James W. Borton

James W. Borton

Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Institute, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
James Borton is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University and the author of Dispatches from the South China Sea: Navigating to Common Ground.

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