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Patrick M. Cronin
Dr. Patrick M. Cronin,
ICAS Fellow, is a Senior Advisor and Senior Director of the
Asia-Pacific Security Program at the Center
for a New American Security (CNAS). Previously, Patrick was the Director of the Institute for National Strategic
studies (INSS) at National Defense University and has a distinguished career inside government and academic
research centers, spanning defense affairs, foreign policy, and development assistance. He served more than two
years at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), where Patrick was the Director of
Studies, Editor of the Adelphi Papers, and Executive Director of the Armed Conflict Database. Prior to joining IISS,
Patrick was Director of Research and Senior Vice President at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
(CSIS) in Washington, D.C. In 2001, he was confirmed by the Senate to the third-ranking position at the U.S. Agency
for International Development. From 1998 until 2001, Patrick served as Director of Research at the U.S. Institute
of Peace. Patrick spent seven years at the National Defense University, arriving at INSS in 1990 as a Senior Research
Professor covering Asian and long-range security issues. He was the founding Executive Editor of Joint Force Quarterly,
and subsequently became both Deputy Director and Director of Research at the Institute. Patrick has also been a
senior analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses, a U.S. Naval Reserve Intelligence officer, and an analyst with the
Congressional Research Service and SRI International. He has taught at several universities, including Georgetown
University’s Security Studies Program, The Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International
Studies (SAIS), and the University of Virginia’s Woodrow Wilson Department of Government.
Patrick read International Relations at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, where he received both his M.Phil.
and D.Phil. degrees. Among his numerous reports at CNAS, Patrick is the author of
Vital Venture: The Economic
Engagement of North Korea and the Kaesong Industrial Complex (2012) and
Restraint: Recalibrating American
Strategy (2010), as well as the editor and contributing author of
Cooperation from Strength: The United States,
China and the South China Sea (2012). Among his earlier major publications are:
Global Strategic Assessment, 2009:
America’s Security Role in a Changing World (NDU Press 2009);
The Impenetrable Fog of War: Reflections on
Modern Warfare and Strategic Surprise (Praeger 2008);
The Evolution of Strategic Thought: Adelphi Paper
Classics (Routledge 2008); and
Double Trouble: Iran and North Korea as Challenges to International Security
(Praeger 2007).
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