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Ankit Panda
Ankit Panda is the Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Follow him on Twitter.
Ankit Panda is the Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. An expert on the Asia-Pacific region, his research interests range from nuclear strategy, arms control, missile defense, nonproliferation, emerging technologies, and U.S. extended deterrence. He is the author of Kim Jong Un and the Bomb: Survival and Deterrence in North Korea (Hurst Publishers/Oxford University Press, 2020).
Panda was previously an adjunct senior fellow in the Defense Posture Project at the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) and a member of the 2019 FAS International Study Group on North Korea Policy. He has consulted for the United Nations in New York and Geneva on nonproliferation and disarmament matters, and has testified on security topics related to South Korea and Japan before the congressionally chartered U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
Panda was a Korea Society Kim Koo Fellow, a German Marshall Fund Young Strategist, an International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Shangri-La Dialogue Young Leader, and a Carnegie Council on Ethics in International Affairs New Leader. He has worked at the Council on Foreign Relations and the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.
A widely published writer, Panda’s work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Diplomat, the Atlantic, the New Republic, the South China Morning Post, War on the Rocks, Politico, and the National Interest. Panda has also published in scholarly journals, including Survival, the Washington Quarterly, and India Review, and has contributed to the IISS Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment and Strategic Survey. He is editor-at-large at the Diplomat, where he hosts the Asia Geopolitics podcast, and a contributing editor at War on the Rocks.

February 25, 2021
The Disengagement at Pangong Lake: What Happens Now Between India and China?
By Ankit Panda

February 05, 2021
Myanmar After the 2021 Coup: Internal Security and Geopolitical Consequences
By Ankit Panda

January 26, 2021
The Indian Army’s Pivot to the North
By Ankit Panda

January 14, 2021
Elections in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan: What Next?
By Ankit Panda

December 17, 2020
Afghanistan, Central Asia, and the Coming Biden Presidency
By Ankit Panda

December 01, 2020
South Asia and the Coming Biden Presidency
By Ankit Panda

November 20, 2020
Southeast Asia and the Coming Biden Presidency
By Ankit Panda

November 14, 2020
China and the Coming Biden Presidency
By Ankit Panda

October 29, 2020
Denuclearization, Diplomacy, and Beyond: North Korea Plans for 2021
By Ankit Panda

October 20, 2020
The Pandemic and Power Shifts in Asia
By Ankit Panda

October 19, 2020
Australia Returns to the Malabar Exercise
By Ankit Panda
