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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.

September 30, 2020
Another ‘Quad’ Ministerial in Early October 2020: What Now?
By Ankit Panda

September 25, 2020
Southeast Asia Caught Between the US and China
By Ankit Panda

September 16, 2020
What Can Asia Expect From Suga’s Japan?
By Ankit Panda

September 13, 2020
India and Japan’s Proactive Convergence Continues: The ACSA and Beyond
By Ankit Panda

September 09, 2020
Assessing Abe Shinzo’s Geopolitical Legacy
By Ankit Panda

September 05, 2020
India-China Tensions Spike in the Himalayas
By Ankit Panda

September 03, 2020
Space Security and Geopolitical Competition in the Asia-Pacific
By Ankit Panda

August 26, 2020
Stalemate in the Himalayas: India-China Relations in 2020
By Ankit Panda

August 25, 2020
North Korea Comes to Terms With Internal and External Challenges
By Ankit Panda

August 22, 2020
Esper Heads to the Pacific: What’s on the Agenda?
By Ankit Panda

August 15, 2020
Is the Time Right for Japan to Become Five Eyes’ ‘Sixth Eye’?
By Ankit Panda
