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Ankit Panda

Ankit Panda

Ankit Panda is editor-at-large at The Diplomat and 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 PostForeign AffairsForeign Policy, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Diplomat, the Atlantic, the New Republic, the South China Morning PostWar 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.

Posts by Ankit Panda
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October 29, 2019

Indian Nuclear Power Facility Denies Unverified Reports of a Cyber Attack

By Ankit Panda
Authorities at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant pushed back on reports of a cyber intrusion.
October 29, 2019

Pompeo Drops the Niceties on the Quad: What Now?

By Ankit Panda
Has the U.S. secretary of state laid bare what the “quad” truly intends?

October 21, 2019

Nepal Between China and India

By Ankit Panda
Tika P. Dhakal discusses Nepal’s geopolitical circumstances between India and China.

October 22, 2019

India’s Economic Headwind Problem and Rising Nationalism

By Ankit Panda
What is the relationship between increasing nationalist assertion by India and growing economic headwinds?

October 21, 2019

South Korea Set to Receive Additional F-35s in 2020 Amid North Korean Complaints

By Ankit Panda
The fighters, a cornerstone of South Korea's aerial strike capabilities, will elevate tensions with North Korea.
October 21, 2019

Play The Diplomat’s Quiz: October 20, 2019, Edition

By Ankit Panda
Test your knowledge of the Asia-Pacific region with The Diplomat's weekly news quiz!

October 21, 2019

The Second ‘Informal Summit’ Is Done. Now for the Hard Part in India-China Ties

By Ankit Panda
The optics of the latest “informal summit” aside, India and China remain worlds apart on major issues.
October 18, 2019

US Approves Sale of Air-to-Air Missiles to South Korea

By Ankit Panda
South Korea has been approved to purchase 120 AIM-120C-7/C-8 missiles.

October 17, 2019

Kim Jong Un’s Horseback Stunt Is No Laughing Matter

By Ankit Panda
Kim Jong Un's latest photo-op might inspire laughs, but it's an important sign.

October 15, 2019

Turkish Modernization of Pakistan’s Agosta 90B Submarines Continues

By Ankit Panda
The submarines will be modernized over the next three years.

October 15, 2019

China’s Xi Visits Nepal, Elevating Ties to ‘Strategic Partnership of Cooperation’

By Ankit Panda
The visit marked the highest-level China-Nepal interaction in 23 years.
October 14, 2019

Play The Diplomat’s Quiz: October 13, 2019, Edition

By Ankit Panda
Test your knowledge of the Asia-Pacific region with The Diplomat's weekly news quiz!

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