Center for a New American Security

Zachary Hosford is the Bacevich Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). His research at CNAS centers on Asia-Pacific security issues and U.S. defense policy, including weapons acquisition strategy and nuclear weapons policy. Some of his recent work has focused on the future of the U.S.-Japan alliance, maritime disputes in the East and South China Seas, China’s military modernization, the U.S.-China nuclear relationship, South Korean defense capabilities and priorities, North Korea’s nuclear weapons programs and Aum Shinrikyo’s efforts to create chemical and biological weapons. He also serves as the coordinator for CNAS’s Next Generation National Security Leaders program, aimed at identifying and assembling a diverse, bipartisan group of top young analysts and practitioners to think creatively about U.S. national security issues.

He previously served as the Special Assistant to the two co-founders of the organization, Kurt Campbell and Michèle Flournoy and prior to joining CNAS, Hosford held positions at the Arms Control Association in Washington, DC and – through a program organized by George Mason University – at the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Hosford earned his M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and his B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, where he majored in Scientific and Philosophical Studies of the Mind and minored in Astronomy.

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