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Nirav Patel

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Related Topics: WMD and Nuclear Proliferation
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Nirav Patel is a Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) where he oversees the Center’s Asia Initiative '09 projects. Prior to working at CNAS, Patel was a research analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies where he focused on global proliferation syndicates and non-proliferation strategy. He has contributed to numerous journals and his writings have appeared in dozens of newspapers around the world, including The Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Straits Times, and Asia Times. He is also a guest author to the South Asia Analysts Group and is a frequent commentator on international security issues for both TV and print media. Patel holds an M.A. in international security studies from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service.

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  • China's Arrival: A Strategic Framework for a Global Relationship
    China's Arrival: A Strategic Framework for a Global Relationship
    Type of Publication: Report
    Date: 09/22/2009

    China’s rise is one of the most significant geopolitical events in modern history, with important ramifications for U.S. interests, regional power balances, and the international order. As the Obama administration confronts a broad set of worldwide challenges, questions remain as to how the United States should engage China amidst uncertainty about its long-term intentions and how to balance this important relationship against concerns regarding China’s behavior in the international community.

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  • No Illusions: Regaining the Strategic Initiative with North Korea
    No Illusions: Regaining the Strategic Initiative with North Korea
    Type of Publication: Working Papers
    Date: 06/11/2009

    Pyongyang has spoken: North Korea has chosen the path of confrontation. Despite a series of agreements orchestrated by the Clinton and Bush administrations, North Korea has made no progress toward engagement and denuclearization, and has abdicated its commitments to the international community.

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  • Uncharted Waters: The U.S. Navy and Navigating Climate Change
    Uncharted Waters: The U.S. Navy and Navigating Climate Change
    Type of Publication: Working Papers
    Date: 03/30/2009

    In the summer of 2008, Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Gary Roughead, asked the Center for a New American Security to conduct a brief survey of the challenges global climate change may pose for the U.S. Navy over the next 30 years.

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  • The United States and the Asia-Pacific Region: Security Strategy for the Obama Administration
    Type of Publication: Report
    Date: 02/24/2009

    February 2009 - Ongoing shifts in geopolitical power from West to East make the Asia-Pacific region more important to the United States today than ever before. The region is already an engine of the global economy, and major Asian countries are becoming global economic and political actors. Yet, as Asia’s importance has grown over the last decade, Washington has often been focused elsewhere. The Obama administration needs a more active approach to the Asia-Pacific region that recognizes the new geopolitical realities and positions the United States to deal effectively with the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.

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  • Going Global: The Future of the U.S.-South Korea Alliance
    Type of Publication: Report
    Date: 02/23/2009

    February 2009 - The United States and the Republic of Korea (ROK) have one of the most formidable and durable military alliances in the world. This alliance has preserved peace and stability in Northeast Asia and ensured nuclear restraint among Asian powers. It has weathered extreme domestic unpopularity in South Korea and pressures to reduce U.S. overseas defense obligations. 

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  • The Ripple Effect: China's Responses to the Iraq War
    Type of Publication: Working Papers
    Date: 10/15/2008

    America’s military intervention in Iraq has catalyzed major changes in the Middle East, but the ramifications of its military campaigns around the world, particularly in Asia, remain understudied. This is most evident in China where strategists and policymakers are attempting to articulate how Chinese power and influence should be exerted in this strategic environment. Chinese officials, strategists, and academics have followed the Iraq war very carefully; however, their views have yet to be thoroughly explored.

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  • The Ripple Effect: India's Responses to the Iraq War
    Type of Publication: Working Papers
    Date: 10/15/2008

    America’s military intervention in Iraq has catalyzed major changes in the Middle East, but the ramifications of its military campaigns around the world, particularly in Asia, remain understudied. Throughout major capitals in Asia discussions relating to America’s staying power and influence are becoming more pronounced.

    Many of these debates are playing out in India, where strategists and policymakers grapple with similar security challenges in Pakistan. As Pakistan teeters on the edge of disaster, India is faced with the blowback of Islamabad’s inability to control terrorist groups within its own borders and the prospects of outward proliferation of nuclear technologies to rogue regimes or non-state actors. Despite these grave security challenges, an adequate assessment of how America’s involvement in Iraq has shaped Indian strategic assessments and policies has not occurred.
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  • CNAS Report -- The Ripple Effect: Japan
    The Ripple Effect: Japan's Responses to the Iraq War
    Type of Publication: Working Papers
    Date: 10/15/2008

    America’s military intervention in Iraq has catalyzed major changes in the Middle East, but the ramifications of its military campaigns around the world, particularly in Asia, remain understudied. Throughout major capitals in Asia discussions relating to America’s staying power and influence are becoming more pronounced.

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  • The Power of Balance: America in iAsia
    Type of Publication: Report
    Date: 06/11/2008

    As the tides of influence and power shift from Atlantic to Pacific shores – propelled by the remarkable ascents of China and India and the economic growth of an entire region that now accounts for over 30 percent of global GDP – America must reassert its strategic presence in Asia. 
    Unfortunately, many strategists shape policies toward the region through either a Cold War or anti-terrorism lens; both are limited in dealing with Asian dynamism. The region must be described in creative and forward-looking terms –Kurt Campbell and his team from the Center for a New American Security deem it iAsia – and U.S. strategy must be made anew to match.

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  • U.S.-South Korea Relations: Rekindling an Alliance Flame
    Type of Publication: Policy Brief
    Date: 04/06/2008

    The honeymoon between Washington and Seoul will not last long without more harmony on the most important issue for the relationship: North Korean denuclearization.

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  • U.S. Calls on China for 'Strategic Reassurance'
    Type: News Item
    Source: VOA News

    September 24, 2009 — September 24, 2009 - During a conference launching CNAS's new report China's Arrival, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg called on China to provide "strategic reassurance" to the U.S. "Just as we and our allies must make clear that we are prepared to welcome China's arrival as a prosperous and successful power, China must reassure the rest of the world that its development and growing global role will not come at the expense of security and well-being of others," said Steinberg.

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  • U.S. Says Hopes Tire Dispute Does Not Spark Trade War
    Type: News Item
    Source: Reuters

    September 24, 2009 — September 24, 2009 - In his keynote address at the launch of CNAS's new report China's Arrival: A Strategic Framework for a Global Relationship, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg discussed a dispute over tire imports from China. "U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg said on Thursday he believed that China and the United States did not want a trade dispute on tires to spark a trade war."

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  • Deeper Relationship with China Urged
    Type: News Item
    Source: AP

    September 22, 2009 — September 22, 2009 - CNAS released a major report on U.S.-China relations. AP reporter Barry Schweid writes about the strategic influence of the report: "The Center for a New American Security, in a study prepared by a panel of 10 academics, declared Tuesday that the first principle of China policy should be: 'China should not be treated as a threat.'"

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  • Report Reveals New Options for Dealing with North Korea
    Type: News Item
    Source: Examiner

    July 24, 2009 — July 24, 2009 - Van Jackson, Asia reporter for the Examiner, discusses the recently-released CNAS report on North Korea and its "novel" recommendation for building a regional security mechanism such as the Five-Party Talks. "North Korea’s current unwillingness to return to the Six-Party Talks framework actually opens a window of opportunity to initiate a coordinating mechanism such as the Five-Party Talks."

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  • Five-Way Talks May Exclude North Korea
    Type: News Item
    Source: UPI Asia

    June 23, 2009 — June 23, 2009 - UPI Asia cites CNAS's recently-released report on North Korea and its argument that the "proposed five-party dialogue could help the Obama administration achieve two strategic goals – strengthening its commitment to Northeast Asian allies and denuclearizing the Korean peninsula."

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  • Five-Party Talks 'Viable Option'
    Type: News Item
    Source: The Korea Herald

    June 18, 2009 — June 18, 2009 - The Korea Herald cites the recently released CNAS report on North Korea and its recommendations to the Obama Administration on how to strategically manage the North Korea crisis.

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  • Will Offshore Searches Slow North Korean Nukes?
    Type: News Item
    Source: Time Magazine

    June 17, 2009 — June 17, 2009 - TIME Magazine cites the new CNAS report on the North Korea crisis in a recent analysis. "While North Korea's most recent aggression has not yet led to violent outbreaks in the region, such clashes are a distinct possibility in the near future," says the report.

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  • 2009 CNAS Report Urges U.S. to Regain Strategic Initiative with North Korea
    Type: Press Release

    Washington, D.C., June 16, 2009 — WASHINGTON, D.C., JUNE 16, 2009 - The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) has released a new report on North Korea, available now on the CNAS website. The report, titled No Illusions: Regaining the Strategic Initiative with North Korea, offers recommendations for how the Obama Administration can manage the North Korea crisis.

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  • Small Wars Journal: Assessing Prospects for U.S.-China-Afghanistan Cooperation
    Type: News Item
    Source: Small Wars Journal:

    April 1, 2009 — April 1, 2009 - Nirav Patel, CNAS' Bacevich Fellow, and David Capezza, a CNAS consultant, write about the role China can play in helping the United States stabilize Afghanistan and enhance development in the country. "If America is to succeed in Afghanistan it must begin to think beyond how Europe fits into the equation and start a process of better integrating emerging powers, particularly China into its strategic process," they write.

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  • World Politics Review: The Future of the U.S.-South Korea Alliance
    Type: News Item
    Source: World Politics Review

    March 31, 2009 — March 31, 2009 - Nirav Patel, CNAS' Bacevich Fellow, writes in World Politics Review about the future of the military alliance between the United States and the Republic of Korea. "The U.S.-ROK alliance has the potential to be one of the bedrock partnerships of U.S. and international security for decades to come, one of intrinsic rather than narrowly strategic value," Patel writes.

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  • Asia-Pacific Security
    Asia-Pacific Security

    Asia’s strong response to the worldwide economic crisis, its burgeoning military modernization programs and growing integration are evidence of Asia’s expanding global power and American strategists must articulate a comprehensive and forward-looking strategy to deal with the complexities of this increasingly vital region.

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  • China's Arrival: The Long March to Global Power
    September 24, 2009 - 9:00am - 11:45am
    Willard InterContinental Hotel's Grand Ballroom
    Washington, District of Columbia

    The Center for a New American Security hosted The Honorable James B. Steinberg, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, at an event marking the launch of CNAS' new report, China's Arrival: A Strategic Framework for a Global Relationship. The report examines the ever expanding U.S.-China relationship and proposes a strategy for future engagement.

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  • General David Petraeus
    Striking a Balance: A New American Security
    June 11, 2009 - 7:45am - 7:00pm
    Willard InterContinental Hotel
    Washington, District of Columbia

    Striking a Balance: A New American Security was an all-day CNAS conference highlighting the major foreign policy and national security challenges facing our nation in the critical time ahead.

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