Patrick M. Cronin
Director, Research and Studies Program
(March 1998-August 2001)
Asia-Pacific security • Japan • Korea • China •
Southeast Asia • Europe • Negotiation and mediation •
civil-military relations • Terrorism and low-intensity conflict
• U.S. national security and foreign policy • Human
rights
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Background
Patrick M. Cronin directs the Institute's Research and Studies
Program and currently leads a study on coercive diplomacy. He also
manages major projects on cross-cultural negotiation, political
violence and terrorism, integrated civilian-military planning, and
human rights. Prior to joining the Institute, he was at the National
Defense University's Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS),
where he served as deputy director, director of research, and head of
Asian Studies. He helped create Joint Force Quarterly, the
journal of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and
subsequently served as the journal's first executive editor. He
received the U.S. Army's Civilian Meritorious Service Award and held
a commission as an officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve. Cronin is on
the editorial advisory board of International Studies
Perspectives and the International Journal of Korean
Studies, and he is the former associate editor of Strategic
Review. He is an elected board member of the Council for Security
Cooperation in the Asia Pacific, as well as a long-time member of the
Institute for International Strategic Studies, London. Cronin has
lectured and published widely on an array of U.S. foreign policy
topics. His published works include The U.S.-Japan Alliance: Past,
Present and Future (1999), 2015: Power and Progress
(1996), Redefining the U.S.-Japan Alliance (1994), and From
Globalism to Regionalism: New Perspectives on U.S. Foreign and
Defense Policies (1993). Cronin conducts regular interviews with
major domestic and international media -- including CNN, BBC, and the
Financial Times -- and his op-eds have appeared in the Washington
Post, Los Angeles Times, Singapore Straits Times,
and Newsday. For seven years, Cronin was an adjunct professor
at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and he
also taught at the University of Virginia. Cronin holds M.Phil. and
D.Phil. degrees in international relations from Oxford University,
England.
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