William M. Drennan
Deputy Director, Research and Studies Program
(July 1998-July 2004)
Northeast Asia and Korean Peninsula • U.S.–South Korea Alliance • South Korean Politics • North Korea and Nuclear Weapons
ARCHIVED SPECIALIST PROFILE
Background
William M. Drennan is deputy director of the Institute's Research and Studies Program, specializing in Korean issues. A retired colonel in the United States Air Force (USAF), he was a senior military fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University in 1995–98. He taught national security policy at the National War College, was a military fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in 1990–91, and served with U.S. forces in Korea in 1988–90.
In the mid-1980s, he was a squadron commander and later the deputy commander for operations of a USAF flight training wing. In 1981–84, he served as the Air Force aide to President Ronald Reagan. Drennan's publications include "Nuclear Weapons and North Korea: Who's Coercing Whom?" in The United States and Coercive Diplomacy; "North Korea's Non-Military Threats," East Asia; A Comprehensive Resolution of the Korean War, an Institute Special Report; "The United States and Asia in 2000: Forward to the Past?" co-authored with Richard H. Solomon, Asian Survey; "Koreapolitik" (with James Goodby) and "The Impact of Korean Local Elections," Strategic Forum; The Korean Peninsula in Strategic Assessment 1997: Flashpoints and Force Structure; "Prospects and Implications of Korean Unification," Policy Forum Online; "The U.S. Role in Korean Unification," Korea and World Affairs; and Mistrust and the Korean Peninsula: Dangers of Miscalculation, an Institute Special Report. Drennan is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, holds an M.A. from Georgetown University, and has done doctoral work at Catholic University.
Available on usip.org
- The United States and Coercive Diplomacy
USIP Press, June 2003 (Contributor)
- The U.S.-ROK Alliance at Fifty: Continuity, Change, and Implications for the Future
USIP Conference, May 2003 (Summary & Audio)
- A Comprehensive Resolution of the Korean War
Special Report, April 2003
- North Korean Nukes, South Korean Strain
Peace Watch, February 2003
- Crises on the Korean Peninsula
January 2003 (Summary, Audio & Video)
- North Korea's Nuclear Posture: Policy Options for the United States
USIPeace Briefing, December 2002
- The Institute Welcomes New Directors
Peace Watch, April 2002
- "Securing Peace in Northeast Asia" in Passing the Baton: Challenges of Statecraft for the New Administration (Peaceworks, 2001)
- North Korean Negotiating Behavior
Current Issues Briefing, February 2000 (Video)
- Mistrust and the Korean Peninsula: Dangers of Miscalculation
Special Report, October 1998
