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Kurt Campbell

Advisory Board Member

Associated Research Focus:

Asia
Defense Policy
International Security

Associated Programs:

Cross-Strait Security Initiative
International Security Program
The China Balance Sheet

Expertise:

Broad foreign and defense policy; elements of national strategy; homeland security, international terrorism; the politics and foreign policy problems of Asia; nuclear nonproliferation; implications of globalization for America and the world

Contact:

(202) 457-9413
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Kurt Campbell is CEO of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a venture dedicated to advancing a strong, centrist national security strategy. He concurrently serves as director of the Aspen Strategy Group and as chairman of the Editorial Board of the Washington Quarterly. From 2000 to 2007, he served as senior vice president, director of the International Security Program, and Henry A. Kissinger Chair in National Security Policy at CSIS. Campbell is also founder and principal of StratAsia, a strategic advisory firm focused on Asia. He has been a contributor to the New York Times, an on-air commentator for NPR’s All Things Considered, and a consultant to ABC News. Previously, Dr. Campbell served in several capacities in government, including as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Asia and the Pacific in the Pentagon, director on the National Security Council Staff, deputy special counselor to the president for NAFTA in the White House, and White House fellow at the Department of the Treasury. For his service, he received the Department of Defense Medals for Distinguished Public Service and for Outstanding Public Service. He serves on several boards, including Aegis Capital, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the U.S.-Australian Leadership Dialogue, the Reves Center at the College of William and Mary, STS Technologies, Civitas, the 9/11 Pentagon Memorial Fund, and New Media Strategies. Dr. Campbell is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Wasatch Group, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He was also associate professor of public policy and international relations at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and assistant director of the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. He served as an officer in the U.S. Navy on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and in the Chief of Naval Operations Special Intelligence Unit. Dr. Campbell is coauthor of Hard Power: The New Politics of National Security (Basic, 2006), coeditor of The Nuclear Tipping Point (Brookings, 2004), and principal author of To Prevail: An American Strategy for the Campaign against Terrorism (CSIS, 2001). He has also contributed extensively to journals, magazines, and newspapers. He received his B.A. from the University of California, San Diego, a certificate in music and politics from the University of Erevan in the Soviet Union, and a doctorate in international relations from Oxford University as a Marshall scholar.

 

CSIS Publications by Kurt Campbell


The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Global Climate Change 11/05/2007
The Paths Ahead: Missile Defense in Asia 03/30/2006
Beyond Goldwater-Nichols Phase II Report 07/28/2005
To Prevail 11/01/2001

Kurt Campbell In the News


Mike Green, holder of CSIS's Japan Chair, and Kurt Campbell, member of CSIS's Advisory Board, were quoted by The New York Times, "Turning Bush-Abe Alliance Into Friendship." 04/27/2007
CSIS Senior Vice President Kurt Campbell was quoted by The New York Times, "An Old Presidential Predicament: China Proves Tough to Influence." 04/21/2006
Kurt Campbell, a senior vice president at CSIS, and Michael Green, a senior adviser, were quoted by the Los Angeles Times, "China Leader's Trip May Hit Head Winds." 04/17/2006
CSIS experts and China: The Balance Sheet were featured in an article in Defense News, "U.S. China Experts Predict Agenda for Bush-Hu Summit." 04/13/2006
CSIS Senior Vice President Kurt Campbell was quoted by the Associated Press, "Analysis: Criticism Mounts vs. Rumsfeld." 04/13/2006
CSIS Senior Vice President Kurt Campbell and CSIS Senior Adviser Edward N. Luttwak were quoted in the Washington Post, "U.S. Is Studying Military Strike Options on Iran." 04/09/2006
CSIS Senior Vice President Kurt M. Campbell published an Op-Ed in the Washington Times, "Pentagon Memorial Progress." 03/19/2006
CSIS Senior Vice President Dr. Kurt M. Campbell was quoted by the Associated Press, "Newsview: First-Strike Policy Affirmed." 03/17/2006
CSIS Senior Vice President Kurt M. Campbell was interviewed by the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer regarding the nuclear cooperation deal and the changing US-India relationship. 03/02/2006
CSIS Senior Vice President Kurt M. Campbell was quoted by the Dallas Morning News, "Bush arrives in India amidst period of extraordinary growth." 03/01/2006
CSIS experts Teresita Schaffer, CSIS Senior VP Kurt M. Campbell and Senior Adviser Michael J. Green were quoted by the Christian Science Monitor, "What Bush wants in India." 02/28/2006
CSIS Senior Vice President Dr. Kurt M. Campbell was quoted in the Houston Chronicle, "White House Watch: Congressmen more than ready to pounce on ports deal." 02/25/2006
CSIS Senior Vice President Dr. Kurt M. Campbell was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times, "U.S.-South Korea Relationship Has Soured." 01/17/2006
CSIS Senior Vice President Dr. Kurt M. Campbell and Michael E. O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution published an Op-Ed, "Defeatism and Democrats," in the Washington Times. 12/27/2005
CSIS Senior Vice President Kurt M. Campbell published an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal Asia, "The Symbolism Behind a Meaningless Summit." 12/09/2005
CSIS Senior Vice President Kurt Campbell was interviewed by The Boston Globe, "Tensions stir ahead of Bush's China visit." 11/14/2005
CSIS' Kurt Campbell Op-Ed, "The Twin Challenges of U.S. Foreign Policy," The Boston Globe. 10/25/2005
CSIS’ Kurt Campbell on CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight 10/18/2005
CSIS’ Kurt Campbell Appeared on CNN 09/20/2005
The Democrat Armed 07/06/2005
Asia Needs a Trilateral Dialogue 05/25/2005
The Nuclear Tipping Point 12/29/2004
Asia's Anxieties Are a Warning to America 10/29/2004
U.S. Turns Its Gaze from Asia at Its Peril 06/22/2004
Military Medals and Pentagon Medllers 12/19/2003
Globalization's First War? 11/25/2002
America and Europe: Memos to a President, Aspen Strategy Group Report 07/30/2002
In 1941, Too, a Wounded, Unprepared America Cast About for Blame 07/27/2002
Globalization at War 10/22/2001
Koizumi as Japan's Reagan 08/23/2001
U.S. Begins to Warm Up to China 08/05/2001
US Alliances and Military Challenges in East Asia 07/19/2001
The Pendulous Peace in East Asia: The Cusp of Strategic Change in Asia 06/25/2001
Power Houses 06/22/2001
Bush's First 100 Days in Asia 05/10/2001
Edging Taiwan in from the Cold 04/25/2001
Korean Changes, Asian Challenges and the U.S. Role 04/25/2001
Old Game, New Risks 04/08/2001
A Strategic Embrace in Trouble 03/22/2001
The Last Superpower Ponders its Next Move 02/10/2001
U.S. Policy Turning Toward Asia 01/25/2001
Filling in the Dots 01/14/2001
The United States and Japan: Advancing Toward a Mature Partnership 10/16/2000
What Uncle Sam Needs Now is a Few Good Page-Turners 10/01/2000
Energizing the US-Japan Security Partnership 09/27/2000
Vacationers, Beware the Ides of August 08/06/2000

Testimony by Kurt Campbell


Kurt Campbell: Foreign Policy and National Security Just Became Twice as Hard 09/27/2005
New Strategic Challenges: The Age of Asian Anxiety 02/02/2005
Chinas New Prominence in Asia 09/11/2003
 

 

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