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Paul F. Chamberlin

Adjunct Fellow

Associated Research Focus:

Asia
International Security
Defense Policy
Trade & Economics
Demography & Population

Associated Programs:

International Security Program

Expertise:

North/South Korea; military strategy/doctrine; Korean culture and implications for political decisionmaking; political risk analysis; strategic forecasting

Contact:

(571) 235-6003
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Paul Chamberlin has broad expertise on issues related to South and North Korea, U.S. relationships with both Koreas, and U.S. strategy for Northeast Asia. He has extensive practical experience in the area (including living for six years in South Korea), as a U.S. Army foreign area (political-military) officer for Northeast Asia, scholar, CSIS adjunct fellow, and business consultant. As a U.S. Army officer, he served in diplomatic, intelligence, operational, and political-military policy planning positions in South Korea and the United States, including: military (and acting naval) attaché to Korea, political-military adviser to the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, member of the U.S. government’s interagency policy team for the first North Korean nuclear crisis in the early 1990s, and chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s North Korea military capabilities section. He has been a CSIS adjunct fellow since 1993. Chamberlin is an honor graduate of the Defense Language Institute’s Korea language program, a distinguished military graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, and he holds a master of human relations degree from the University of Oklahoma. His military decorations include the Republic of Korea (ROK) National Security Medal (Samil), approved by the ROK president, and the U.S. Army Legion of Merit. News organizations that have sought his views include ABC Nightline, CNN, CNN International, FOX News Radio, Radio Free Asia, Voice of America, Al Jazeera, BBC, Korean Broadcasting System, Korea Times, and Yonhap News.

Other Paul Chamberlin's publications

CSIS Publications by Paul F. Chamberlin


Strategy and Sentiment: South Korean Views of the United States and the U.S.-ROK Alliance 06/01/2004
Unified Korea's Major Institutions 08/31/2002
Korea 2010: The Challenges of the New Millennium 09/30/2001
High Technology Development in Korea: A Comparison of the Use of Capital Markets in Korea and the United States 10/16/1998
 

 

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