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Robert Manning

Robert Manning

Robert A. Manning is a distinguished fellow at the Stimson Center and its Strategic Foresight and China Programs. Previously, he was senior fellow with the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security and its Foresight, Strategy and Risks Initiative at the Atlantic Council (2013-2022).

He served as senior strategist for the director of national intelligence’s National Counterproliferation Center. and director, long-range energy and regional/global affairs, US National Intelligence Council, Strategic Futures Group, 2008-2012. Before that, at the Department of State he served as a member of the secretary of state’s policy planning staff and as senior counselor for energy, technology and science policy. From 1997-2001, he was director of Asian studies and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He led several of the Council’s task forces, including the Korea Task Force and The Southeast Asia Task Force. He was previously an adviser for policy and public diplomacy to the assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs. From 1988-1989, he was an adviser to the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

His publications include the books “The Asian Energy Factor” and “China, Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control;” essays on nuclear weapons; numerous journal articles on international energy and Asian security issues; and more than half a dozen book chapters in edited volumes on China, Korea, Japan, regional security architecture, energy and energy security. In addition, he has written several other books on geopolitics and global trends.