Bruce W. Bennett is an adjunct senior international/defense researcher at RAND and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He is an expert in Northeast Asian security issues, having visited the region about 130 times and written much about Korean security issues. His research addresses the North Korean military and especially nuclear threats, understanding and shaping the ongoing Korean crises, countering North Korean nuclear and conventional coercion, preparing for and dealing with a North Korean collapse and/or Korean unification, the Korean military balance, and managing third party intervention in Korea. He has also worked on the Persian/Arab Gulf region.
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