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India-Pakistan Ties Are Warming—but Don't Get Excited Just Yet
Sep 27, 2022
Derek Grossman
Senior Defense Analyst
Santa Monica Office
Education
B.A. in Political Science and Asian Studies, University of Michigan; M.A. in U.S. National Security Policy, Georgetown University
Media Resources
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Derek Grossman is a senior defense analyst at the RAND Corporation focused on a range of national security policy and Indo-Pacific security issues. He closely tracks intensifying U.S.-China competition throughout the region, to include in Northeast, Southeast, South, and Central Asia as well as Oceania. He has led or participated in numerous RAND studies assessing regional responses to competition, with a particular emphasis on Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Pacific Island states, Philippines, Vietnam, and Taiwan.
Grossman is widely quoted regionally and globally. He has interviewed with Australian Broadcasting Corp, BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, LA Times, New York Times, NPR, Sydney Morning Herald, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and others. Grossman has published dozens of commentaries and journal articles, including for Asia Policy, Foreign Policy, International Security, Nikkei Asia, Strategic Studies Quarterly, Studies in Intelligence, The Diplomat, The Hill, War on the Rocks, and World Politics Review.
Before RAND, Grossman served over a decade in the Intelligence Community, where he served as the daily intelligence briefer to the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and to the assistant secretary of defense for Asian & Pacific Security Affairs. He also served at the National Security Agency and worked at the CIA on the President's Daily Brief staff.
Grossman is an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California and an Indo-Pacific Fellow at the Perth USAsia Centre. He holds an M.A. from Georgetown University in U.S. national security policy and a B.A. from the University of Michigan in political science and Asian studies.
Research Focus
Recent Projects
- Conflict with China Revisited
Selected Publications
Derek Grossman, Michael Chase, "Why Xi is Purging the Chinese Military," The National Interest, 2016
Derek Grossman, "Book Review - Asia's Next Contest," The Journal of International Security Affairs, (26), 2014
Derek Grossman, "Despite Promising Signs, China's North Korea Policy Unchanged," The Cipher Brief, 2017
Derek Grossman, "Can Vietnam's Military Stand Up to China in the South China Sea?" Asia Policy, 13(1), 2018
Recent Media Appearances
Interviews: ABC News Australia, The World Today; BBC Radio; Channel News Asia; CNBC; Here and There, Santa Fe Public Radio; International Daily News; Monocle; Radio Free Asia; The Red Line; Republic World, India; VOV News Online; Voice of America; WFED; VOA Indonesia
