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Daniel M. Kliman


Daniel M. Kliman is a Transatlantic Fellow for Asia at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). He is also completing a book on the management of rising powers. Before joining GMF, Kliman was a visiting fellow at the Center for a New American Security. Kliman received his Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University. He has served as a Japan Policy Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and an Adjunct Research Associate with the Institute for Defense Analyses. He has also held positions at the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Kliman has authored one book, Japan’s Security Strategy in the Post-9/11 World, and has published op-eds in the The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal Asia Edition, Foreignpolicy.com, CNN.com, The Diplomat, and other major news outlets. He also makes regular media appearances and can speak on a variety of topics including the international relations of Asia, rising powers, and U.S. foreign policy. Kliman graduated from Stanford University, where he studied political science and economics. He speaks fluent Japanese, and, on a good day, is conversant in basic Chinese. A proud Californian, Kliman was born and raised in Santa Barbara.

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News Articles

The Last Kim of Pyongyang?January 19, 2012

It's not ridiculous to think that North Korea could take a page from Myanmar and make a shocking U-turn toward democracy.

At the G20, Look to the Swing StatesNovember 02, 2011

As the leaders from the 20 largest economies gather this week in Cannes,observers will note the difficulties in forging consensus. But this G20 summit will highlight another challenge to coordinated international action....

Bingde Comes to WashingtonMay 18, 2011In a week dominated by news of the IMF director’s apparently sordid behavior, continued Middle East unrest, and the fallout of the United States’ successful military operation in the now infamous Pakistani city of Abbottabad, the U.S. hosting of China’s top general has received comparatively little media attention.
What Future for Japan?May 11, 2011The devastation wrought by the Great Tohoku Earthquake has reinforced perceptions inside and outside Japan of the country’s seemingly irreversible slide from economic superpower to sick man of Asia. Yet it would be premature to count Japan out as a factor in international politics.
Will China’s Rise Spoil the Trans-Atlantic Relationship?November 30, -0001
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