Philip Saunders
Senior Research Fellow
Institute for National Strategic Studies
Dr. Philip Saunders joins the INSS Research Directorate from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, where for the last four years he served as Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, and taught courses on Chinese politics, Chinese foreign policy, and East Asian security. Dr. Saunders has conducted research and consulted on East Asian security issues for the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, the Council on Foreign Relations, RAND, and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Dr. Saunders will focus on China and East Asian security studies for the INSS Research Directorate. He received his Ph.D. in International Relations from the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. Dr. Saunders served as an officer in the United States Air Force from 1989-1993, working on Asian security issues at the Pentagon.