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                  <span
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                    lang="EN-US">We are pleased to share with you that
                    Vipin Narang will address the virtual <i>ICAS</i>
                    Fall Symposium <i>Special </i>2024 with a
                    particular emphasis on "The Korean Peninsula Issues
                    and US National Security" on December 16, 2024,
                    Washington DC.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
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                  <font face="Arial,sans-serif">Vipin Narang is the
                    Frank Stanton Professor of Nuclear Security and
                    Political Science and member of the Security Studies
                    Program at the Massachusetts Institute of
                    Technology. From March 2022 through August 2024,
                    Vipin served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary
                    of Defense and then Acting Assistant Secretary of
                    Defense for Space Policy, a portfolio with oversight
                    over the U.S. Department of Defense’s strategic
                    capabilities, including nuclear, space, missile
                    defense, and cyber policy. For his service, Vipin
                    was awarded the Department of Defense Medal for
                    Distinguished Public Service. </font></font><font
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                <font size="5"><font face="Arial,sans-serif">His first
                    book<span> </span><em
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                      Strategy in the Modern Era</em><span> </span>(Princeton
                    University Press, 2014) on the deterrence strategies
                    of regional nuclear powers won the 2015 ISA
                    International Security Studies Section Best Book
                    Award. Vipin's second book<span> </span><a
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                        the Bomb: Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation</em></a><span> </span>was
                    published with Princeton University Press in 2022.
                    His work has appeared in a variety of outlets
                    including<span> </span><em
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                      Security, Journal of Conflict Resolution, The
                      Washington Quarterly, International Organization,
                      Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post,<span> </span></em>and<em
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                      New York Times.</em><span> </span>Vipin was the
                    recipient of the 2020 ISSS Emerging Scholar Award
                    from the International Studies Association awarded
                    to the scholar who “had made the most significant
                    contribution to the field of security studies.”</font><br
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                  <font face="Arial,sans-serif">Professor Narang
                    received his PhD from the Department of Government,
                    Harvard University in 2010. He holds a BS and MS in
                    chemical engineering with distinction from Stanford
                    University and an MPhil with Distinction in
                    international relations from Balliol College, Oxford
                    University, where he studied on a Marshall
                    Scholarship. Vipin has been a fellow at Harvard
                    University’s Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, a
                    predoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer
                    Center for Science and International Affairs, and a
                    Stanton junior faculty fellow at Stanford
                    University’s Center for International Security and
                    Cooperation. His research interests include nuclear
                    proliferation and strategy, North Korea's nuclear
                    weapons, South Asian security, and general security
                    studies.</font></font>
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