In addition to popular analysis and commentary, I’ve authored and coauthored several academic papers, book chapters, think tank reports, and longer policy papers.
My interests are varied. As of early 2019, I’m focused on nuclear and conventional force developments in Asia, missile defense, and nuclear strategy in my capacity as adjunct senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists. I’m also working on a longer project on North Korean nuclear forces and strategy based on my work as a journalist and policy analyst.
A selection of my publications is listed below.
- Rahul Sagar & Ankit Panda (2015) Pledges and Pious Wishes: The Constituent Assembly Debates and the Myth of a “Nehruvian Consensus”, India Review, 14:2, 203-220, DOI: 10.1080/14736489.2015.1030197
- Srinjoy Bose & Ankit Panda (2016) Indian and Chinese foreign policy imperatives and strategies vis-à-vis Afghanistan, India Review, 15:4, 379-406, DOI: 10.1080/14736489.2016.1235939
- Christopher Clary & Ankit Panda (2017) Safer at Sea? Pakistan’s Sea-Based Deterrent and Nuclear Weapons Security, The Washington Quarterly, 40:3, 149-168, DOI: 10.1080/0163660X.2017.1370344
- Takashi Inoguchi & Ankit Panda (2017) ‘Japan’s Grand Strategy in the South China Sea: Principled Pragmatism’ in Corr Anders (ed.). Great Powers, Grand Strategies, The New Game in the South China Sea. US Naval Institute Press; 2017.
- Ankit Panda (2019) Pakistan’s Approach to Navigating the Saudi-Iranian Split, United States Institute of Peace, Special Report, February 12, 2019, https://www.usip.org/publications/2019/02/pakistans-approach-navigating-saudi-iranian-split.
- I’ve also contributed chapters on U.S. foreign policy, North Korean nuclear strategy, and Japanese security policy to the International Institute for Strategic Studies’s Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment 2017, Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment 2018, and Strategic Survey 2017: The Annual Assessment of Geopolitics.