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The Meaning of Camp David and the

New Unholy Alliance

Victor Cha

Dr. Victor Cha is senior vice president and Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic
and International Studies and Distinguished University Professor, D.S. Song-KF
Chairholder, and Professor of Government in the Department of Government and
School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington DC. He is
an award-winning author, and has written seven books and many distinguished
articles. His most recent book is Korea: A New History of South and North (Yale
University Press, 2023) co-authored with Ramon Pacheco Pardo. Dr. Cha was
appointed in 2021 by the Biden administration to serve on the Defense Policy
Board in an advisory role to the Secretary of Defense. He formerly served on
the White House National Security Council and was also the Deputy Head of
Delegation for the United States at the Six Party Talks in Beijing, receiving two
Outstanding Service commendations during his tenure at the NSC. Dr. Cha is a
two-time Fulbright Scholar, former Olin Fellow at Harvard University, and former
Hoover, CISAC, and Koret Fellow at Stanford University. Dr. Cha received his Ph.D.
in Political Science at Columbia University, MIA from Columbia, B.A. Honors in
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University, and A.B. in Economics
from Columbia.

Section III : South Korea-Japan-U.S. Cooperation: How to Deter Pyongyang and Dissuade Beijing