Hachigian, Nina L. 1967-

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Hachigian, Nina L. 1967-

PERSONAL:

Born May 16, 1967. Education: Yale University, B.S.; Stanford University Law School, J.D.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Los Angeles, CA. E-mail—nhachigian@americanprogress.org.

CAREER:

Writer, attorney. Center for American Progress, Los Angeles, CA, senior vice president; worked for the U.S. National Security Council, Washington, DC, special assistant to Jim Steinberg, the Deputy National Security Advisor, and National Security Advisor Samuel R. Berger, 1998-99; RAND Corporation, senior political scientist; director for the Center for Asia-Pacific Policy; served as an attorneyadvisor to U.S. Chair Robert Pitofsky at the Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC; O'Melveny & Myers, Los Angeles, attorney; Ninth Circuit Court, Los Angeles, clerk. Visiting scholar at the Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation.

MEMBER:

Asia Society of Southern California (advisory board member), Council on Foreign Relations.

AWARDS, HONORS:

International affairs fellowship, Council on Foreign Relations.

WRITINGS:

(Editor, with Cheryl Bernard) Khaled M. Abou El Fadl, Democracy and Islam in the New Constitution of Afghanistan, Rand (Santa Monica, CA), 2003.

(With Lily Wu) The Information Revolution in Asia, National Defense Research Institute (Santa Monica, CA), 2003.

(With Mona Sutphen) The Next American Century: How the U.S. Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2008.

Contributor to periodicals including Foreign Affairs, Washington Quarterly, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and the South China Morning Post.

SIDELIGHTS:

Nina L. Hachigian was born on May 16, 1967. She earned her bachelor of science degree from Yale University, then went on to Stanford University Law School, where she earned her juris doctor degree. Hachigian has had a diverse career, starting off as a law clerk for the Ninth Circuit Court in Los Angeles, California, and ultimately taking a position at the Los Angeles law firm of O'Melveny & Myers. She spent time in Washington, DC, working for the U.S. National Security Council, both as special assistant to Jim Steinberg, the Deputy National Security Advisor, and for Samuel R. Berger, the National Security Advisor. She has also held a position as senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation, and was the director of the Center for Asia-Pacific Policy. In addition, she served as a visiting scholar at the Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation. Eventually, Hachigian became senior vice president of the Center for American Progress. She is a frequent contributor to various periodicals, including Foreign Affairs, Washington Quarterly, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and the South China Morning Post. Hachigian is also the author of several books, including The InformationRevolution in Asia, which she wrote with Lily Wu, and The Next American Century: How the U.S. Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise, in collaboration with Mona Sutphen.

The Next American Century addresses recent changes in American foreign policy, and discusses ways in which the United States can take advantage of the new opportunities that have been created, both by altered policies and by shifts in the global arena. Sutphen and Hachigian, both of whom worked for the U.S. National Security Council while President Bill Clinton was in office, use their experiences and wealth of research materials, including reports, scholarly analysis, and various opinion polls for their book. Sutphen and Hachigian believe that the United States should consider ways in which to strategize with other nations it considers vital to the global economy and political situation both now and in the future. These nations include China, India, Japan, Russia, and the European Union. They also analyze what they consider to be potential threats to U.S. prosperity and security, and how the United States can address these issues in a proactive manner. A reviewer for Publishers Weekly declared that "synthesizing a vast amount of material while advancing their arguments, … [Sutphen and Hachigian] have produced a persuasive text." Booklist contributor Jay Freeman remarked that "their wellpresented arguments are worthy of serious consideration."