Dr. David Santoro is the President and CEO of the Honolulu-based Pacific Forum. He specializes in strategic and security issues with a regional focus on both Asia and Europe. Dr. Santoro’s current interests focus on great-power dynamics, US alliances, and deterrence, particularly the role of China in an era of nuclear multipolarity. In 2021, Lynne Rienner published his volume on US-China Nuclear Relations–The Impact of Strategic Triangles. Before joining the Pacific Forum, Dr. Santoro worked on similar issues in France, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. In the spring of 2010, he was a visiting fellow at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation and in 2010-2011, a Stanton nuclear security fellow at the Institute for International Strategic Studies in London.