Kristine Lee

Former Associate Fellow

Kristine Lee is a former Associate Fellow with the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), where she focuses on U.S. alliances and partnerships in the Indo-Pacific region, U.S.-China relations, and managing the North Korea threat.

Ms. Lee was a recipient of the Fulbright fellowship and received her A.B. from Harvard College, where she was the Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard International Review. She earned her Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, focusing on international relations and security studies. She has appeared as a commentator on CNN, Al Jazeera, Voice of America, among other outlets, and her writing and analysis has appeared in Foreign Affairs, War on the Rocks, Foreign Policy online, The Hill, USA Today, The National Interest, The Diplomat, and various CNAS publications.

In June 2019, Ms. Lee was named as a 2019-2020 recipient of the 1LT Andrew J. Bacevich Jr., USA Award.

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Commentary
- January 12, 2021
Harnessing Multilateralism for Digital Development
By Kristen A. Cordell & Kristine Lee
Commentary
- December 9, 2020
Sharper: North Korea
By Joshua Fitt, Jason Bartlett, Chris Estep, Cole Stevens & Kristine Lee
Commentary
- December 1, 2020
Retooling Democratic Good Governance
By Coby Goldberg & Kristine Lee
Reports
- November 16, 2020
Renew, Elevate, Modernize: A Blueprint for a 21st-Century U.S.-ROK Alliance Strategy
By Kristine Lee, Joshua Fitt & Coby Goldberg
Reports
- October 28, 2020
Digital Entanglement
By Kristine Lee, Martijn Rasser, Joshua Fitt & Coby Goldberg