Kori Schake

Biography: 

Dr. Kori Schake is the Deputy Director-General of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). She was a distinguished research fellow at the Hoover Institution and is the editor, with Jim Mattis, of the book Warriors and Citizens: American Views of Our Military

She has served in various policy roles including at the White House for the National Security Council; at the Department of Defense for the Office of the Secretary and Joint Chiefs of Staff and the State Department for the Policy Planning Staff.  During the 2008 presidential election, she was Senior Policy Advisor on the McCain-Palin campaign.

She has been profiled in publications ranging from national news to popular culture including the Los Angeles Times, Politico, and Vogue Magazine.

Her recent publications include: Safe Passage: The Transition from British to American Hegemony (Harvard University Press, 2017), Republican Foreign Policy After Trump (Survival, Fall 2016), National Security Challenges for the Next President (Orbis, Winter 2017), and Will Washington Abandon the Order?, (Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb 2017).

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One More Reason Not To Want This Iranian Government In Possession of Nuclear Weapons...and to Have Hope For Iran’s Future

by Kori Schakevia Advancing a Free Society
Friday, February 10, 2012

The people of Iran have endured an awful lot in the 33 years since they overthrew the Shah: hijacking of their revolution by the ayatollahs, eight years of war with Iraq, their government becoming the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, progressive narrowing of their c

Congress Needs to Demand a Plan (for Iraq)

by Kori Schakevia Advancing a Free Society
Friday, February 10, 2012

The strategy we should have had for Iraq was to slowly transition from military presence by building Iraqi capacity to maintain security and grow political institutions that would frame and ensure representative governance in Iraq.

Analysis and Commentary

One More Reason Not To Want This Iranian Government In Possession of Nuclear Weapons…and to Have Hope For Iran’s Future

by Kori Schakevia Advancing a Free Society
Friday, February 10, 2012

In the midst of all that discouragement, Iranian civil society shows us flashes of all that might be in an Iran whose government was not a threat to its own people and to us...

Analysis and Commentary

Congress Needs to Demand a Plan

by Kori Schakevia Room for Debate (New York Times)
Thursday, February 9, 2012

Congress should demand that the administration produce a plan with measurable objectives for what our mission in Iraq will achieve. We hold our military to that standard, and we should expect the same of our diplomats...

So much for leading through civilian power

by Kori Schakevia Advancing a Free Society
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

According to the New York Times, the administration is reconsidering its commitment to maintain in Iraq the largest civilian mission the U.S. has ever attempted. Drawing down the U.S. mission in Iraq is the right choice.

Analysis and Commentary

So much for leading through civilian power

by Kori Schakevia Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

The discouraging truth is that despite the State Department's bold assertions in the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review that it will lead through civilian power, its handling of the transition to civilian leadership of our mission in Iraq demonstrates how very far we have yet to go...

Analysis and Commentary

Writing off Afghanistan, too

by Kori Schakevia Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
Thursday, February 2, 2012

The Obama administration is sending contradictory messages on a crucially important national security subject...

In the News

Post-Sovereign Europe?

by Kori Schakevia Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

There can be no "solidarity" without a loss of national greatness...

Post-Sovereign Europe?

by Kori Schakevia Advancing a Free Society
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

The crisis of the European monetary union has unfolded at roughly the same time as the Arab Spring, and their geneses illustrate a striking contrast in those societies’ views of government.

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Post-Sovereign Europe?

by Kori Schakevia Defining Ideas
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

There can be no "solidarity" without a loss of national greatness.

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