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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The Exit is the Strategy

by Kori Schakevia Advancing a Free Society
Saturday, October 22, 2011

The president's announcement on Friday that all U.S. troops would leave Iraq by the end of the year took many people by surprise, since both the White House and Pentagon had been repeatedly emphasizing that negotiations with Iraq were ongoing, that no decision had been made.

Analysis and Commentary

Forgetting Iraq

by Kori Schakevia Advancing a Free Society
Friday, October 21, 2011

As Libya celebrates and begins constructing a free society, they have the friendship and assistance of the United States government...Iraq once also had the help of the United States, but that time passed when Barack Obama came into office...

Forgetting Iraq

by Kori Schakevia Advancing a Free Society
Friday, October 21, 2011

Libya is finally free of Muammar Ghaddafi; and how fitting he met his end as Saddam Hussein did, cowering in a hiding place.  Both were despots that stole generations of promise from their people, perverting lives with their repression.  As Libya celebrates and begins construc

A heretic responds

by Kori Schakevia Advancing a Free Society
Friday, October 14, 2011

Since I have often argued in these electronic pages for reducing defense spending, I feel the need to respond to Tom Mahnken's post, and hopefully draw out the arguments for and against maintain

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Lessons of the Libya War

by Kori Schakevia Defining Ideas
Thursday, October 13, 2011

This military adventure has set a precedent we may not want to repeat.

In the News

Lessons of the Libya War

by Kori Schakevia Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
Thursday, October 13, 2011

This military adventure has set a precedent we may not want to repeat...

Lessons of the Libya War

by Kori Schakevia Advancing a Free Society
Thursday, October 13, 2011

The leaders of the Free World must have heaved sighs of relief when Tripoli fell to rebel forces.

Iran's Latest Plot

by Kori Schakevia Advancing a Free Society
Thursday, October 13, 2011

Several years ago in researching a book on how a nuclear-armed Iran might affect American interests in the Middle East, an intelligence expert I interviewed assessed that the U.S.

Analysis and Commentary

Iran’s Latest Plot

by Kori Schakevia Advancing a Free Society
Thursday, October 13, 2011

Their imperfect understanding of American civil society and underestimation of our intelligence community prevented the plot succeeding. But they probably gained a significantly improved understanding of how our system works that will benefit future plots...

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Exit Door

by Kori Schakevia Hoover Digest
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

American troops went to Afghanistan to defeat terrorists. Bring them home too hastily and their work may be undone. By Kori N. Schake.

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