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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An Important Departure

by Kori Schakevia Advancing a Free Society
Tuesday, November 9, 2010

The values that animate American internationalism have been treated by the Obama Administration as something to shroud in order to make America popular abroad...Secretary Clinton’s affirmation of the difference between free people and authoritarian governments is a welcome change...

An Important Departure

by Kori Schakevia Advancing a Free Society
Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Speaking in Australia yesterday, Secretary Clinton made a forceful statement about the bedrock values that unite democratic people.

Analysis and Commentary

Overstating Asia's Rise

by Kori Schakevia National Journal Expert Blog: National Security
Monday, November 8, 2010

It's easy to overstate both the rise of Asia and the degree to which they could supplant U.S. influence...Asia is rising, but more slowly and with much more difficulty than we often acknowledge...

The New Dover Shore Alliance

by Kori Schakevia Advancing a Free Society
Thursday, November 4, 2010

Although Britain and France have closely aligned interests, they have long found it difficult to cooperate.

Analysis and Commentary

The new Dover shore alliance

by Kori Schakevia Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
Thursday, November 4, 2010

...[Y]esterday, British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy signed a treaty that will bind their defense establishments tightly together for the coming fifty years...

Analysis and Commentary

It's time for consensus

by Kori Schakevia Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
Wednesday, November 3, 2010

[N]ow that the dust is settling on the dimensions of Republican victory, what is it likely to mean for the wars we are fighting...?

It’s time for consensus

by Kori Schakevia Advancing a Free Society
Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Yesterday's election was notable for many reasons -- rejection of President Barack Obama's agenda, the largest opposition pick up in 80 years, the perks of incumbency outweighed by anti-establishment sentiment among voters.

Analysis and Commentary

Democracy in America

by Kori Schakevia Advancing a Free Society
Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Foreign policy has not figured prominently in this election, partly because we’re not selecting a commander in chief. Mostly because bigger issues are at stake than America’s role in the world. We are instead debating what makes America America...

Democracy in America

by Kori Schakevia Advancing a Free Society
Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Foreign policy has not figured prominently in this election, partly because we’re not selecting a commander in chief. Mostly because bigger issues are at stake than America’s role in the world. We are instead debating what makes America America.

Analysis and Commentary

Wikileaks Strikes Again

by Kori Schakevia Advancing a Free Society
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

The notorious website Wikileaks has struck again, this time releasing an enormous hoard of classified U.S. documents pertaining to the Iraq war...

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