Kori Schake is deputy director-general of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Previously, Schake was a distinguished research fellow at the Hoover Institution. She has also served as deputy head of policy planning at the U.S. State Department and director for defense strategy and requirements on the National Security Council, along with positions in the U.S. Department of Defense.
Schake has also held the distinguished chair of international security studies at West Point and has served on the faculties of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy, and the National Defense University.
She is author of Safe Passage and, along with Secretary Jim Mattis, the editor of Warriors and Citizens: American Views of Our Military.
Featured Work
DEC 5, 2018 • Article
Misconnecting with the U.S. Public: Narrative Collapse and U.S. Foreign Policy
For the past year, the U.S. Global Engagement program has focused its attention on the continuing strengths and weaknesses of the narratives that can ...
JUL 5, 2018 • Podcast
Global Ethics Weekly: Trump's "First-Order Questions" & NATO Defense Spending
Carnegie Council Senior Fellow Nikolas Gvosdev looks at some basic questions Trump is asking about the post-Cold War alliance structures. Referencing a recent panel with ...
JUN 13, 2018 • Podcast
Restoring Trust: How Can the American Public Regain its Confidence in its National Security Apparatus?
There is a huge divide in the way Americans assess U.S. foreign policy. Take for example, the June G7 meeting, which ended in a ...
FEB 21, 2018 • Podcast
Dangerous Delegation: Military Intervention & the U.S. Public, with Kori Schake
Are Americans too deferential to the armed forces, becoming increasingly willing to "outsource" judgement to the military? Senior Fellow Nikolas Gvosdev talks with Dr. Kori ...