Kori Schake

Senior Fellow and Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies for the American Enterprise Institute

Kori Schake is a senior fellow and the director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Dr. Schake is the former deputy director-general of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. She has worked at the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the National Security Council at the White House. Author of five books, most recently “America vs. the West: Can the Liberal World Order Be Preserved?” Dr. Schake is widely published in policy journals and the popular press. She has a doctorate in government and politics from the University of Maryland.

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Should The U.S. Ban TikTok?

With one billion active users across more than 150 countries, TikTok is by many measures one of the world’s most successful video apps — and half of Americans use it. The House of Representatives has…

With Milton Mueller, Kori Schake

February 17, 2023

America Is Retreating from Global Leadership

It’s been a year of the Biden administration. And for many around the world, the question is simple: Can America still lead like it used to? Many who recall the era after the fall of…

With Bill Kristol, Mary Beth Long, Kori Schake, Vikram Singh

January 26, 2022

Agree to Disagree: Leaving Afghanistan

The Taliban have won. Twenty years after the 2001 invasion, the U.S.-backed government in Kabul has fallen. The Afghan president has fled. Taliban leadership, which ran the country in the late 1990s, is now firmly…

With Daniel Markey, Kori Schake

August 21, 2021

The Recent U.S. Policy Towards China Is Productive

The United States is cracking down on China in an attempt to create a more favorable balance of trade. Other concerns include continuing Chinese thefts of intellectual property and the imposition of technology transfer requirements to do business…

With Graham Allison, Michael Pillsbury, Kori Schake, Jake Sullivan

August 2, 2019

Unresolved: U.S. National Security

For the United States, tensions are rising with both allies and adversaries. Rogue states are racing to master new technologies and create weapons of mass destruction. And faith in international institutions is seemingly deteriorating. What…

With Derek Chollet, Stephen F. Cohen, Reuel Marc Gerecht, John J. Mearsheimer, Kori Schake

September 20, 2018

Humanitarian Intervention Does More Harm Than Good

The international community currently faces a global refugee crisis and mass atrocities in Iraq, Myanmar, Syria, Yemen, and beyond. How should the West respond? Proponents of humanitarian intervention – the use of force to…

With Bernard Kouchner, Frank Ledwidge, Rajan Menon, Kori Schake

March 9, 2018

Western Democracy Is Threatening Suicide

Do the populist and nationalist uprisings that led to Donald Trump and Brexit signal Western democracy’s certain decline? Or can recent events be seen as part of a healthy and regenerative antidote to policies that…

With Clive Crook, Bernard-Henri Levy, Yascha Mounk, Kori Schake

October 3, 2017

Cutting the Pentagon's Budget is a Gift To Our Enemies

Presented in Partnership with The McCain Institute for International Leadership Political gridlock in Washington triggered across-the-board spending cuts, known as the sequester, in March. As a result, the Pentagon was given six months to eliminate…

With Thomas Donnelly, Benjamin Friedman, Andrew Krepinevich, Kori Schake

June 19, 2013

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