Charles Kupchan

Charles Kupchan is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a professor of international affairs at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. He served as special assistant to the president and senior director for European affairs on the National Security Council under President Obama (2014–2017), and also held NSC roles during the Clinton administration. Previously, he worked at the U.S. State Department and taught at Princeton University. Kupchan is the author of numerous books on international relations, including “Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself From the World” (2020), “No One’s World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn” (2012), “How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace” (2010), “The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century” (2002), “Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order” (2001), “Civic Engagement in the Atlantic Community” (1999), “Atlantic Security: Contending Visions” (1998), “Nationalism and Nationalities in the New Europe” (1995), “The Vulnerability of Empire” (1994), and “The Persian Gulf and the West” (1987).