Kori Schake is a senior fellow and the director of
foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
Before joining AEI, Dr. Schake was the deputy director-general of the International
Institute for Strategic Studies in London. She has had a distinguished career
in government, working at the US State Department, the US Department of
Defense, and the National Security Council at the White House. She has also
taught at Stanford, West Point, Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced
International Studies, National Defense University, and the University of
Maryland. Dr. Schake is the author of five books, among them "America vs
the West: Can the Liberal World Order Be Preserved?" (Penguin Random House
Australia, Lowy Institute, 2018) and "Safe Passage: The Transition from
British to American Hegemony" (Harvard University Press, 2017). Dr. Schake
has a PhD and MA in government and politics from the University of Maryland, as
well as an MPM from the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. Her BA
in international relations is from Stanford University.