Kori Schake

Kori N. Schake (/ˈʃɑːki/ SHAH-kee;^[1] born 1962) is the Director of Foreign and Defense Policy at the American Enterprise Institute. She has held several high positions in the U.S. Defense and State Departments and on the National Security Council. She was a foreign-policy adviser to the McCain-Palin 2008 presidential campaign. Schake is a contributing writer at The Atlantic.^[2] She serves on the board of advisors of the Foreign Policy Research Institute^[3] and the Alexander Hamilton Society.^[4]

Professional career

Schake obtained her

Since 2019, Schake has also been serving on the Transatlantic Task Force of the German Marshall Fund and the Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Schmidt-Stiftung (BKHS), co-chaired by Karen Donfried and Wolfgang Ischinger.^[15]

McCain-Palin campaign

Schake left the State Department in order to serve as a senior

In 2020, Schake, along with over 130 other former Republican national security officials, signed a statement that asserted that President Trump was unfit to serve another term, and "To that end, we are firmly convinced that it is in the best interest of our nation that Vice President Joe Biden be elected as the next President of the United States, and we will vote for him."[22]

Personal life

Schake was raised in a small town in

• America vs the West: Can the Liberal World Order be preserved?, (Penguin Random House Australia, 2018)
  ISBN 978-0-1437-9536-0
  .

• The Case for Conservative Internationalism, Foreign Affairs, December 4, 2023^[25]
• "Choices for the Quadrennial Defense Review", Orbis, Summer 2009.

• ISBN 978-0-8179-1934-4
  . Retrieved November 28, 2016.
• State of Disrepair: Fixing the Culture and Practices of the State Department, (Hoover Institution 2012)
  ISBN 978-0-8179-1454-7
  .
• Managing American Hegemony: Essays on Power in a Time of Dominance, (Hoover Institution 2009)
  ISBN 978-0-8179-4902-0
  .
• The US Elections and Europe: The Coming Crisis of High Expectations, (Centre for European Reform, 2007).
• "Dealing with a Nuclear Iran," Policy Review (April/May 2007).
• "Jurassic Pork," The New York Times, 9 February 2006.
• "An American Eulogy for European Defence," in Anne Deighton, ed., Securing Europe? (ETH Zurich, 2006)
  ISBN 978-3-905696-11-0
  .
• "National Security: A Better Approach," with Bruce Berkowitz, Hoover Digest (No. 4, 2005).
• "NATO Strategy and the German-American Relationship," in
  ISBN 978-0-521-83420-9
  .
• The Berlin Wall Crisis, edited with John Gearson (Palgrave, 2002)
  ISBN 978-0-333-92960-5
  .
• "How America Should Lead," (with Klaus Becher), Policy Review (August/September 2002).
• Constructive Duplication: Reducing EU Reliance on US Military Assets (Centre for European Reform, January 2002).
• The Strategic Implications of a Nuclear-Armed Iran, with Judith S. Yaphe, McNair Paper 64 (National Defense University Press, 2001).
• "Arms Control After the Cold War: The Challenge of Diverging Security Agendas," in S. Victor Papacosma, Sean Kay, and Mark R. Rubin, eds., NATO After Fifty Years (2001)
  ISBN 978-0-8420-2886-8
  .
• Do European Union Defense Initiatives Threaten NATO? (Strategic Forum, National Defense University, August 2001).
• Evaluating NATO’s Efficiency in Crisis Management, Les Notes de L’IFRI, No 21 (
  Institute Francais des Relations Internationales
  , 2000).
• "NATO’s ‘Fundamental Divergence’ Over Proliferation," in Ted Galen Carpenter, ed.,
  The Journal of Strategic Studies
  , special issue on NATO Enters the 21st Century (September 2000); also published as a book by Frank Cass, 2001.
• "Building A European Defense Capability," with Amaya Bloch-Laine and Charles Grant, in Survival (IISS, Spring 1999).
• "NATO Chronicle: New World Disorder," Joint Forces Quarterly (April 1999).
• Zwischen Weissen Haus und Pariser Platz – Washington und Berlin in Strategischer Allianz, in Ralph Thiele and Hans-Ulrich Seitz, eds., Heraus-Forderung Zukunft (Report Verlag, 1999).
• "The Dayton Peace Accords: Success or Failure?", in Kurt R. Spillmann and Joachim Krause, eds., International Security Challenges in a Changing World (Peter Lang, 1999)
  ISBN 978-3-906763-68-2
  .
• "NATO After the Cold War, 1991–1996: Institutional Competition and the Collapse of the French Alternative," Contemporary European History, Vol 7, Part 3 (November 1998).
• "Beyond Russia and China: A Survey of Threats to U.S. Security from Lesser States," in Challenging the United States Symmetrically and Asymmetrically: Can America Be Defeated?, Lloyd J. Matthews, ed., (
  U.S. Army War College
  , July 1998).
• Europe After NATO Expansion: The Unfinished Security Agenda (Policy Paper #38,
  Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation
  , February 1998).
• "The Breakup of Yugoslavia," in Roderick K. von Lipsey, ed., Breaking the Cycle: A Framework for Conflict Resolution (St. Martin's Press, 1997)
  ISBN 978-0-312-16253-5
  .
• "The Berlin Crises of 1948–49 and 1958–62," in
  ISBN 978-0-312-06217-0
  .