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 U.S. State Department, the U.S. 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. In addition to being a contributing writer at The Atlantic and War on the Rocks, Dr. Schake is the author of five books, among them America vs the West: Can the Liberal World Order Be Preserved? and Safe Passage: The Transition from British to American Hegemony.