Stephen Wertheim

Stephen Wertheim is a senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a visiting faculty fellow at the Center for Global Legal Challenges at Yale Law School. Previously, he was Director of Grand Strategy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a think tank he co-founded in 2019. His first book, Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of US Global Supremacy, was published in 2020.

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Great Powers, High Table

“When I was a full-time academic historian, I never imagined the debate about US foreign policy thrown open to the extent it now is. But the ultimate purpose is to change the policy, not just the debate.”

February 12, 2022

Who’s Afraid of Isolationism?

For decades, America’s governing elite caricatured sensible restraint in order to pursue geopolitical dominance and endless wars. At last the folly may be over.

February 3, 2022

Return of the Neocons

Trump’s election victory appeared to deal a double blow to the neoconservative persuasion. But today, neoconservatives are riding high once more, in the White House, on Capitol Hill, in the most prominent organs of opinion.

January 2, 2019

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