The Legacy of U.S. Military Supremacy

Description

The Program in International Studies will host Stephen Wertheim, deputy director of research and policy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, for a discussion regarding the legacy of U.S. military supremacy, responsible statecraft, and foreign policy.

Stephen Wertheim is a historian of the U.S. in the world. He is deputy director of research and policy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, which he co-founded with a mission to move U.S. foreign policy away from endless war. He is also a research scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University.

He is the author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy (Harvard University Press, 2020) and academic articles on such topics as grand strategy, international law, world organization, and humanitarian intervention.

Wertheim regularly writes about current events in Foreign Affairs, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and elsewhere. Prospect magazine named him one of "the world's 50 top thinkers for the COVID-19 age."

He previously held faculty positions in the history departments of Columbia University and Birkbeck, University of London. He received a Ph.D. in history from Columbia in 2015.