stephen wertheim
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Stephen Wertheim is a historian of the United States in the world and
analyst of contemporary American grand strategy. He is a Senior Fellow in the American
Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace. He is also a Visiting Lecturer at the School of Public and International
Affairs at Princeton University.
Stephen
is the author of Tomorrow, the
World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy (Harvard University
Press, 2020), which reveals how U.S. officials and intellectuals, in the
lead-up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, decided to pursue global military
dominance as the effectively permanent project of the United States.
Named one of “the
world’s 50 top thinkers for the Covid-19 age” by Prospect
magazine, Stephen regularly writes about current events. His essays have
appeared in The Atlantic, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The
Guardian, The Nation, The New
York Review of Books, The New York
Times, The New Yorker, The
Washington Post, and elsewhere.
He has also appeared on CNN, C-SPAN, Deutsche Welle,
MSNBC, NPR, and PBS.
Stephen has published scholarship on a range of subjects and concepts in U.S.
foreign policy, including international law, world organization, colonial
empire, humanitarian intervention, public opinion, and “isolationism.” His research on the intellectual
origins of the League of Nations won the Fischel-Calhoun
Prize from the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive
Era.
Stephen was previously Director of Grand Strategy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible
Statecraft, a think-tank he co-founded in 2019. He has taught at Catholic
University, Columbia University, and Yale Law School, and held a permanent lectureship
at Birkbeck, University of London. He also held postdoctoral research
fellowships at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia
University, the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, and
King’s College, University of Cambridge.
Stephen received a PhD from Columbia University in 2015. He received
an MPhil from Columbia in 2011 and an AB summa cum laude from Harvard University in 2007.
In his spare time, Stephen thinks up comedy ideas, talks about them, and fails to carry them out.