Stephen Wertheim

Stephen Wertheim is senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and visiting lecturer at Yale Law School. A historian, he analyzes current problems in U.S. strategy and diplomacy. Wertheim has published scholarship on a range of subjects in U.S. foreign policy, and he is the author of “Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy,” which reveals how the United States chose to pursue global military dominance. Named one of “the world’s 50 top thinkers for the COVID-19 age” by Prospect, he has written for the Atlantic, the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, the New Yorker and the Washington Post. Wertheim has previously taught at Catholic University, Columbia University, Princeton University, and Birkbeck, University of London. He served as director of grand strategy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, which he co-founded. He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and B.A. from Harvard University.