The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is proud to host a BCSIA Directors’ Student/Fellows Q&A session with Dr. Kori Schake, Distinguished Professor of International Security Studies at the United State Military Academy at West Point. She is also a Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where she is writing a book on issues of sustainability in American power.
Dr. Schake was the Director for Defense Strategy and Requirements on the National Security Council until the summer of 2005, where she was responsible for defense issues, long-term defense planning and coalition maintenance. Major projects she contributed to include: the 2002 National Security Strategy that defined post-9/11 priorities for protecting and advancing American interests; conceptualizing and budgeting for continued transformation of defense practices; the global posture review, which was the most significant realignment of U.S. military forces and bases around the world since 1950; creation of NATO's Allied Command Transformation and the NATO Response Force; and recruiting and retaining coalition partners for operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Prior to her work in the White House, Dr. Schake was a Senior Research Professor in the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University. In that capacity, she conducted research on policy-relevant defense issues, particularly military transformation, transatlantic security issues, and strategies for dealing with rogue states. She has also taught in the faculties of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs. From 1990-1996, she worked in Pentagon staff jobs, first in the Joint Staff and then in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
