Contributors

Tyler Cullis is a Principal Attorney at Ferrari & Associates, specializing in U.S. economic sanctions, trade compliance, and regulatory licensing. He has significant experience advising clients on matters involving the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control and the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security. Mr. Cullis has counseled U.S. and foreign clients on cross-border transactions, sanctions compliance, and federal investigations, including license applications and voluntary self-disclosures. A prolific writer, Mr. Cullis has been published in The New York Times and The Washington Post and frequently contributes to major news outlets on sanctions-related topics.

Dr. Lise Morjé Howard is a tenured Professor at Georgetown University, holding joint appointments in the Department of Government and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Her research focuses on war, peace, and security, supported by fieldwork in conflict zones across Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East, and Eurasia. Dr. Howard’s scholarly contributions appear in prestigious journals, including International Organization and International Security. Her book UN Peacekeeping in Civil Wars (2008) received the Academic Council on the UN System’s Book Award, while Power in Peacekeeping (2019) won the International Security Studies Section Book Award from the International Studies Association. Through her work, she significantly enhances the understanding of peacekeeping dynamics in civil conflicts.

Dr. Charles A. Kupchan is Professor of International Affairs in the School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University, and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. From 2014 to 2017, Dr. Kupchan served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council in the Obama White House. He was also Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council during the first Clinton administration. His most recent books are Anchoring the World: International Order in the Twenty-First Century (2021), Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself from the World (2020), No One’s World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn (2012), and How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace (2010).

Dr. Michael Mazarr is a Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation, which he joined in October 2014. Prior to coming to RAND he served as Professor of National Security Strategy and Associate Dean at the U.S. National War College in Washington, D.C. He has served as special assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, president and CEO of the Henry L. Stimson Center, senior vice president for strategic planning at the Electronic Industries Alliance, legislative assistant in the U.S. House of Representatives, and senior fellow and editor of The Washington Quarterly at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He holds AB and MA degrees from Georgetown University and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland School of Public Affairs.

Dr. Jeanne Morefield is Associate Professor of Political Theory and Fellow at New College, Oxford, as well as a Non-Residential Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft in Washington, D.C. She is a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies for 2024-2025. Previously, she served as Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Birmingham and as Professor of Politics at Whitman College. Dr. Morefield’s research intersects political theory, international relations, and intellectual history, focusing on the connections between liberalism, imperialism, and internationalism in Britain and America. She is the author of several influential works, including Covenants Without Swords and Empires Without Imperialism. Her forthcoming book, Underworld, explores the interplay of liberalism, fascism, and sex trafficking panics.

Jeremy Shapiro is the research director of the European Council on Foreign Relations. His areas of focus include US foreign policy and transatlantic relations. Shapiro was previously a fellow with the Project on International Order and Strategy and the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings, where he edited the Foreign Policy program’s blog Order from Chaos. Prior to Brookings, he was a member of the U.S. State Department’s policy planning staff, where he advised the secretary of state on U.S. policy in North Africa and the Levant. He was also the senior advisor to Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon, providing strategic guidance on a wide variety of U.S.-European foreign policy issues.

Dr. Stephen Wertheim is a Senior Fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is an historian of U.S. foreign policy and analyst of current problems in American strategy and diplomacy. Dr. Wertheim is the author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy (Harvard, 2020), which explains how the United States decided to pursue global military dominance. Named one of “the world’s 50 top thinkers for the Covid-19 age” by Prospect, he frequently writes on international affairs in The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, and the New York Times, among other venues. He co-founded the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft in 2019 and has taught at Catholic University, Columbia University, Princeton University, and Yale Law School.