A nation must think before it acts.
Colin Dueck
Research Areas:
US foreign policy, American Grand Strategy, relationship between party politics, presidential leadership, American conservatism, US foreign policy strategy
Colin Dueck is a Professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He has published three books on American foreign and national security policies, The Obama Doctrine: American Grand Strategy Today (Oxford 2015), Hard Line: The Republican Party and U.S. Foreign Policy since World War II (Princeton 2010), and Reluctant Crusaders: Power, Culture, and Change in American Grand Strategy (Princeton 2006.) His current research focus is on the relationship between party politics, presidential leadership, American conservatism, and U.S. foreign policy strategies. He has worked as a foreign policy advisor on several Republican presidential campaigns.
Dr. Colin Dueck
Professor, Schar School of Policy and Government
George Mason University
4400 University Drive, 3F4
Fairfax, VA 22030
Articles
- Henry Cabot Lodge, Hawaii, and the Shift from Continental to Hemispheric Defense - Orbis - July, 2022
- Eastern Promises: Our German Problem - Analysis - January, 2020
- Mackinder’s Nightmare: Part Two - E-Notes - October, 2019
- Mackinder’s Nightmare: Part One - E-Notes - October, 2019
- Foreign Policy and the 2018 Midterms - E-Notes - October, 2018
- The Hard Way: John McCain - E-Notes - August, 2018
- Will Trump’s Pressure Campaign Work? - Outside Publications - July, 2018
- GOP Foreign Policy Opinion in the Trump Era - E-Notes - April, 2018
- How to Defend the West - National Review - February, 2018
- An Era of Great-Power Leaders - The National Interest - November, 2017
- Winter is coming: Observations from the Baltic States - AEI Ideas - October, 2017
- Theodore Roosevelt and American Realism - Orbis - October, 2017
- This Is the Key to a Successful Trump Foreign Policy - The National Interest - May, 2017
- Trump, Europe, and the Quest to Save NATO - War on the Rocks - February, 2017
- Tillerson the Realist - E-Notes - January, 2017
- Strategic Planning for the New Administration - Hoover Institution - December, 2016
- Republican Party Foreign Policy: 2016 and Beyond - E-Notes - July, 2016
- Strategic Planning for the Next President - Orbis - July, 2016
- A Nuclear-Armed Trump - National Review - March, 2016
- Strategic Planning for the Next President, Part Two: Recommendations for the NSC Process - E-Notes - January, 2016
- Hoover and Offshore Foreign Policy, 1921-1933 - Orbis - January, 2016
- Strategic Planning for the Next President, Part One: The Downside of Defeatism - E-Notes - January, 2016
- A Foreign Policy for a Conservative President - The National Review - September, 2015
- The Strategy of Retrenchment and Its Consequences - E-Notes - April, 2015
- The Role of the National Security Advisor and the 2006 Iraq Strategy Review - Orbis - January, 2014
- Geopolitics Reborn - E-Notes - July, 2013
- Nuclear Nonproliferation and Obama - Orbis - July, 2012
- Hybrid Strategies: The American Experience - Orbis - January, 2011
- Strategies for Managing Rogue States - Orbis - April, 2006
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In the news
- FPRI Senior Fellow Colin Dueck Cited in the New York Times - Scholars in the News -
- FPRI’s Colin Dueck Has Recent Book Reviewed by H-Net - Scholars in the News -
- Book by FPRI’s Colin Dueck Reviewed by Robert Kaplan in Claremont Review - Scholars in the News -
- Book Review of FPRI Colin Dueck’s The Obama Doctrine - Scholars in the News -