Matthew Kroenig Session Overview

Matthew Kroenig is a Professor in the Department of Government and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is also the Vice President and Senior Director of the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. A 2019 study in Perspectives on Politics ranked him as one of the top 25 most-cited political scientists of his generation. Dr. Kroenig was appointed by the US Congress in 2022 to serve as a commissioner on the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States. He has previously served in the Department of Defense. He was a major contributor to the 2018 US Nuclear Posture Review. In 2005, he was a principal author of the first-ever, US-government-wide strategy for deterring terrorist networks. For this work, he received the Office of the Secretary of Defense's Award for Outstanding Achievement. Dr. Kroenig is the author or editor of eight books, including The Return of Great Power Rivalry: Democracy versus Autocracy from the Ancient World to the US and China (Oxford University Press, 2020); The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy: Why Strategic Superiority Matters (Oxford University Press, 2018); and Exporting the Bomb: Technology Transfer and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons (Cornell University Press, 2010).