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John Schuessler
Alliances, Grand strategy, and Great power competition

John Schuessler

Non-Resident Fellow

John Schuessler is a non-resident fellow at Defense Priorities and an associate professor in the Department of International Affairs and co-director of the Albritton Center for Grand Strategy at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University.

Schuessler previously taught at the Air War College. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago and is the author of Deceit on the Road to War: Presidents, Politics, and American Democracy (Cornell University Press, 2015). His primary interests include democracy and war, as well as American grand strategy.