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Kori Schake

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Kori Schake
Schake in June 2017
EducationStanford University (BA)
University of Maryland, College Park (MPA, MA, PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsForeign policy
National defense
Government
InstitutionsAmerican Enterprise Institute Hoover Institution
United States Military Academy at West Point
Orbis
Centre for European Reform
Academic advisorsGeorge Quester
Thomas Schelling
Catherine Kelleher

Kori N. Schake (/ˈʃɑːki/ SHAH-kee;[1] born 1962) is an American international relations scholar currently serving as the Director of Foreign and Defense Policy at the American Enterprise Institute. She has held several high positions in the U.S. Defense and State Departments and on the National Security Council. She was a foreign-policy adviser to the McCain-Palin 2008 presidential campaign. Schake is a contributing writer at The Atlantic.[2] She serves on the board of advisors of the Foreign Policy Research Institute[3] and the Alexander Hamilton Society.[4] Schake is a member of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee.[5]

Education

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Schake obtained her PhD in government from the University of Maryland, where she was a student of Thomas Schelling and Catherine Kelleher. She holds both MA and MPA degrees in from the School of Public Affairs. She did her undergraduate studies at Stanford University, where she studied under Condoleezza Rice.[6]

Career

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Pentagon

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Schake's first government job was with U.S. Department of Defense as a NATO Desk Officer in the Joint Staff's Strategic Plans and Policy Division (J-5), where from 1990 to 1994 she worked military issues of German unification, NATO after the Cold War, and alliance expansion.[7] She also spent 2 years (1994–1996) in the Office of the Secretary of Defense as the special assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Strategy and Requirements.[8]

National Security Council

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During President George W. Bush's first term, she was the director for Defense Strategy and Requirements on the National Security Council.[9] She was responsible for interagency coordination for long-term defense planning and coalition maintenance issues. Projects she contributed to include conceptualizing and budgeting for continued transformation of defense practices, the most significant realignment of U.S. military forces and bases around the world since 1950, creating NATO's Allied Command Transformation and the NATO Response Force, and recruiting and retaining coalition partners for operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.[7]

State Department

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Schake was the deputy director for Policy Planning in the U.S. State Department from December 2007 to May 2008.[7][9] Her responsibilities included staff management as well as resourcing and organizational effectiveness issues, including a study of State Department reforms that enable integrated political, economic, and military strategies.[7]

Academia

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Schake (far right) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Project on Nuclear Issues and Ploughshares Fund panel discussion, "Debate: U.S. Nuclear Weapon Modernization", Washington, D.C., 29 June 2017

She has held the Distinguished Chair of International Security Studies at West Point, and also served in the faculties of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy, and the National Defense University.[7]

She was previously a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.[7][10][11] She blogs regularly for Shadow Government on Foreign Policy[12] and is on the editorial board of Orbis[13] and the board of Centre for European Reform. She is also commonly featured on the Deep State Radio podcast.[14] Schake advises Spirit of America, a 501(c)(3) organization that supports US troops.[15]

Trans Atlantic Task Force

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Since 2019, Schake has also been serving on the Transatlantic Task Force of the German Marshall Fund and the Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Schmidt-Stiftung (BKHS), co-chaired by Karen Donfried and Wolfgang Ischinger.[16]

McCain-Palin campaign

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Schake left the State Department in order to serve as a senior policy advisor to the McCain-Palin 2008 presidential campaign, where she was responsible for policy development and outreach in the areas of foreign and defense policy.[17][18][19] Earlier in the campaign, she had been an adviser to Rudy Giuliani.[20]

In 2020, Kori endorsed Joe Biden for president following Rudy Giuliani joining President Donald Trump's legal team in 2018.[21] On February 12, 2021, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin appointed Schake as one of four Departmental representatives to the Commission on the Naming of Items of the Department of Defense that Commemorate the Confederate States of America or Any Person Who Served Voluntarily with the Confederate States of America.[22]

In 2020, Schake, along with over 130 other former Republican national security officials, signed a statement that asserted that President Trump was unfit to serve another term, and "To that end, we are firmly convinced that it is in the best interest of our nation that Vice President Joe Biden be elected as the next President of the United States, and we will vote for him."[23]

Personal life

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Schake was raised in a small town in Sonoma County, California, by her parents Cecelia and Wayne, a former Pan Am pilot. Kori has a brother and sister. Kristina Schake, her 8-year-younger sister, has also worked in the White House, and played key roles in Democratic presidential campaigns, working with Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign. Kori is a Republican.[24] Despite their political differences, they remain very close.[25]

Publications

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Books

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  • America vs the West: Can the Liberal World Order be preserved?, (Penguin Random House Australia, 2018) ISBN 978-0-1437-9536-0.

Articles

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  • The Case for Conservative Internationalism, Foreign Affairs, December 4, 2023[26]
  • "Choices for the Quadrennial Defense Review", Orbis, Summer 2009.

Reports

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References

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  1. ^ "Office Hours: Kori Schake Answers Your Questions On Defining Political End States". YouTube. August 30, 2017. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
  2. ^ Kori Schake. "Kori Schake". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2019-10-27.
  3. ^ "Kori Schake - Foreign Policy Research Institute". www.fpri.org. Retrieved 2024-01-23.
  4. ^ "What is the Alexander Hamilton Society". AHS. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
  5. ^ "Defense Policy Board". policy.defense.gov. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  6. ^ Condoleezza Rice: An American Life: A Biography, Elisabeth Bumiller (Random House, 2009) ISBN 978-0-8129-7713-4, p. 84. link to page in Internet Archive
  7. ^ a b c d e f "Kori Schake (on leave)". Hoover Institution. 2008. Archived from the original on April 2, 2008. Retrieved December 27, 2016.
  8. ^ The Strategic Implications of a Nuclear-Armed Iran, Kori N. Schake and Judith S. Yaphe, McNair Paper 64 (National Defense University Press, 2001). About the Authors Archived 2009-01-10 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ a b Lochhead, Carolyn (January 4, 2009). "Bush: Only time will tell about his legacy". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
  10. ^ Luban, Daniel; Gharib, Ali (April 8, 2009). "Middle East: Gates' budget shakes up the Pentagon". Asia Times. Inter Press Service. Archived from the original on April 10, 2009. Retrieved December 27, 2016.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  11. ^ "USMA Department of Social Sciences - Faculty". Retrieved 2009-09-28.[permanent dead link]
  12. ^ Shadow Government blog contributors Archived 2009-01-15 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ FPRI News
  14. ^ "Deep State Radio". www.stitcher.com. Retrieved 2017-08-23.
  15. ^ "Dr. Kori Schake | Spirit of America". Archived from the original on 2019-04-11. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
  16. ^ The German Marshall Fund and Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Schmidt-Stiftung Launch "Transatlantic Task Force" Setting Path Forward for U.S.-Europe Relations Archived 2019-12-14 at the Wayback Machine German Marshall Fund, press release of December 12, 2019.
  17. ^ Christian Science Monitor
  18. ^ The Guardian
  19. ^ The New York Times
  20. ^ www.joinrudy2008.com - Rudy Giuliani Announces Additional Foreign Policy Advisors
  21. ^ "McCain Alums endorse Joe Biden for President". Retrieved 2020-08-27.
  22. ^ "Statement by Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III on the Department's Representatives to the Congressionally-Mandated Commission on the Naming of Items in the Department of Defense That Commemorate the Confederate States of America". U.S. Department of Defense. 12 February 2021. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
  23. ^ "Former Republican National Security Officials for Biden". Defending Democracy Together. 20 August 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
  24. ^ Schake, Kori. "I'm a Republican and I Support the Iran Nuclear Deal". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
  25. ^ Daum, Meghan (December 15, 2015). "These Two Sisters Couldn't Be Closer—Or More Politically Opposed". Vogue. Retrieved December 27, 2016.
  26. ^ Schake, Kori (2023-12-04). "The Case for Conservative Internationalism". Foreign Affairs. No. January/February 2024. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved 2024-01-23.
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