Matthew Kroenig on the Moral Imperative of American Power

Georgetown University Professor Matthew Kroenig spoke on November 1, 2024 at IRD’s annual Christianity and National Security Conference in Washington, D.C. Kroenig speaks on how American power and grand strategy confronts an axis of autocracies that could result in a major war. Video of his presentation is below from the Providence YouTube channel.

Kroenig (PhD, UC-Berkeley) is a Professor in the Department of Government and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Kroenig is also Vice President at the Atlantic Council, where he is the Senior Director of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. Kroenig was appointed by the U.S. Congress in 2022 to serve as a commissioner on the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States. He has served in several positions in the U.S. Department of Defense and the intelligence community during the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, including in the Strategy, Middle East, and Nuclear and Missile Defense offices in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the CIA’s Strategic Assessments Group.

 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, The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy: Why Strategic Superiority Matters, and Exporting the Bomb: Technology Transfer and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons. His articles have appeared in American Political Science Review, Annual Review of Political Science, Foreign Affairs, International Organization, International Security, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Strategic Studies, Politico, Security Studies, Strategic Studies Quarterly, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post, among others. He is a columnist at Foreign Policy. Dr. Kroenig provides regular commentary for major media outlets, including PBS, CBS, BBC, CNN, Fox News, NPR, and C-SPAN.