Kori Schake

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.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

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.hoover.org/bios/schake.html|title=Kori Schake (on leave)|date=2008|publisher=Hoover Institution|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080402093712/http://www.hoover.org/bios/schake.html|archive-date=April 2, 2008|url-status=dead|access-date=December 27, 2016}} 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.The Strategic Implications of a Nuclear-Armed Iran, Kori N. Schake and Judith S. Yaphe, McNair Paper 64 (National Defense University Press, 2001). [http://www.ndu.edu/inss/McNair/mcnair64/McN64auth.html About the Authors] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090110053906/http://www.ndu.edu/inss/McNair/mcnair64/McN64auth.html |date=2009-01-10 }}

During President George W. Bush's first term, she was the director for Defense Strategy and Requirements on the National Security Council.{{cite web |url=http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Bush-Only-time-will-tell-about-his-legacy-3177615.php |title=Bush: Only time will tell about his legacy |last=Lochhead |first=Carolyn |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |date=January 4, 2009 |access-date=June 21, 2017}} 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.

Schake was the deputy director for Policy Planning in the U.S. State Department from December 2007 to May 2008. 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.

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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.

She was previously a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.{{cite news|url=http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KD08Ak03.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090410072515/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KD08Ak03.html|url-status=unfit|archive-date=April 10, 2009|title=Middle East: Gates' budget shakes up the Pentagon|first1=Daniel|last1=Luban|first2=Ali|last2=Gharib|date=April 8, 2009|work=Asia Times|access-date=December 27, 2016|agency=Inter Press Service}}{{cite web|url=http://www.dean.usma.edu/departments/sosh/7_Faculty/faculty.htm|title=USMA Department of Social Sciences - Faculty|access-date=2009-09-28}}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} She blogs regularly for Shadow Government on Foreign Policy[http://shadow.foreignpolicy.com/contributors#schake Shadow Government blog contributors] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115111959/http://shadow.foreignpolicy.com/contributors|date=2009-01-15}} and is on the editorial board of Orbis[http://www.fpri.org/news/2009/#appointments FPRI News] and the board of Centre for European Reform. She is also commonly featured on the Deep State Radio podcast.{{Cite web|url=https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/deep-state-radio-network/deep-state-radio|title=Deep State Radio|website=www.stitcher.com|language=en|access-date=2017-08-23}} Schake advises Spirit of America, a 501(c)(3) organization that supports US troops.{{Cite web |url=https://spiritofamerica.org/staff/dr-kori-schake |title=Dr. Kori Schake | Spirit of America |access-date=2019-04-11 |archive-date=2019-04-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190411181835/https://spiritofamerica.org/staff/dr-kori-schake |url-status=dead }}

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.[http://www.gmfus.org/press-releases/german-marshall-fund-and-bundeskanzler-helmut-schmidt-stiftung-launch-transatlantic The German Marshall Fund and Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Schmidt-Stiftung Launch "Transatlantic Task Force" Setting Path Forward for U.S.-Europe Relations] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214112227/http://www.gmfus.org/press-releases/german-marshall-fund-and-bundeskanzler-helmut-schmidt-stiftung-launch-transatlantic |date=2019-12-14 }} German Marshall Fund, press release of December 12, 2019.

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.[http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0707/p01s03-uspo.html Christian Science Monitor][https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/26/johnmccain.barackobama?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront The Guardian][https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/world/americas/31iht-31policy.17405861.html The New York Times] Earlier in the campaign, she had been an adviser to Rudy Giuliani.[https://web.archive.org/web/20071012215440/http://www.joinrudy2008.com/article/pr/890 www.joinrudy2008.com] - Rudy Giuliani Announces Additional Foreign Policy Advisors

In 2020, Kori endorsed Joe Biden for president following Rudy Giuliani joining President Donald Trump's legal team in 2018.{{cite web |url=https://medium.com/@mccain4biden/mccain-alums-for-biden-73ac3682d89e |title=McCain Alums endorse Joe Biden for President |access-date=2020-08-27}} 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.{{cite web |title=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 |url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2502459/statement-by-secretary-of-defense-lloyd-j-austin-iii-on-the-departments-represe/ |website=U.S. Department of Defense |access-date=12 February 2021 |date=12 February 2021}}

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."{{cite web |url=https://www.defendingdemocracytogether.org/national-security/ |title=Former Republican National Security Officials for Biden |date=20 August 2020 |website=Defending Democracy Together |access-date=26 August 2021}}

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.{{Cite web|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/04/02/im-a-republican-and-i-support-the-iran-nuclear-deal/|title=I'm a Republican and I Support the Iran Nuclear Deal|last=Schake|first=Kori|website=Foreign Policy|language=en|access-date=2019-05-19}} Despite their political differences, they remain very close.{{cite web | url=http://www.vogue.com/13380137/sisters-kori-kristina-schake-politics-liberal-democrat-republican/ | title=These Two Sisters Couldn't Be Closer—Or More Politically Opposed | work=Vogue | date=December 15, 2015 | access-date=December 27, 2016 | first=Meghan | last=Daum | author-link=Meghan Daum }}

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

• The National Security Imperative for a Trump Presidency, Foreign Affairs, November 8, 2024{{Cite news |last=Schake |first=Kori |date=2024-11-08 |title=The National Security Imperative for a Trump Presidency |url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/national-security-imperative-trump-presidency-kori-schake |access-date=2024-11-29 |work=Foreign Affairs |language=en-US |issn=0015-7120}}
• The Case for Conservative Internationalism, Foreign Affairs, December 4, 2023{{Cite news |last=Schake |first=Kori |date=2023-12-04 |title=The Case for Conservative Internationalism |url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/case-conservative-internationalism |access-date=2024-01-23 |work=Foreign Affairs |language=en-US |issue=January/February 2024 |issn=0015-7120}}
• "Choices for the Quadrennial Defense Review", Orbis, Summer 2009.

• {{cite book|editor1-last=Mattis|editor1-first=Jim| editor1-link =James Mattis|editor2-last=Schake|editor2-first=Kori|title=Warriors and Citizens: American Views of Our Military|date=August 2016|publisher=Hoover Institution|location=Stanford, California|isbn=978-0-8179-1934-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1gpmDAAAQBAJ|access-date=November 28, 2016}}
• State of Disrepair: Fixing the Culture and Practices of the State Department, (Hoover Institution 2012) {{ISBN|978-0-8179-1454-7}}.
• Managing American Hegemony: Essays on Power in a Time of Dominance, (Hoover Institution 2009) {{ISBN|978-0-8179-4902-0}}.
• The US Elections and Europe: The Coming Crisis of High Expectations, (Centre for European Reform, 2007).
• "[http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/6848072.html Dealing with a Nuclear Iran]," Policy Review (April/May 2007).
• "Jurassic Pork," The New York Times, 9 February 2006.
• "An American Eulogy for European Defence," in Anne Deighton, ed., Securing Europe? (ETH Zurich, 2006) {{ISBN|978-3-905696-11-0}}.
• "[https://web.archive.org/web/20080705051015/http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/2913101.html National Security: A Better Approach]," with Bruce Berkowitz, Hoover Digest (No. 4, 2005).
• "NATO Strategy and the German-American Relationship," in {{ill|Detlef Junker|de}}, ed., The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War (Cambridge University Press, 2004) {{ISBN|978-0-521-83420-9}}.
• The Berlin Wall Crisis, edited with John Gearson (Palgrave, 2002) {{ISBN|978-0-333-92960-5}}.
• "[https://web.archive.org/web/20090102085613/http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3459581.html How America Should Lead]," (with Klaus Becher), Policy Review (August/September 2002).
• Constructive Duplication: Reducing EU Reliance on US Military Assets (Centre for European Reform, January 2002).
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100313082558/http://www.ndu.edu/inss/McNair/mcnair64/McN64cont.html The Strategic Implications of a Nuclear-Armed Iran], with Judith S. Yaphe, McNair Paper 64 (National Defense University Press, 2001).
• "Arms Control After the Cold War: The Challenge of Diverging Security Agendas," in S. Victor Papacosma, Sean Kay, and Mark R. Rubin, eds., NATO After Fifty Years (2001) {{ISBN|978-0-8420-2886-8}}.
• Do European Union Defense Initiatives Threaten NATO? (Strategic Forum, National Defense University, August 2001).
• Evaluating NATO’s Efficiency in Crisis Management, Les Notes de L’IFRI, No 21 (Institute Francais des Relations Internationales, 2000).
• "NATO’s ‘Fundamental Divergence’ Over Proliferation," in Ted Galen Carpenter, ed., The Journal of Strategic Studies, special issue on NATO Enters the 21st Century (September 2000); also published as a book by Frank Cass, 2001.
• "Building A European Defense Capability," with Amaya Bloch-Laine and Charles Grant, in Survival (IISS, Spring 1999).
• "NATO Chronicle: New World Disorder," Joint Forces Quarterly (April 1999).
• Zwischen Weissen Haus und Pariser Platz – Washington und Berlin in Strategischer Allianz, in Ralph Thiele and Hans-Ulrich Seitz, eds., Heraus-Forderung Zukunft (Report Verlag, 1999).
• "The Dayton Peace Accords: Success or Failure?", in Kurt R. Spillmann and Joachim Krause, eds., International Security Challenges in a Changing World (Peter Lang, 1999) {{ISBN|978-3-906763-68-2}}.
• "NATO After the Cold War, 1991–1996: Institutional Competition and the Collapse of the French Alternative," Contemporary European History, Vol 7, Part 3 (November 1998).
• "Beyond Russia and China: A Survey of Threats to U.S. Security from Lesser States," in Challenging the United States Symmetrically and Asymmetrically: Can America Be Defeated?, Lloyd J. Matthews, ed., (U.S. Army War College, July 1998).
• Europe After NATO Expansion: The Unfinished Security Agenda (Policy Paper #38, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, February 1998).
• "The Breakup of Yugoslavia," in Roderick K. von Lipsey, ed., Breaking the Cycle: A Framework for Conflict Resolution (St. Martin's Press, 1997) {{ISBN|978-0-312-16253-5}}.
• "The Berlin Crises of 1948–49 and 1958–62," in Beatrice Heuser and Robert O’Neill, eds., Securing Peace in Europe, 1945–1962 (MacMillan, 1992) {{ISBN|978-0-312-06217-0}}.

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