Matthew Kroenig
Professor of Government, Georgetown University
Chapter Member: Maryland-Washington, D.C. SSN
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About Matthew
Kroenig's research focuses on US national security policy, great power competition with China, nuclear strategy and weapons proliferation, Iran, democracy, and other topics. He has previously served in a variety of roles in the US Department of Defense and the intelligence community in the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations and regularly consults with the US government. A 2019 study in Perspectives on Politics ranked him as one of the top 25 most-cited political scientists of his generation.
Contributions
In the News
Opinion: "Withdrawal from Russia Nuclear Treaty is Right Move for America," Matthew Kroenig, The Hill, October 24, 2018.
Research discussed by , in "This is Exactly How a Nuclear War Would Kill You," Vox, October 19, 2018.
Quoted by Jan Hartman in "The U.S. Considered the Consequences of a Nuclear Strike on Russia," The Silver Telegram, May 8, 2018.
Interviewed in "Where Do Relations Stand between U.S. and N. Korea after the Olympics?," CBS News, February 27, 2018.
Research discussed by "Possible Thawing of Tensions between North and South Korea," CBS News, January 6, 2018.
Opinion: "North Korea Tested an ICBM. Iran is Next," Matthew Kroenig, Tablet Magazine, July 26, 2017.
Opinion: "Washington Must Respond to Russia’s New Nuclear Missile," Matthew Kroenig, Atlantic Council, February 14, 2017.
Guest on PBS News Hour, December 23, 2016.
Quoted by Luke Tress in "Pulling the Punchlines, NY Comedy Club Plays Host to Iran Deal Debate," Times of Israel, September 6, 2015.
Opinion: "Why Democracies Dominate: America’s Edge over China," Matthew Kroenig, The National Interest, June 15, 2015.
Guest on Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy Podcast, May 19, 2015.
Quoted by Glenn Kessler in "Tom Cotton’s Four-Day War against Iran," The Washington Post, April 9, 2015.
Opinion: "Apply More Pressure on Iran: Opposing View," Matthew Kroenig, USA Today, November 25, 2014.
Guest on This Week in Defense News, November 27, 2013.
Guest on NPR’s Talk of the Nation, May 22, 2012.
Opinion: "Obama Needs to Tell Iran where He Draws the Line," Matthew Kroenig, Washington Post, May 19, 2012.
Guest on C-SPAN, April 5, 2012.
Quoted by Edward Stourton in "Does America and Iran’s Mutual Mistrust Mean War is Inevitable?," BBC News, March 19, 2012.
Guest on NPR’s Talk of the Nation, March 6, 2012.
Guest on C-SPAN, February 21, 2012.
Opinion: "Nuclear Zero? Why Not Nuclear Infinity?," Matthew Kroenig, Wall Street Journal, July 30, 2011.
Opinion: "Kenya's Real Problem (It's Not Ethnic)," Matthew Kroenig (with ), Washington Post, January 9, 2008.
Publications
"Reaching Beyond the Ivory Tower: A How To Manual" (with ). Security Studies 25, no. 2 (2016): 289-319.
"A Time to Attack: The Looming Iranian Nuclear Threat" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014).
Argues that a limited U.S. military strike on Iran’s key nuclear facilities would be preferable to acquiescing to a nuclear-armed Iran in the event that diplomacy fails to head off the Iranian nuclear challenge.
"Nuclear Superiority and the Balance of Resolve: Explaining Nuclear Crisis Outcomes" International Organization 67, no. 1 (2013): 141-171.
Presents a theoretical explanation and evidence to show that states with a nuclear advantage over an opponent are more likely to achieve their political goals in international crises.
"How to Deter Terrorism" (with ). The Washington Quarterly 35, no. 2 (2012): 21-36.
Provides a comprehensive strategy for deterring terrorist networks.
"Importing the Bomb: Sensitive Nuclear Assistance and Nuclear Proliferation" Journal of Conflict Resolution 53, no. 2 (2009): 161-180.
Presents systematic evidence to show that the transfer of sensitive nuclear material and technology between states increases the risk of nuclear proliferation.
"War Makes the State, but Not as It Pleases: Homeland Security and American Anti-Statism" (with ). Security Studies 15, no. 2 (2006): 225-270.
Shows that U.S. domestic political institutions curtailed the expansion of executive branch power in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks.