Charles Kupchan is Professor of International Affairs in Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service and Department of Government and a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. From 2014 to 2017 he served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council in the Obama White House. He was also NSC Director for European Affairs during the first Clinton administration, after working on the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff. His latest book, Bringing Order to Anarchy: Governing the World to Come (Yale University Press, October 2026), diagnoses today’s global disarray and proposes a network of high-level steering groups, modeled on the 19th-century Concert of Europe, to anchor an emerging multipolar world. His earlier books include Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself from the World (2020), No One’s World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn (2012), How Enemies Become Friends (2010), and The End of the American Era (2002). He holds a B.A. from Harvard and M.Phil. and D.Phil. degrees from Oxford.
