Stephen Wertheim

Stephen Wertheim is an American historian and foreign policy scholar who serves as a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His research explores the history of American foreign policy, particularly the origins and consequences of US global military dominance. Wertheim's work challenges conventional narratives about American internationalism, offering provocative, rigorously argued perspectives on how and why the United States became the world's dominant military power. His books and audiobooks offer readers and listeners important, thought-provoking scholarship on one of the defining questions of modern geopolitics.