Emma Ashford
Foreign policy analyst; Stimson Center senior fellow and Foreign Policy columnist.
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- Emma Ashford is a senior fellow with the Reimagining US Grand Strategy program at the Stimson Center, working on grand strategy, international security and US foreign policy.
- She is a columnist at Foreign Policy and an adjunct assistant professor in Georgetown University's Security Studies Program.
- Her books are Oil, the State, and War (2022) and First Among Equals: U.S.
- Foreign Policy for a Multipolar World (2025).
Key facts
- Current roles
- Senior fellow, Stimson Center; columnist, Foreign Policy; adjunct assistant professor, Georgetown Security Studies Program1
- Books
- Oil, the State, and War: The Foreign Policies of Petrostates (Georgetown University Press, 2022); First Among Equals: U.S. Foreign Policy for a Multipolar World (Yale University Press, 2025)1
- Earlier
- Senior fellow, Atlantic Council New American Engagement Initiative; research fellow, Cato Institute; term member, Council on Foreign Relations; nonresident fellow, Modern War Institute at West Point1
- Education
- PhD in foreign affairs, University of Virginia1
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