Power Reset:
Multipolar World Order
Christopher Preble, Senior Fellow and Director of the Reimagining US Grand Strategy program at the Stimson Center, and co-host of the “Net Assessment” podcast
Event partners | World Affairs Councils of America Engage America Series & The Quincy Institute Better Order Project
October 23, 2025
Dennos Museum Center Milliken Auditorium, Traverse City, MI
In person & online
EVENT PARTNER
Thursday, October 23, 2025
7:00 pm Eastern US program | 6:00 pm reception
Dennos Museum Center Milliken Auditorium
1701 E. Front St. Traverse City, MI
Hybrid event |
in-person audience and online livestream
In-person admission |
$15 per person, advance purchase | $20 at venue
Online admission |
$10 per person | watch online
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free admission for current students and educators, including NMC and area secondary schools.
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About the speaker
Christopher Preble
Christopher Preble is the Senior Fellow and Director of the Reimagining US Grand Strategy program at the Stimson Center, and co-host of the “Net Assessment” podcast. In his role, he leads a team of scholars who challenge prevailing assumptions surrounding US foreign policy, and who offer a range of policy options that go beyond the use of force and coercion. His own work focuses on the history of US foreign policy, contemporary US grand strategy and military force posture, alliance relations, and the intersection of trade and national security.
Preble is the author of four books, including Peace, War, and Liberty: Understanding U.S. Foreign Policy (Cato Institute, 2019); and The Power Problem: How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous, and Less Free (Cornell University Press, 2009). He co-authored, with John Glaser and A. Trevor Thrall, Fuel to the Fire: How Trump Made America’s Broken Foreign Policy even Worse and How We Can Recover (Cato Institute, 2019), and he has also co-edited several other books and monographs, including A Dangerous World? Threat Perception and U.S. National Security (Cato Institute, 2014), with John Mueller. His work has appeared in major publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, Survival, Foreign Policy, and Foreign Affairs.
Prior to joining the Stimson Center, Preble served as Co-Director of the Atlantic Council’s New American Engagement Initiative. He was vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute from 2011 to 2020, and director of foreign policy studies from 2003 to 2011. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
In addition to his policy work, he has taught history and political science at the University of California, Washington Center, St. Cloud State University, and Temple University. Preble graduated from George Washington University in 1989 and received a PhD in history from Temple University in 2002. He was a commissioned officer in the US Navy, and served aboard the USS Ticonderoga (CG-47) from 1990 to 1993.
