Zack Cooper is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he studies U.S. strategy in Asia. He also teaches at Princeton University, is a partner with Armitage International, and co-hosts the Net Assessment podcast for War on the Rocks. Prior to joining AEI, he worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
Cooper also previously served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon and on the National Security Council staff at the White House. He graduated from Princeton University with a Ph.D. in Security Studies and an M.P.A. in International Relations, and received a B.A. in public policy from Stanford University. He is currently completing a book that explains how nations and their militaries change during power shifts.
