Emma Ashford
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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.
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4 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Current roles: Senior fellow, Stimson Center; columnist, Foreign Policy; adjunct assistant professor, Georgetown Security Studies Program (opens wiqqi.app)
- 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) (opens wiqqi.app)
- 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… (opens wiqqi.app)
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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x.com: @EmmaMAshford (opens x.com)
“Happy Halloween from our newest family members!”
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Newsletter: What Is To Be Done? (opens emmamashford.substack.com)
“Twenty-Five Years”
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x.com: @EmmaMAshford (opens x.com)
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10 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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The structure of US policymaking incentivizes the use of force and makes it harder for presidents to retreat from their mistakes. (opens korrents.com)
“But as I explore in the article, the structure of US policymaking incentivizes the use of force, while making it harder for presidents to retreat from their mistakes.”
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The 2026 war on Iran shows the utter failure of the hawkish maximum-pressure strategy. (opens korrents.com)
“Thus far, the central conclusion I am drawing from this war is the utter failure of the hawkish “maximum pressure” strategy against Iran.”
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In the Gulf, the United States has gone from firefighter to arsonist. (opens korrents.com)
“There’s going to be some great studies written about this era, but one factor I think is currently underplayed is how much the United States, which was always assumed in such studies to be the firefighter for crisis in…”
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The structure of US policymaking incentivizes the use of force and makes it harder for presidents to retreat from their mistakes. (opens korrents.com)
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2 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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A Superpower Transformed (opens rcmnd.app)
“Well, on the Nixon point, actually, I've been reading a great book, um, A Superpower Transformed by Dan Sergeant, um, which basically looks at all of those overlapping changes that happened in the 1970s through Nixon…”
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A World Safe for Commerce (opens rcmnd.app)
“Um and then finally um I would say a world safe for commerce by Dell Copeland which is this uh lengthy historical treatment of how the US um and its foreign policy have been impacted by our trade with other countries…”
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A Superpower Transformed (opens rcmnd.app)