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# Christopher Layne 

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Christopher Layne is University Distinguished Professor of International Affairs and Robert M. Gates Chair in National Security at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. His fields of interest are international relations theory, great power politics, U.S. foreign policy, transatlantic security relations, and grand strategy.

Layne has written two books: *The Peace of Illusions: American Grand Strategy from 1940 to the Present* (Cornell University Press, 2006) and (with Bradley A. Thayer) *American Empire: A Debate* (Routledge, 2006). Additionally, he has contributed extensively to the debates about international relations theory and American foreign policy in such scholarly and policy journals as *International Security, International History Review, Security Studies, Journal of Strategic Studies*, the *National Interest, Foreign Policy*, the *Washington Quarterly, World Policy Journal*, and *Orbis*. Layne has been a frequent contributor to *The Atlantic*, the *New Republic, The Nation*, the *Financial Times*, the *New York Times*, the *Los Angeles Times*, the *Washington Post*, and *The Australian*. He also is a contributing editor for *The American Conservative*.

Layne is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He received his PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and holds a Diploma in Historical Studies from the University of Cambridge.

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