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John Glaser

Host, Power Problems Podcast

John Glaser is the host of Cato’s Power Problems podcast. He is an expert on U.S. foreign policy. He was director of foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute from 2016 to 2021, and his research has focused on grand strategy, U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, the rise of China, and the role of status and prestige motivations in international politics.

Glaser has been a guest on a variety of television and radio programs, including Fox News, MSNBC, and NPR, and has had his work published in the New York Times, the Washington PostUSA Today, the Los Angeles Times, and Foreign Affairs, among other outlets. He is the coauthor, with Christopher A. Preble and A. Trevor Thrall, of Fuel to the Fire: How Trump Made America’s Broken Foreign Policy Even Worse (and How We Can Recover) (Cato Institute, 2019). He also contributed a chapter to Libertarianism.org’s Visions of Liberty.

Glaser earned an MA in international security at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University and a BA in political science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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