Christopher Preble is the vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. He is the co-author, with John Glaser 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), and the author of four other books, including Peace, War, and Liberty: Understanding U.S. Foreign Policy (Libertarianism.org, 2019) and The Power Problem: How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous, and Less Free (Cornell University Press, 2009). He coedited, with John Mueller, A Dangerous World? Threat Perception and U.S. National Security (Cato Institute, 2014); and, with Benjamin H. Friedman and Jim Harper, Terrorizing Ourselves: Why U.S. Counterterrorism Policy Is Failing and How to Fix It (Cato Institute, 2010).

Preble holds a PhD in history from Temple University.