A. Trevor Thrall
A. Trevor Thrall
Associate Professor, George Mason University (website)  ||  Senior Fellow, Cato Institute (website)
twitter: @trevor_thrall           web: trevorthrall.com
email: athrall [at] gmu [dot] edu
phone: (703) 993-3724
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Trevor Thrall is an associate professor at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government where he teaches courses in international security. He is also a senior fellow for the Cato Institute’s Defense and Foreign Policy Department, with expertise in international security and the politics of American national security. 
 
Thrall’s current research includes work on the role of arms sales in U.S. foreign policy, shifting American attitudes toward foreign policy, and the debate over American grand strategy. His recent edited volume, U.S. Grand Strategy in the 21st Century: The Case for Restraint, offers a critique of current American foreign policy and makes the case for a more restrained approach.
 
Thrall has also published articles in a range of academic journals and his shorter commentary on foreign affairs has appeared in a number of publications including the Atlantic, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Foreign Policy, Detroit News, Huffington Post, War on the Rocks, and The National Interest.
 
Thrall is also the co-host of the Power Problems podcast, a biweekly podcast which explores key questions in international security with guests from across the political spectrum.
 
Thrall holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in political science from M.I.T.


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