David McKean was formerly Visiting Distinguished Fellow at GMF.
McKean is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, Duke University Law School, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
He has contributed articles to a number of publications, including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Barrons, The Washington Post, and Politico. He is also the author of six books, including Partners of First Resort: America, Europe and the Future of the West (Brookings Press, March 2021), and Watching Darkness Fall: FDR, His Ambassadors and the Rise of Adolf Hitler (November 2021, St. Martins Press).
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April 25, 2022
I had forgotten about an email I received last summer from my literary agent informing me that a publishing house in Ukraine had bought the rights to...
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March 10, 2021
In what ways might the U.S.-EU partnership still provide the “core transatlantic engine to drive the greater process” of global multilateralism?...
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January 26, 2021
Princeton University's Center for International Security Studies hosted a thought-provoking discussion with authors David McKean and Bart M.J....
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September 24, 2020
How Europe and the United States Can Renew Their Alliance...
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February 7, 2019
His words and actions have created greater risk that we could wind up in direct military conflict with our four-decade rival....
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April 17, 2018
For any aspiring Paul Revere sounding the alarm on nuclear nonproliferation, after more than a year of setbacks, the most promising news this month is...
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September 7, 2017
For the past seven months, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has submissively accepted the role of a second-tier cabinet official complicit in making...