Paul Lettow

Paul Lettow is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he focuses on U.S. foreign policy and strategic competition with China and Russia. He is concurrently a senior fellow at the America in the World Consortium. Dr. Lettow is writing a book on U.S. national security strategy from Truman to today.

He served on the National Security Council staff at the White House as senior director for strategic planning from 2007-09. He has also worked at the U.S. State Department. He then practiced law in Washington, D.C., for 15 years. Dr. Lettow is the author of the book Ronald Reagan and His Quest to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and several reports and book chapters, including Strengthening the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime (Council on Foreign Relations). His articles include “U.S. National Security Strategy: Lessons Learned” in Texas National Security Review and “Have We Hit Peak America? The Sources of U.S. Power and the Path to National Renaissance” in Foreign Policy.

He serves as a director of the Alexander Hamilton Society, the American Friends of Christ Church (Oxford), and Busy Way Farms, Inc. Dr. Lettow received an A.B. in history from Princeton University, a D.Phil. in international relations from Oxford University (Christ Church), and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.