Seth Cropsey

Expertise

• Maritime strategy
• Central Europe/East Asia
• Naval Special Operations

Seth Cropsey has been a senior advisor at CNA’s Center for Naval Analyses since 2005, where he participated in and drafted a study on the global strategic landscape in the third decade of the 21st century. Prior to joining CNA, he was a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, where he authored a study on future European security for the Secretary of Defense. He has lectured at Oxford, the Ecole Militaire, the NATO School at Oberammergau, Taiwan’s National Defense University, and U.S. colleges and universities. His articles have been published in such journals and newspapers as Foreign Affairs, World Affairs, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The Weekly Standard. He is currently writing a book on the decline of American sea power.

Recent Work

• "China’s Regional Ambitions Threaten U.S. Allies,” Pajamas Media, 20 January 2011.
• “Anchors Away: American Seapower in Dry Dock,” World Affairs, Vol. 173, #5, January-February 2011.
• “Merkel’s Message to the West,” Pajamas Media, 26 October 2010.
• “Keeping the Pacific Pacific,” Foreign Affairs, 27 September 2010.
   

Education: St. Johns College B.A; Boston College M.A; University of Cluj Ph.D. candidate, public defense of dissertation scheduled for summer 2011

Languages: Romanian, French, German

Publications of Interest

• “Ebb Tide,” The American Interest, Vol. VI, No. 1, September/October 2010.
• “Turkey Slouches Toward Iran,” The Weekly Standard, 1 June 2010.
• “Major Speech on Shrinking U.S. Seapower Goes Ignored,” Pajamas Media, 18 May 2010.
• “The Tipping Point,” The Weekly Standard, 30 April 2010.
• “Remedial Diplomacy,” The Weekly Standard, 22 March 2010.
• “The U.S. Navy in Distress,” Strategic Analysis, January 2010.