Wess Mitchell Archives

December 12, 2019

The Middle East in an Era of Great Power Competition, Hoover Institute

Hoover Institution | In 1920, a young Winston Churchill wrote a memorandum to the Cabinet outlining his concerns about British policy in the Middle East...
October 1, 2019

The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire

Princeton University Press | The Habsburg Empire's grand strategy for outmaneuvering and outlasting stronger rivals in a complicated geopolitical world...
April 12, 2019

Rethinking Metternich, Standpoint Magazine

Standpoint Magazine | “The historian is not yet born,” the Austrian state chancellor Clemens Wenzel von Metternich complained in 1829, “who will describe the numerous events....
August 15, 2017

The Unquiet Frontier: Rising Rivals, Vulnerable Allies, and the Crisis of American Power

Princeton University Press | The Unquiet Frontier: Rising Rivals, Vulnerable Allies, and the Crisis of American Power. How America's vulnerable frontier allies—and American power—are being targeted by rival nations