Libertarianism and War

Christopher A. Preble

Christopher Preble is senior fellow and director of the Reimagining US Grand Strategy Program at the Stimson Center. He is the author of Peace, War, and Liberty (2019) and co-​author, with John Glaser and A. Trevor Thrall, of Fuel to the Fire: How Trump Made America’s Broken Foreign Policy Even Worse (and How We Can Recover) (2019). Preble was formerly the vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, and he holds a PhD in history from Temple University.

In the second lecture in the “Exploring Liberty” series, Christopher A. Preble, the author of The Power Problem: How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous, and Less Free, gives an introduction to how American libertarians have historically felt about wars and military intervention abroad.

Video produced by Evan Banks.