Dr. Suzanne Loftus

Dr. Loftus

Dr. Suzanne Loftus – DOD

Associate Professor

Dr. Suzanne Loftus is Associate Professor of National Security Strategy at the National War College. She is also a Global Fellow and Member of the Advisory Council at the Kennan Institute. Prior to that, Suzanne worked as a professor at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany. Suzanne specializes in post-Soviet studies, Russian foreign policy and identity, transatlantic security and great power competition. Her latest book, Russia, China and the West in the Post – Cold War Era: The Limits of Liberal Universalism (Palgrave, 2023), is an analysis of the inadvertent consequences of the pursuit of liberal hegemony as an American foreign policy in the post-Cold War years and the concomitant effects of the rise of civilizational states such as Russia and China on the international system.

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Books

Russia, China and the West in the Post-War Era: The Limits of Liberal Universalism

Palgrave Macmillan, 22 May 2023

Book Press

Reviews: Springer Nature Link, by Richard Sakwa and Professor Mark Galeotti

Insecurity & The Rise of Nationalism in Putin's Russia: Keeper of Traditional Values

Palgrave Macmillan, 14 September 2018

Book Press

Reviews: Springer Nature Link, by Barry M. Blechman and Andrei P. Tsygankov

Other Selected Publications

Russia's "Holy War" against the West

Kennan Cable, Number 94, August 2024

Ensuring the Future of European Security Amidst a New Cold War with Russia

Kennan Cable, Number 89, March 2024

Ethnic Divisions and Ensuring Stability in Kazakhstan: A Guide for U.S. Policy

Quincy Institute Briefs, Number 42, 30 June 2023

America Cannot Compete with Russia and China for the Entirety of the Global South

The National Interest, 2 June 2023

Legitimacy and Societal Consent under Putin’s Leadership: State Capacity and National Identity – Abstract

Russian Politics, Volume 7, Issue 1, pp 1-130, 8 March 2022

Putin's Risk Calculus in Ukraine: Realism and Identity in Great Power Competition

E-International Relations, 11 March 2022

Democracy and Transatlantic Values in an Age of Great Power Competition

Orbis, Volume 65, Issue 2, pp 342-352, February 2021

Abstract: ScienceDirect

Renewing Leadership: Democratic Institutions Must Emerge Stronger from the Pandemic

Per Concordiam Journal of European Security and Defense, Volume 11, Issue 1, February 2021

Podcast Series

Security in the Twenty First Century

George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Hosted by Dr. Suzanne Loftus, Episodes 1-25, 2020-2022