Daniel Bessner is the Anne H.H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Associate Professor in American Foreign Policy in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He is the author of Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual (Cornell, 2018); co-editor, with Nicolas Guilhot, of The Decisionist Imagination: Sovereignty, Social Science, and Democracy in the Twentieth Century (Berghahn, 2019); co-editor, with Michael Brenes, of Rethinking U.S. World Power: Domestic Histories of U.S. Foreign Relations (Palgrave, 2024); co-editor, with Michael Brenes, of Cold War Liberalism: Power in a Time of Emergency (Cambridge, 2026); and author of Imperialist Realism: Politics and Culture at the End of the American Century (Zero, 2026). In 2019-2020, he served as a foreign policy advisor to Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign, He is also the co-host of the foreign affairs podcast American Prestige.