Ted Galen Carpenter is a senior fellow for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute.

Carpenter served as Cato's director of foreign policy studies from 1986 to 1995 and as vice president for defense and foreign policy studies from 1995 to 2011. He is the author of many books, including "NATO: The Dangerous Dinosaur," "Gullible Superpower: U.S. Support for Bogus Foreign Democratic Movements," and "The Ties That Blind: How the U.S.-Saudi Alliance Damages Liberty and Security."

He also is the editor of many books on international issues, including "NATO’s Empty Victory: A Postmortem on the Balkan War," "Delusions of Grandeur: The United Nations and Global Intervention," and "America Entangled: The Persian Gulf Crisis and Its Consequences."

Carpenter is contributing editor to both the National Interest and American Conservative, serves on the editorial boards of Mediterranean Quarterly and the Journal of Strategic Studies, and is the author of more than 800 articles and policy studies. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the National Interest, World Policy Journal, and many other publications. He is a frequent guest on radio and television programs in the United States, Latin America, Europe, East Asia, and other regions.

Carpenter received his Ph.D. in U.S. diplomatic history from the University of Texas.

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