RAND Expert Biography
Karl P. Mueller
Political Scientist, RAND Corporation; Adjunct Associate Professor, Georgetown University
Office
Washington
Expertise
Airpower, space weapons, coercion and deterrence, terrorism, alliances and coalitions, preemption and preventive war, u.S. grand strategy, military strategy, nuclear strategy, legal and moral issues in foreign policy
Recent Work
Preemptive attack; space weapons; counterterrorism strategies; WMD proliferation; counterinsurgency; future uses of U.S. military power
Education
Ph.D. in politics, Princeton University; B.A., University of Chicago
Publications of Interest
Striking First: Preemptive and Preventive Attack in U.S. National Security Policy, Karl P. Mueller et al., RAND Corporation, 2006
"The Paradox of Liberal Hegemony: Globalization and U.S. National Security," Karl P. Mueller, in Jonathan Kirshner, ed., Globalization and National Security, Routledge, 2006
Air Power in the New Counterinsurgency Era: The Strategic Importance of USAF Advisory and Assistance Missions, Alan J. Vick et al., RAND Corporation, 2006
"Totem and Taboo: Depolarizing the Space Weaponization Debate," Karl P. Mueller, Astropolitics, Vol. 1, No. 1, Summer 2003 (available as RAND reprint)
Conventional Coercion Across the Spectrum of Operations: The Utility of Military Force in the Emerging Security Environment, David Johnson et al., RAND Corporation, 2002
Recent RAND Publications are listed here.
Recent Media Appearances
Interviews: Boston Globe; Houston Chronicle; Kansas City Star; New York Times; Newsweek; NPR; Pacifica Radio Network; Washington Times
Commentary: Aftenposten (Oslo); Atlantic Monthly; Issues in Science and Technology; Los Angeles Times
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