Mathew Burrows
Mathew Burrows serves as counselor in the Executive Office at the Stimson Center and program lead of the Strategic Foresight Hub. He works with a broad range of partners, including the US government, other governments, businesses, nongovernmental organizations, and foundations on analyzing trends and possible scenarios and their broad implications. He is coauthor of a 2023 book on the United States and China sliding into war, Die Traumwandler: Wie China und die USA in einen neuen Weltkrieg schlittern. In August 2013, he retired from a twenty-eight-year career in the State Department and CIA, the last ten of which were spent at the National Intelligence Council.
Author's Articles
Elizabeth Saunders’ “The Insiders’ Game”
Mara Karlin and Mathew Burrows review "The Insiders' Game," a book exploring how democratic elites—including legislators, military leaders, and civilian officials—constrain presidential decision-making in war.
Correspondence: Fixing the Current System or Moving Toward a Value-Based Globalization?
In this issue’s correspondence section, Mathew Burrows and Robert Manning respond to Aaron Friedberg’s article on the future of globalization, published in Vol 5, Iss 1 of TNSR. Friedberg, in turn, offers his own rebuttal.