Danielle Pletka

Danielle Pletka is a distinguished senior fellow in foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, where she was previously SVP of foreign and defense policy studies. She also teaches US Middle East policy at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. Pletka was a senior staff member for the Middle East and South Asia for the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1992 to 2002. She has authored texts including the introduction to Seven Pillars: What Really Causes Instability in the Middle East and the chapter “America in Decline” in Debating the Obama Presidency. Pletka appears frequently on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” and has been published in The Wall Street Journal and The Hill, among others. She co-hosts the podcast, “What the Hell Is Going On?”