Paul D. Miller

Paul D. Miller is an American academic, writer, and former White House staffer for Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. He is a professor in the Practice of International Affairs at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. He is a former associate director of The William P. Clements Jr. Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin. He formerly worked as an adjunct political scientist at the RAND Corporation. He is a reserve Army officer and veteran of the War in Afghanistan. Miller's writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, The American Interest, World Affairs, The Washington Quarterly, War on the Rocks, and elsewhere.

Education Dr. Miller received his PhD in International Relations from Georgetown University and a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. His BA in Political Theory is also from Georgetown University. Miller's proposed solution is greater attention to reconstruction and stabilization in Afghanistan. He has criticized the views of conservatives, like George Will, as well as moderates and liberals, like David Rothkopf, who argue the war effort in Afghanistan is unwinnable for the U.S.

Publications Books "The Religion of American Greatness: What’s Wrong with Christian Nationalism", Inter Varsity Press Academic, 2022 American Power and Liberal Order: A Conservative Internationalist Grand Strategy, Georgetown University Press, 2016 Armed State Building: Confronting State Failure, 1898 - 2012, Cornell University Press, 2013 Necessary War: What America Needs to Know About the War in Afghanistan, The Cicero Press, 2012