Moritz S. Graefrath

Moritz S. Graefrath, PhD, is an international relations scholar who focuses on US grand strategy, great power politics, international cooperation, and global governance. He shares IGA’s mission of testing foreign policy assumptions and challenging preconceived wisdom, and his research on the causes and consequences of great power decline is particularly relevant to contemporary policy discussions. Moritz is a postdoctoral fellow in security and foreign policy at William & Mary’s Global Research Institute and an affiliate scholar with the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame. From Fall 2025, he will be the Wick Cary Assistant Profesor of International Security at the University of Oklahoma’s College of International Studies.