Paul Miller
Professor of the Practice and Co-Chair for Global Politics and Security, Senior Fellow, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, Atlantic Council
Dr. Paul D. Miller is a scholar and public servant devoted to ordered liberty at home and abroad.
As a scholar, Dr. Miller is a political theorist and political scientist focusing on international affairs, the American experiment, and America's role in the world. He is a Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He serves as co-chair of the Global Politics and Security concentration in the MSFS program. He is also the General Hugh Shelton Visiting Chair in Ethics at the US Army's Command and General Staff College Foundation at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas.
As a practitioner, Dr. Miller served as Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan on the National Security Council staff; worked as an intelligence analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency; and served as a military intelligence officer in the U.S. Army.
His most recent book, Choosing Defeat: The Twenty-Year Saga of How America Lost Afghanistan, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2025. He is also the author of The Religion of American Greatness: What's Wrong With Christian Nationalism, (IVP Academic, 2022); Just War and Ordered Liberty (Cambridge, 2021); American Power and Liberal Order (Georgetown, 2016); and Armed State Building (Cornell, 2013). Miller taught at The University of Texas at Austin and the National Defense University and worked at the RAND Corporation prior to his arrival at Georgetown.
Miller's writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Survival, The Dispatch, Presidential Studies Quarterly, The Journal of Strategic Studies, Orbis, The American Interest, The National Interest, The World Affairs Journal, Small Wars and Insurgencies, and elsewhere. Miller holds a PhD in international relations and a BA in government from Georgetown University, and a master in public policy from Harvard University.
He is a contributing writer to The Dispatch, a non-resident Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and a research fellow at the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.