Iskander Rehman

Iskander Rehman is an Ax:son Johnson Fellow at the Kissinger Center for Global Affairs and Senior Fellow for Strategic Studies at the American Foreign Policy Council. His work focuses on applied history, grand strategy, and US defense strategy in Asia. Over the course of his career, he has held fellowships at a number of different think-tanks, such as the Brookings Institution, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States. His first book, entitled “Planning for Protraction: A Historically Informed Approach to Great Power War and Sino-US Competition,” was published in November 2023 as part of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Adelphi series. His current book project, Phoenix Lords: Three Ministers, an Empire Shattered and a Kingdom Reforged is a work of narrative nonfiction, and tells the story of more than a century of bitter Franco-Spanish rivalry through the lives of three legendary figures in the annals of French statecraft: Sully, Richelieu, and Mazarin. Iskander lives in Washington DC, and holds a Ph.D., with distinction, from the Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), in Paris.