Christopher Coyne is a non–resident fellow at the Quincy Institute and a professor of economics at George Mason University, Associate Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center, and Director of the Initiative for the Study of a Stable Peace (ISSP) through the Hayek Program. Coyne is the author or co–author of How to Run Wars: A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite (2024, Independent Institute), In Search of Monsters to Destroy: The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace (2022, Independent Institute), Manufacturing Militarism: U.S. Government Propaganda in the War on Terror (2021, Stanford University Press), Tyranny Comes Home: The Domestic Fate of U.S. Militarism, (2018, Stanford University Press), Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails (2013, Stanford University Press), and After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy (2007, Stanford University Press). Coyne has edited numerous books and has authored numerous academic articles, book chapters, and policy studies.