Gallagher is a writer, analyst, and editor who focuses on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, forever wars, and the geopolitics of the emergent multipolar world. He is also interested in international relations theory and the political economy of great power competition. His writing and analysis on foreign policy, international relations, and U.S. politics have appeared in the Washington Post, Newsweek, the Hill, the National Interest, World Politics Review, the American Prospect, the Diplomat, Voice of America, Real Clear World, Small Wars Journal, the Huffington Post, International Policy Digest, the Progressive, Asia Times, Indo-Asian News Service, the International Business Times and for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Urban History Association, among other outlets. In this work, he has argued for a more restrained U.S. foreign policy that protects Americans’ interests and promotes global peace and security.

Adam has worked for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Middle East program, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, and as an analyst at a defense consultancy monitoring local and international media reporting on Afghanistan. He has been an accredited election observer in Tunisia (2014), Myanmar (2015), and Liberia (2017) and was a recipient of the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship.

Adam holds a bachelor’s degree with honors in political science and philosophy from Ohio Northern University and a master’s degree in international relations from George Mason University.