Kyle Haynes - Defense Priorities

Alliances, Deterrence, Diplomacy, Grand strategy, and Great power competition

Kyle Haynes

Non-Resident Fellow

Kyle Haynes is a non-resident fellow at Defense Priorities and an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Purdue University.

Haynes focuses his research on international security, with particular emphases on conflict, bargaining, great power politics, and U.S. foreign policy. He has published his research in the American Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, and several other outlets. He earned his BA from the University of Delaware and his MA and PhD from the University of Virginia.

op-edGrand strategy, Alliances, Europe and Eurasia, Global posture

What Trump gets right, and wrong, in cutting U.S. security costs abroad

By Kyle Haynes

February 25, 2025

Vice President JD Vance has caused a firestorm in recent weeks after lecturing European leaders at the Munich Security Conference and then threatening to […]

op-edEurope and Eurasia, Burden sharing, NATO, Russia, Ukraine