Peter Juul is the Director of National Security at the Progressive Policy Institute. In this role, Peter aims to craft a new foreign policy narrative that reaffirms the vital importance of active American engagement in the world and backs it up with substantive analysis of key issues relating to the defense of America’s interests, values, and prosperity.
A veteran for nearly two decades of the politics and policy world in Washington, DC, Peter previously worked on foreign policy and national security at the Center for American Progress and edited the start-up online politics and policy publication The Liberal Patriot. In both positions, Peter focused on the politics of national security, Middle East strategy, and defense issues as well as pursuing personal interests in aerospace policy and space exploration.
Peter has written and published widely, with pieces appearing in venues ranging from Foreign Policy and Middle East Policy Journal to Wired, The American Prospect, and Democracy Journal. His expert analysis has also been featured in newspapers like the New York Times and Philadelphia Inquirer.
Peter holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and international relations from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, as well as a master’s degree in security studies from Georgetown University. He lives in Falls Church, Virginia with his goldendoodle pup, Buddy, and can often be found watching Minnesota Twins baseball, visiting the National Air and Space Museum, or listening to the music of Prince and Taylor Swift.
