Laurent Murawiec taught philosophy, was a foreign correspondent, co-founded and managed a consulting company for geopolitical and geoeconomic affairs, and taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en sciences sociales. He has served as a consultant for the French Ministry of Defense and as a Senior International Policy Analyst with the RAND Corporation and is currently a senior Fellow of the Hudson Institute. He is the author of La Guerre au XXIe Siecle (2000), L'Esprit des Nations: Cultures et Geopolitique (2002), La Guerre d'Apres (2003), and Vulnerabilities in the Chinese Way of War (2004), as