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Edward Nicolae Luttwak (born 1942) is an economist
and historian known for his many publications on
military strategy and international relations.

Luttwak was born in Arad, Romania|Arad, Romania,
and later attended the London School of Economics
and Johns Hopkins University, where he received a
doctorate. His first academic post was at the
University of Bath. As of 2004, he is a Senior
Fellow at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies in Washington, D.C..

He has served as a consultant to the Office of the
Secretary of Defense, the National Security
Council, and the U.S. Department of State. He is a
member of the National Security Study Group of the
U.S. Department of Defense, and an associate of
the Japan Finance Ministry's Institute of Fiscal
and Monetary Policy.

Luttwak is a frequent lecturer and consultant, and
has developed a reputation for offbeat proposals
intended to provoke thought, for instance
suggesting that major powers' attempts to quell
regional wars actually make the wars more intense.
His book Coup d'etat is perhaps his best-known
work; it has been reprinted numerous times, and
translated into 14 languages.

The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire from the
First Century AD to the Third has stirred a lot of
controversy among professional historians. Luttwak
is seen as an outsider and non-specialist in the
field, but his book has raised a lot of questions
and created a whole new wave of scholarship on the
Roman army and barbarians on the frontier. Luttwak
asked simply "How did the Romans defend the
frontier?", a question that had been lost in the
noise of professional discourse of demographics
and economics and sociology. Soldiers were trained
to kill and destroy, that was their purpose,
Luttwak brought that back into the debate.

He serves on the editorial boards of Geopolitique
(France), the Journal of Strategic Studies, and
the Washington Quarterly.  He speaks English
language|English, French language|French, Italian
language|Italian, and Spanish language|Spanish.

== Books ==

* A Dictionary of Modern War (London 1971), ISBN
0713901306
* The Strategic Balance, 1972 (1972), ISBN
0912050330
* The Political Uses of Sea Power (Baltimore,
1974), ISBN 0801816580
* The US - USSR Nuclear Weapons Balance (Beverly
Hills, 1974), ISBN 0803900961
* The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire from the
First Century AD to the Third (USA, 1976), ISBN
0801821584
* Strategic Power: Military Capabilities and
Political Utility (California, 1976), ISBN
0803906595
* Coup d'etat: A Practical Handbook (London 1979),
ISBN 0674175476
* Sea Power in the Mediterranean: Political
Utility and Military Constraints (California
1979), ISBN 0819160105
* The Israeli Army (with Dan Horowitz) (Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 1983), ISBN 0060127236
* The Grand Strategy of the Soviet Union (London,
1983), ISBN 0312342608
* The Pentagon and the Art of War (New York,
1984), ISBN 0671617702
* Strategy and History (New Jersey, 1985), ISBN
0887380654
* Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace (Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 1987), ISBN 0674007034
* The Endangered American Dream: How to Stop the
United States From Being a Third World Country and
How to Win the Geo-Economic Struggle for
Industrial Supremacy (New York, 1993), ISBN
0671869639
* Turbo-Capitalism: winners and losers in the
global economy (HarperCollins, 1999), ISBN
0060193301

== External link ==

* http://www.csis.org/experts/4luttwak.htm
Luttwak's page at CSIS