# Joseph Stieb Joseph Stieb is a historian of U.S. foreign policy and an Assistant Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College. He is the author of *The Regime Change Consensus: Iraq in American Politics, 1990 to 2003*, and writes frequently on the Iraq War, the War on Terror, and the politics of American interventionism. ## Relevance to the KB Stieb appears in the knowledge base as a foreign-policy historian commenting on the Republican Party's evolution under [[Donald Trump]]. On the [[Trump-Iran MOU 2026]], he observed that the deal made it seem "like the last 40 years of the Republican Party's foreign policy didn't happen" — a concise framing of the populist break with post-Reagan GOP hawkishness. ## See Also - [[Iran War 2026]] - [[Trump-Iran MOU 2026]]