Hunter has authored more than 1000 publications, written for Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Quarterly, and many other journals, as well as chapters in books and op-ed articles in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and The Washington Post (more than 400 articles from 1981 to 1993). His books include Security in Europe, Indiana University Press, 1972; Presidential Control of Foreign Policy: Management or Mishap, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1982; The European Security and Defense Policy: NATO's Companion or Competitor?, RAND, 2002; Building a Successful Palestinian State: Security (with Seth Jones), RAND, 2006; and Building Security in the Persian Gulf, RAND, 2010. His oral history, Education Never Ends, was published by the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training in 2011. In 2021 he published academic article The Strategic Importance of the Atlantic Alliance in The Challenge to NATO: Global Security and the Atlantic Alliance. He has given thousands of speeches and radio and television appearances in more than 20 countries. He has taught at the London School of Economics, George Washington University, Georgetown University, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and Washington College, where he was Louis L. Goldstein Chair in Public Policy in 1989. He has been decorated by eight foreign countries and has twice been decorated with the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, the Pentagon's highest civilian decoration.
