Cooper is a member of the roundtables at the Washington-based think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies[needs update] which is currently led by John Hamre.
[15] In 2016, John Wiley & Sons announced a partnership with Cooper to create a program for candidates taking the Financial Risk Manager exam.
The program is built on the existing Wiley Efficient Learning platform and Cooper's Financial Risk Manager product.
In October 2017, he published an essay titled "A Miscommunication and a Missing Peugeot" about the experience and outlined a way forward between the United States and Iran.
[20] In January 2019, the app Pocket added Cooper’s essay “Why Poverty is Like a Disease”, based in part on Rockwood, to its must-read section reserved for the “most-saved, read, and shared stories on Pocket.” [21] In 2022, Bedford, Freeman & Worth included the essay in the American high school textbook 'Ideas in Argument'.