Stavridis retired from the Navy in 2013 after thirty-seven years of service and became dean of The Fletcher School in the summer 2013. Penguin Random House published his book "Sailing true North: Ten Admirals and the Voyage of Character" on October 15, 2019. It reached #10 on the Amazon.com best seller list two days later. His book "The Accidental Admiral", describing his time in the Navy, was published in October 2014. His book "The Leader's Bookshelf", published in 2017, describing the top 50 books that inspire better leadership was a #1 best seller in Amazon's "Literary Bibliography and Indexes" category. A second book published in 2017 is called "Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World's Oceans". It opened at #9 on the Washington Post non-fiction bestseller list. His books have been published in six languages.He is an associate fellow of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and a member of the Inter-American Dialogue.