Geostrategic competition and US, Chinese, and Russian overseas basing
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Great power competition has reemerged as a central dynamic in international politics. American, Chinese, and Russian interests in overseas military bases are an important element of this competition and therefore warrant close attention as indicators of strategic capabilities and intentions. In particular, the efforts of great powers to establish overseas bases reveal the geographic parameters of their intent to project power and influence in specific parts of the world. What are the challenges and risks Chinese and Russian bases pose to the United States’ regional strategy and force posture? How do the military postures of great powers interact and with what consequences for regional and global security?
On February 10, the Center for East Asia Policy Studies and the Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology at the Brookings Institution hosted a webinar drawing on the findings from a project co-led by Andrew Yeo and Isaac Kardon on great power competition and overseas basing.
Viewers submitted questions via email to events@brookings.edu or via Twitter at #OverseasBasing.
Agenda
Keynote remarks
Mara E. Karlin
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities - U.S. Department of Defense
Michael E. O’Hanlon
Director of Research - Foreign Policy
Director - Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology
Co-Director - Africa Security Initiative
Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology
Philip H. Knight Chair in Defense and Strategy
Panel discussion
Emily J. Holland
Assistant Professor, Russian Maritime Studies Institute - U.S. Naval War College
Isaac B. Kardon
Senior Fellow for China Studies, Asia Program - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Andrew Yeo
Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies
SK-Korea Foundation Chair in Korea Studies
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