US grand strategy under President Biden and beyond
Past Event
The United States faces a comprehensive suite of challenges, among them China’s rise, Russia’s revanchist foreign policy, as well as other perennial threats, including North Korea’s nuclear program, the ongoing risk of terrorism, as well as the instability that climate change, pandemics, and other natural phenomena increasingly threaten. To frame its approach to these and other challenges, the Biden administration has developed, or is developing, a National Security Strategy, National Defense Strategy, and Nuclear Posture Review, to serve as a strategic guidepost for the nation’s collective defense and foreign policy.
On May 5, Brookings hosted an event to discuss these documents, the conclusions they have arrived at, or could reach, and their implications for U.S. foreign policy. The second half of the event also considered future national security challenges beyond these, including the risk of “massive attacks of disruption,” from nature and technology, to threaten society.
Viewers can submitted questions by emailing them to events@brookings.edu, or by Twitter #NationalSecurity.
Agenda
Panel 1: The Biden administration’s national security agenda
Michael E. O’Hanlon
Director of Research - Foreign Policy
Co-Director - Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Africa Security Initiative
Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology
The Sydney Stein, Jr. Chair
Robert Einhorn
Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Initiative
Caitlin Talmadge
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology
Panel 2: Future national security challenges
Michael E. O’Hanlon
Director of Research - Foreign Policy
Co-Director - Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Africa Security Initiative
Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology
The Sydney Stein, Jr. Chair
Harlan K. Ullman
Chairman - The Killowen Group
Senior Advisor - The Atlantic Council
Author - "The Fifth Horseman and the New MAD: How Massive Attacks of Disruption Became the Looming Existential Danger to a Divided Nation and the World at Large"
Leslie T. Fenwick
Dean Emerita and Professor - Howard University
MCLC Senior Fellow - U.S. Military Academy at West Point (USMA)
Author - Jim Crow’s Pink Slip (Harvard Education Press, 2022)
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