U.S. Democracy
What does America’s foreign and military policy have to do with democracy?
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.
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Agenda
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May 5
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Panel 1: The Biden administration’s national security agenda
Panelist
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 @MichaelEOHanlon
Caitlin Talmadge Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology @ProfTalmadge -
Panel 2: Future national security challenges
Panelist
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 @MichaelEOHanlon
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" @harlankullman
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) @ltfenwick
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