With President Trump’s return to the White House in 2025, U.S. allies and partners face a bevy of questions about future security and economic scenarios arising in Europe and the Indo-Pacific. How should U.S. allies deter further aggression in Europe and contend with contingencies in Asia? What will be the resolution to U.S. efforts to rebalance trade and to negotiate reciprocal tariffs? How should allies and partners in Europe and the Indo-Pacific meet the new challenges arising from the cohesion of autocratic actors including China, Iran, Russia and North Korea?
CSIS and the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS) at the Brussels School of Governance (BSoG) of the VUB have been co-organizing the Transatlantic Dialogue on Indo-Pacific since 2020. Please join us for the Dialogue's 5th meeting at CSIS to explore how America's NATO and Indo-Pacific allies navigate the evolving geopolitical landscape in 2025. Experts, practitioners, and scholars in the CSIS-CSDS Dialogue will discuss key issues in diplomacy, military alignment, and defense technology in an era of U.S.-China competition.
This event is made possible through general support to CSIS.
Victor Cha, President, Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department and Korea Chair, CSIS
Luis Simón, Director, Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS)
Thomas Wright, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Brookings Institute; Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Strategic Planning, National Security Council
Max Bergmann, Director, Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program and Stuart Center, CSIS
Benedetta Berti, Director of Policy Planning, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Gregory Poling, Director and Senior Fellow, Southeast Asia Program and Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, CSIS
Michito Tsuruoka, Professor, Faculty of Policy Studies, Keio University; Deputy Director, Keio Center for Strategy (KCS)
Moderator: Eva Pejsova, Japan Chair, Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS)
