Cooperation or Competition: Planning for the Next National Security Strategy
Join us for an online webinar to discuss how the Biden-Harris administration can define the strategic and security priorities for the United States, including where to cooperate and where to compete.
The past few years have seen unprecedented challenges for the United States and its partners. From a once in a generation global pandemic that resulted in the loss of lives, livelihoods, and global supply chain stability, to a continued and accelerated backsliding of democracy. State actors who have malign interests towards the United States, such as China, Iran, and Russia, are at the heart of any number of global issues as they become increasingly belligerent. In particular, the focus is on China and Russia, which are furthering their authoritarian agendas by growing their military, economic, and digital prowess.
The last four years have also seen dramatic vacillations in how the United States responds to these evolving strategic competitors. That vacillation has reached an inflection point with the advent of the National Security Strategy Process. Under the Goldwater-Nichols Defense Department Reorganization Act of 1986, the President must submit an annual report on the national security strategy of the United States to Congress. The Biden-Harris administration announced the kickoff of that process in early February. Now, the hard part: defining strategic and security priorities for the United States, including where to cooperate and where to compete.
CSIS is pleased to convene a bipartisan panel of experts, who have influenced previous national security strategies under the most recent Republican and Democratic presidents, to discuss how current strategic priorities and security challenges can be reconciled in President Biden's National Security Strategy.
This event is made possible through CSIS general support.
