The American Statecraft Program develops and advances ideas for a more disciplined U.S. foreign policy aligned with American values and cognizant of the limits of American power in a more competitive world.
Afreen Akhter
Visiting Scholar, American Statecraft Program
Christopher S. Chivvis
Senior Fellow and Director, American Statecraft Program
Suzanne DiMaggio
Senior Fellow, American Statecraft Program
Peter Harrell
Nonresident Scholar, American Statecraft Program
Aaron David Miller
Senior Fellow, American Statecraft Program
Brett Rosenberg
Nonresident Scholar, American Statecraft Program
Christopher Shell
Fellow, American Statecraft Program
Katie Tobin
Nonresident Scholar, American Statecraft Program
Stephen Wertheim
Senior Fellow, American Statecraft Program
Innovative foreign policy recommendations grounded in reality
Innovative foreign policy recommendations grounded in reality
How large foreign policy shifts happen despite pressures to maintain the status quo.
How large foreign policy shifts happen despite pressures to maintain the status quo.
Collectively, a group of emerging powers in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East are growing in their geopolitical weight and diplomatic ambition. How closely do they align with the United States when it comes to Russia and China? What drives their decisions on the world stage? How can the United States integrate them into its foreign policy strategy?
Collectively, a group of emerging powers in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East are growing in their geopolitical weight and diplomatic ambition. How closely do they align with the United States when it comes to Russia and China? What drives their decisions on the world stage? How can the United States integrate them into its foreign policy strategy?
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought bilateral relations with the U.S. to their lowest point since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Yet Russia holds sway over many U.S. foreign policy priorities. How can the U.S. support European security without sacrificing its other interests?
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought bilateral relations with the U.S. to their lowest point since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Yet Russia holds sway over many U.S. foreign policy priorities. How can the U.S. support European security without sacrificing its other interests?
Challenging assumptions about America’s global priorities to serve the needs of the future.
It is important that NATO has survived for so many decades, but staying alive can’t be the standard for judging success. Real success comes from serving the concrete interests of the members of the alliance.
Never in the years since the Cold War has the United States looked less like a leader of the world and more like the head of a faction — reduced to defending its preferred side against increasingly aligned adversaries
Advocating for Kyiv’s membership doesn’t make sense without addressing Article V guarantee credibility.
Challenging assumptions about America’s global priorities to serve the needs of the future.
It is important that NATO has survived for so many decades, but staying alive can’t be the standard for judging success. Real success comes from serving the concrete interests of the members of the alliance.
Never in the years since the Cold War has the United States looked less like a leader of the world and more like the head of a faction — reduced to defending its preferred side against increasingly aligned adversaries
Advocating for Kyiv’s membership doesn’t make sense without addressing Article V guarantee credibility.
Ensuring that American foreign policy serves the needs of its citizens
Under her leadership, the administration tackled migration’s root causes in northern Central America.
Washington’s handling of the Israel-Palestine conflict appears to be hurting the president’s credibility among African Americans.
Over the past five years, Congress has achieved a great deal for U.S. national security in its debate of and legislation on China, but there is a risk of overshooting a well-reasoned policy response and generating costly escalation.
Ensuring that American foreign policy serves the needs of its citizens
Under her leadership, the administration tackled migration’s root causes in northern Central America.
Washington’s handling of the Israel-Palestine conflict appears to be hurting the president’s credibility among African Americans.
Over the past five years, Congress has achieved a great deal for U.S. national security in its debate of and legislation on China, but there is a risk of overshooting a well-reasoned policy response and generating costly escalation.
Aligning U.S. foreign policy with changing domestic and global economic realities
The strongest argument for rebooting U.S. trade policy ultimately may not be geopolitics, nor even the economic argument that trade deals will help an already-strong U.S economy. Instead, the best argument is that trade is a key element of solving global challenges that affect us all, like the green energy transition and the risks of AI and the digital economy.
China’s emergence as the United States’ leading rival has upended long-standing tenets of international economic policy.
Join the Carnegie Endowment’s American Statecraft Program for a conversation with Deputy National Security Advisor Mike Pyle. The discussion will address the Biden-Harris administration’s work on a modern American industrial and innovation strategy and diplomatic efforts to build broad international support. The conversation will be moderated by Carnegie nonresident scholar Peter Harrell.
Aligning U.S. foreign policy with changing domestic and global economic realities
The strongest argument for rebooting U.S. trade policy ultimately may not be geopolitics, nor even the economic argument that trade deals will help an already-strong U.S economy. Instead, the best argument is that trade is a key element of solving global challenges that affect us all, like the green energy transition and the risks of AI and the digital economy.
China’s emergence as the United States’ leading rival has upended long-standing tenets of international economic policy.
Join the Carnegie Endowment’s American Statecraft Program for a conversation with Deputy National Security Advisor Mike Pyle. The discussion will address the Biden-Harris administration’s work on a modern American industrial and innovation strategy and diplomatic efforts to build broad international support. The conversation will be moderated by Carnegie nonresident scholar Peter Harrell.
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Tensions between the United States and China have made many strategists pessimistic about the future of their relationship. With the two powers competing in nearly every domain, there is a real risk of conflict over the next decade. If there is to be any possibility of stability in their relationship, we need a positive vision for how to get there. In the Carnegie Endowment’s new edited volume, ten experts present their ideas about positive and realistic scenarios for the U.S.-China relationship over the next decade.