America’s Great-Power Opportunity: Revitalizing U.S. Foreign Policy for Strategic Competition
Virtual Member-only Briefing Series
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2023 | 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM ET
Following the Cold War, the U.S. enjoyed a period of unrivaled global dominance and influence. However, with China’s rise, a disruptive Russia, and hedging Middle Powers, it is widely agreed that the current liberal international order led by the United States is under strain. Given that the United States’ relative influence is not at the same level as it was during that of the post-Cold War “unipolar moment,” there is a need for a unifying construct in American foreign policy to meet the challenges of strategic competition. What are the implications of the strategic competition between the U.S., China, and Russia to its foreign policy? How does the U.S. utilize its unique position as a great power to shape the emerging international order and combat these strategic rivals? Join us on Wednesday, August 2, 2023 from 6 PM to 7:15 PM ET for a virtual discussion with Ali Wyne, Senior Analyst with Eurasia Group’s Global Macro-Geopolitics and Author of “America’s Great-Power Opportunity: Revitalizing U.S. Foreign Policy for Strategic Competition.”
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SPEAKER:
Ali Wyne
Ali Wyne is a senior analyst with Eurasia Group’s Global Macro-Geopolitics practice. He is a David Rockefeller fellow with the Trilateral Commission, a security fellow with the Truman National Security Project, and a U.S. Army “Mad Scientist.” Ali is a member of Foreign Policy for America’s Board of Directors and a former term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of America’s Great-Power Opportunity: Revitalizing U.S. Foreign Policy to Meet the Challenges of Strategic Competition, which the Spectator named one of its 2022 books of the year.
About America’s Great-Power Opportunity: Revitalizing U.S. Foreign Policy to Meet the Challenges of Strategic Competition
It has become axiomatic to contend that U.S. foreign policy must adapt to an era of renewed “great-power competition.” The United States went on a quarter-century strategic detour after the Cold War, the argument goes, basking in triumphalism and getting bogged down in the Middle East. Now China and Russia are increasingly challenging its influence and undercutting the order it has led since 1945. How should it respond to these two formidable authoritarian powers?
In this timely intervention, Ali Wyne offers the first detailed critique of great-power competition as a foreign policy framework, warning that it could render the United States defensive and reactive. He exhorts Washington to find a middle ground between complacence and consternation, selectively contesting Beijing and Moscow but not allowing their decisions to determine its own course. Analyzing a resurgent China, a disruptive Russia, and a deepening Sino-Russian entente, Wyne explains how the United States can seize the “great-power opportunity” at hand: to manage all three of those phenomena confidently while renewing itself at home and abroad.
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