GeoStrategy Initiative Analysis and Events

Kroenig and Ashford discuss convention speeches, America’s foreign engagement, and how the West should respond to Belarus

By Atlantic Council

On August 28, Foreign Policy published a biweekly column featuring Scowcroft Center Deputy Director Matthew Kroenig and the Cato Institute’s Emma Ashford discussing the latest news in international affairs. In this column, they discuss the DNC and RNC speeches, what a potential President Biden’s foreign policy might look like, and what role the US should play in response […]

Manning quoted in VOA on the possibility of transfer of power in the DPRK

By Atlantic Council

Kroenig explains why democracies have an advantage over autocracies

By Atlantic Council

On August 21, IAI News published an essay by Matthew Kroenig, in which he explained the advantages possessed by democracies as they engage in geopolitical competition with autocratic great-power rivals. The essay distills key arguments from Kroenig’s book released earlier this year, The Return of Great Power Rivalry: Democracy versus Autocracy from the Ancient World to the […]

Manning interview on podcast: China in the Middle East

By Atlantic Council

Sparrow discusses General Brent Scowcroft’s legacy on DefAero podcast

By Atlantic Council

Burrows and Manning: What happens when America is no longer the undisputed super power?

By Atlantic Council

Cimmino in Providence: Support religious freedom to counter China

By Atlantic Council

Global Strategy Initiative program assistant Jeffrey Cimmino argues the United States should leverage support for religious freedom as a foreign policy tool in great power competition, especially with China.