Featured book
The Return of Great Power Rivalry is the latest book authored by Dr. Matthew Kroenig, deputy director of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council.
The National Security Strategy of the United States of America declares the return of great power rivalry with Russia and China to be the foremost threat to US security and economic well being. Further, many analysts predict that America’s autocratic rivals will have at least some success in disrupting and, in the longer term, possibly even displacing U.S. global leadership. The Return of Great Power Rivalry argues that this conventional wisdom is wrong. By advancing a “hard-power” argument for democracy, Kroenig demonstrates that despite its many problems, the U.S. is better positioned to maintain a global leadership role than either Russia or China.
Featured in-depth research and reports
Tue, Jul 7, 2020
A global strategy for shaping the post-COVID-19 world
The COVID-19 pandemic is an acute public health and economic crisis that is further destabilizing an already weakened rules-based international system. With cooperation, determination, and resolve, however, the United States and its allies can recover from the crisis and revitalize an adapted rules-based system to bring about decades of future freedom, peace, and prosperity.
Atlantic Council Strategy Paper Series by
Fri, Dec 20, 2019
Leading the free world: How America benefits
Americans have been the unconscious beneficiaries of a world order that would not exist without them. Just as we take for granted electricity and plumbing, so to we take for granted the peace and prosperity of our system.
Report by Paul D. Miller
Thu, Dec 12, 2019
Managed competition: Meeting China’s challenge in a multi-vector world
Understanding and responding to the challenges China presents requires a broad perspective, recognizing the interaction of economic, diplomatic, and security issues.
Report by Franklin D. Kramer
Wed, Oct 30, 2019
Present at the re-creation: A global strategy for revitalizing, adapting, and defending a rules-based international system
We need a new strategy—one that is both ambitious and innovative, geared towards meeting the challenges and opportunities that the new decade brings.
Atlantic Council Strategy Paper Series by Ash Jain, Matthew Kroenig
Thu, Mar 16, 2017
Strategy of “Constrainment”
D-10 think tank experts outline a comprehensive strategy to counter Russia’s challenge to the rules-based democratic order.
D-10 Strategy Forum by
The Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security works to develop sustainable, nonpartisan strategies to address the most important security challenges facing the United States and the world.