Democracy, Conflict, & Governance
The China-Russia relationship and threats to vital US interests
On September 19, the Brookings Institution’s Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology held its first annual Knight Forum on Geopolitics. Named after Trustee Philip H. Knight, the forum brought together the expertise of Brookings scholars from across the Foreign Policy program and beyond to analyze the most significant global issues of the day.
This year’s forum focused on the Russia-Ukraine war, featuring several panels on its far-reaching implications for the region and the world writ large and how it has revealed major geopolitical fault lines in this new era of great power competition.
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Agenda
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September 19
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Opening remarks
9:00 am
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Panel 1: The Russia-Ukraine war
9:00 am - 10:00 am
This panel will focus on the trajectory of the war more than six months since Russia launched its unjustified and barbaric full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24 of this year. It will examine the conflict’s evolving battlefield dynamics, the economic and diplomatic elements of the struggle in our globalized world, and how the outcomes we have seen so far have challenged basic assumptions about modern warfare.
Moderator
Michael E. O’Hanlon Director of Research - Foreign Policy, Director - Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Co-Director - Africa Security Initiative, Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Philip H. Knight Chair in Defense and Strategy @MichaelEOHanlonPanelist
Douglas A. Rediker Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Global Economy and Development, Center on the United States and Europe @dougrediker
Caitlin Talmadge Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology @ProfTalmadge -
Coffee Break
10:00 am - 10:15 am
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Panel 2: Implications for Europe’s security landscape
10:15 am - 11:15 am
This panel will consider the short- and long-term implications for European peace and security, including its effects on tensions between Russia, NATO, and other institutions of European governance, its impact on NATO membership and force posture, and the transatlantic ramifications of the crisis.
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James Goldgeier Visiting Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe @JimGoldgeier
Constanze Stelzenmüller Director - Center on the United States and Europe, Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and Trans-Atlantic Relations @ConStelz -
Panel 3: Implications for our global security architecture
11:15 am - 12:15 pm
This panel will expand the lens of analysis even further, to include Asia, China and Taiwan, South Asia, the Middle East, and the Global South. The human security crisis — including the consequences of the invasion on energy and food security — will also be examined.
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William A. Galston Ezra K. Zilkha Chair and Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Center for Effective Public ManagementPanelist
Robert Kagan Stephen & Barbara Friedman Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology
Patricia M. Kim David M. Rubenstein Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center @patricia_m_kim
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