Webinar Event |Thursday, October 8
As the 2020 election approaches, the Democracy Initiative's Statecraft Lab will host a event to discuss the state of foreign policy, democracy and more.
Democracy Initiative's Statecraft Lab Event Examines America’s Future in Global Politics
The Pandemic and Great Power Competition
How has the COVID-19 crisis affected the emerging rivalry between the United States and China? Has the pandemic sharpened great power competition, or highlighted the need for mutual cooperation? Miller Center experts Todd Sechser and John Owen join former assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell, Nanjing University China expert Zhu Feng, and and Cornell University China scholar Jessica Chen Weiss to consider how the international order has been reshuffled by the pandemic, and who could emerge in a stronger position once the crisis subsides.
The Pandemic and Great Power Competition
How has the COVID-19 crisis affected the emerging rivalry between the United States and China? Has the pandemic sharpened great power competition, or highlighted the need for mutual cooperation? Miller Center experts Todd Sechser and John Owen join former assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell, Nanjing University China expert Zhu Feng, and and Cornell University China scholar Jessica Chen Weiss to consider how the international order has been reshuffled by the pandemic, and who could emerge in a stronger position once the crisis subsides.
Democracy & Strategy: American Statecraft in the 21st Century
The World Is Experiencing a New Form of Autocracy
Today’s authoritarians use legal measures to subvert constitutional constraints on their power. By Lab Faculty Anne Meng and Mila Versteeg, with Tim Horley.
Red and Blue America Agree That Now Is the Time to Violate the Constitution
People of both parties seem rather okay with undermining core civil liberties in order to fight the pandemic. By Lab Faculty member Mila Versteeg in partnership with Adam Chilton, Kevin Cope and Charles Crabtree.
Brendan Green - The Revolution that Failed: Nuclear Competition, Arms Control and the Cold War
Misunderstanding the Bomb
How we've learned the wrong lessons about nuclear deterrence and arms control. Brendan Green, Todd Sechser
Brendan Green: Misunderstanding the Bomb
In the News
The Pandemic and Great Power Competition
How has the COVID-19 crisis affected the emerging rivalry between the United States and China? Has the pandemic sharpened great power competition, or highlighted the need for mutual cooperation?
Red and Blue America Agree That Now Is the Time to Violate the Constitution
The Atlantic
People of both parties seem rather okay with undermining core civil liberties in order to fight the pandemic.
Misunderstanding the Bomb
How we've learned the wrong lessons about nuclear deterrence and arms control. Brendan Green, Todd Sechser
The World Is Experiencing a New Form of Autocracy
The Atlantic
Today’s authoritarians use legal measures to subvert constitutional constraints on their power. By Lab Faculty Anne Meng and Mila Versteeg, with Tim Horley.
The U.S. and Iran: 'It's a very important moment'
Lab Director Todd Sechser moderates as former ambassadors Eric Edelman and Steve Mull discuss the latest chapter in a long and fraught relationship
Can the U.S. protect its nuclear weapons in Turkey?
Washington Post
U.S. forces reportedly came under artillery fire from Turkish troops heading into northern Syria last week — another sign of the sudden plunge in U.S. relations with Turkey.
Analysis of the U.S.-North Korean summit
Newsradio WINA
Todd Sechser, an associate professor in the University of Virginia’s Department of Politics and the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy … he’s also a senior fellow at the Miller Center, specializing in international security and co-author of the 2017 book “Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy. He joins Les Sinclair to analyze the summit.