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Chris Chivvis is a senior fellow and director of the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has more than two decades of experience working on U.S. foreign policy and national security challenges. He most recently served as the U.S. national intelligence officer for Europe.
At Carnegie, Chivvis leads policy-focused research aimed at developing realistic U.S. strategy for an era of great power competition and building a foreign policy that serves the needs of the American people.
Chivvis’ experience with U.S. foreign policy spans government, academia, and the think tank world. Before joining the National Intelligence Council, he was the deputy head of the RAND Corporation’s international security program and worked in the Defense Department. He also has held positions at multiple universities and think tanks in the United States and Europe.
Chivvis is also the author of three scholarly books and several monographs and articles. His commentary has appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the National Interest, National Public Radio, and several other outlets.
Chris holds a PhD from Johns Hopkins, where he teaches courses on international history and U.S. foreign policy.
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Traditional powers are worried about a second Trump administration, but much of the world has had the opposite reaction.
Allowing Ukraine to use U.S. Atacms missiles for deep strikes may be worth the risk if it hastens negotiations.
A debate on whether Israel should seize on the current moment to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Sophia Besch sits down with Chris Chivvis and Stephen Wertheim to discuss why meaningful change in U.S. foreign policy is so difficult to achieve—and what it would take for the next American president to make such a change happen.
U.S.-China relations have deteriorated to the point that war is a possible outcome. What strategic options exist for the next U.S. president on China? And what pathways exist towards more positive bilateral relations by 2035?
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- Chris Van Hollen,
- Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar,
- Evan Medeiros,
- John Culver,
- Audrye Wong,
- George Perkovich,
- Christopher S. Chivvis,
- Stephen Wertheim
It has become difficult to imagine how Washington and Beijing might turn their relationship, which is so crucial to the future of world order, toward calmer waters. If there is to be any hope of doing so, however, policy experts need some realistic vision of what those calmer waters might look like.
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- Christopher S. Chivvis,
- Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar,
- Evan Medeiros,
- Stephen Walt,
- John Culver,
- Rosemary Foot,
- C. Fred Bergsten,
- Edoardo Campanella,
- Meg Rithmire,
- M. Taylor Fravel,
- Eric Heginbotham,
- George Perkovich,
- Audrye Wong,
- Stephen Wertheim
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Growing U.S.-China tensions have generated a pessimistic vision for the future of the relationship. How might the United States and China manage their competitive relationship without resorting to war?
In this video, Christopher S. Chivvis introduces the volume "U.S.-China Relations for the 2030s: Toward a Realistic Scenario for Coexistence" and argues that a realistic scenario for Washington and Beijing’s peaceful coexistence does exist.
Since World War II, many U.S. leaders have attempted to change the country’s foreign policy, and their efforts have often fallen short. Inertia is a powerful force.
Each one of these states threatens U.S. interests. Yet they are far from a coherent bloc and largely pose threats independent of one another.
Whoever enters the White House in January needs to align U.S. foreign policy broadly with American values, but also focus more clearly on U.S. interests and not shy away from difficult conversations with friends.