The American Statecraft Program develops and advances ideas for a more disciplined U.S. foreign policy aligned with American values and cognizant of the limits of American power in a more competitive world.
The American Statecraft Program’s Pivotal States Series examines U.S. foreign policy through the lens of key bilateral relationships, mapping the way to a foreign policy more responsive to the realities of the mid-twenty-first century.
Christopher S. Chivvis
Senior Fellow and Director, American Statecraft Program
Suzanne DiMaggio
Senior Fellow, American Statecraft Program
Peter Harrell
Nonresident Scholar, American Statecraft Program
Aaron David Miller
Senior Fellow, American Statecraft Program
Brett Rosenberg
Nonresident Scholar, American Statecraft Program
Christopher Shell
Fellow, American Statecraft Program
Katie Tobin
Nonresident Scholar, American Statecraft Program
Stephen Wertheim
Senior Fellow, American Statecraft Program
Carnegie Connects is our premier live podcast hosted by Aaron David Miller. Every other week, he tackles the most pressing foreign policy issues of the day in conversations with journalists, policymakers, historians, and experts.
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?
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.
A conversation about the Israeli ground invasion of southern Lebanon and the potential ramifications.
On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas launched a brutal attack on Israel and set in motion a new cycle of violence that has rocked the Middle East. With the risk of yet more escalation, where did things go so wrong?
Join Aaron David Miller as he sits down with Karim Sadjadpour, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Middle East Program, and Suzanne Maloney, vice president and director of the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, to discuss how Iran perceives the current landscape and may act as the crisis unfolds.
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.
A conversation on the impact that tensions in the Middle East might have on economic markets.
A conversation about what might happen next, following Iran launching about 200 missiles at Israel, risking a wider war in the region.
it should be painfully obvious that, despite its tireless efforts, Washington has been unable to negotiate a cease-fire to de-escalate the Israel-Hamas war, let alone end it.
A conversation on the possibility of an Israeli ground offensive in Lebanon.