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Press

  • Mind the Gap: Priorities for Transatlantic China Policy
    Mind the Gap: Priorities for Transatlantic China Policy

    The Aspen Strategy Group, Munich Security Conference, and Mercator Institute for China Studies released "Mind the Gap: Priorities for Transatlantic China Policy" on July 14, 2021.

  • The Case for National Service
    National Service
    The Case for National Service
    National service would offer life-shaping experiences to promote understanding among young Americans of all backgrounds.
    BY Aspen Strategy Group

    Of Interest

    10.15.2020

  • American Diplomats Are Being Persecuted By Their Own President
    American Diplomats Are Being Persecuted By Their Own President

    ASG Executive Director Nicholas Burns wrote an op-ed in the New York Times on the state of the U.S. Foreign Service and the impact of President Trump's approach to diplomacy.

  • If China crushes Hong Kong, is Taiwan Next?
    If China crushes Hong Kong, is Taiwan Next?

    Op-Ed written by ASG member Dov Zakheim on August 12, 2019 published in The Hill reflecting on the conversations at our recent Summer Workshop in Aspen, CO

  • Friction with China isn't going away. The U.S. needs a better strategy
    Friction with China isn't going away. The U.S. needs a better strategy

    Following the 2019 Summer Workshop meeting, Aspen Strategy Group member David Ignatius published this piece in the Washington Post on the contentious relationship between the U.S. and China, and how our group tackled these complicated policy questions.

  • The Partnership for Peace: A Quiet NATO Success Story
    The Partnership for Peace: A Quiet NATO Success Story

    Following the ASG's second Transatlantic Strategic Dialogue in April 2019, Ambassador Azita Raji published an article on NATO in War on the Rocks.

  • The New Revolution in Military Affairs
    The New Revolution in Military Affairs

    Following his article in the ASG's latest policy book "Technology and National Security: Maintaining America's Edge", member Chris Brose published an article in Foreign Affairs about the impact of changing technology on the future of warfare.

  • Europe Holds Summit With China, More Skeptically This Time
    Europe Holds Summit With China, More Skeptically This Time

    Following the Aspen Strategy Group's Transatlantic Strategic Dialogue II in April 2019, Steven Erlanger, chief diplomatic correspondent in Europe for The New York Times, published this piece.

  • Technology and the Future of Work
    Technology and the Future of Work

    Diana Farrell's chapter from "Technology and National Security: Maintaining America's Edge" was republished as a JPMorgan Chase Institute report.

  • ASG Book Cited in The Economist
    ASG Book Cited in The Economist

    ASG's latest book "Technology and National Security: Maintaining America's Edge" was cited in The Economist's special report on NATO at 70.

    Aspen Policy Books

    • Towards a New Rules-Based Order
      World Affairs
      Towards a New Rules-Based Order
      The Aspen Strategy Group examines different dimensions of today's complex international environment including Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the global security order, adaptive economic institutions, and NATO's renewed importance on the world stage.

      BY Aspen Strategy Group

      12.16.2022

    • World Affairs
      On the Rise: Perspectives on Foreign Policy
      In this publication, the Aspen Strategy Group's Rising Leaders Class of 2021 explores the challenges facing U.S. foreign policy.
      BY ASG Rising Leaders & 1 more

      Publication

      03.25.2022

    • World Affairs
      Democracy’s Future: Abroad and at Home
      This new ASG publication, produced in partnership with Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, explores the many challenges facing democracy both at home and around the globe.
      BY Aspen Strategy Group

      Publication

      12.07.2021

    • World Affairs
      Domestic and International (Dis)Order: A Strategic Response
      In its 2020 policy book, the Aspen Strategy Group explores race, democracy, and political divisions on the American home front; the future of U.S.-China relations; the global economy; and U.S. foreign policy priorities for 2021.
      BY Aspen Strategy Group

      Publication

      10.28.2020

    • World Affairs
      The Struggle for Power: U.S.-China Relations in the 21st Century
      This policy book brings together preeminent experts to explore how to compete effectively with the military and technological rise of China and how to engage U.S. allies amidst this great-power rivalry.
      BY Aspen Strategy Group

      Publication

      01.24.2020

    • National Security
      Technology and National Security: Maintaining America’s Edge
      This report brings together preeminent experts to examine the current era of transformative technological change, its disruptive effects on America’s instruments of power, and the path ahead as the U.S. seeks to maintain its primacy.
      BY Aspen Strategy Group

      Publication

      02.07.2019

    • National Security
      The World Turned Upside Down
      In its 2017 publication, the Aspen Strategy Group examined the future of the liberal world order.
      BY Aspen Strategy Group

      Publication

      11.16.2017

    • National Security
      America's National Security Architecture: Rebuilding the Foundation
      The book consists of set of essays on a single subject—how should the new Trump Administration construct its national security decision-making structures in Washington.
      BY Aspen Strategy Group

      Publication

      11.29.2016

    • National Security
      Blind Spot: America's Response to Radicalism in the Middle East
      These essays capture a range of opinions on the roots, drivers, and sustainability of radical groups in the Middle East.
      BY Aspen Strategy Group

      Publication

      12.15.2015

    • Europe and Russia
      The Crisis with Russia
      This report explores the history of the U.S.-Russia relationship, current developments in the Sino-Russian relationship, the NATO and European responses to Russian aggression in Eastern Europe, energy considerations, areas of potential U.S.-Russia cooperation, and finally, the broader question of U.S. national security and interests in the European region.
      BY Aspen Strategy Group

      Publication

      11.19.2014

    • Defense Policy
      The Future of American Defense
      A discussion of the hard choices and difficult trade-offs we must make in the years ahead to maintain the quality and effectiveness of the U.S. military.
      BY Editors: Nicholas Burns and Jonathon Price

      Publication

      02.04.2014

    • Africa and the Middle East
      The Arab Revolutions and American Policy
      This collection evaluates the various drivers and outcomes of the Arab revolutions, all of which continue to bear an ever-greater influence on the formulation of American strategy in the Middle East.
      BY Nicholas Burns and Jonathon Price

      Publication

      03.29.2013

    • National Security
      Securing Cyberspace: A New Domain for National Security
      The papers examine the complexities of the emerging cyber threat, as well as the possibilities - and inherent challenges - of crafting effective domestic and international cyber policy.
      BY Nicholas Burns and Jonathon Price

      Publication

      02.21.2012

    • National Security
      American Interests in South Asia: Building a Grand Strategy in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India
      The book contains a collection of commissioned papers that provide an intensive exploration of the interconnected national security challenges posed by the events in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India.
      BY Nicholas Burns and Jonathon Price

      Publication

      03.11.2011

    • World Affairs
      The Global Economic Crisis and Potential Implications for Foreign Policy and National Security
      Explores the strategic consequences of the global economic crisis, and considered how dramatically changing economic and financial foundations might impact the foreign policy agenda of both the United States and other countries on the international scene.
      BY Aspen Strategy Group

      Publication

      12.11.2009

    • World Affairs
      The Instruments & Institutions of American Purpose
      These chapters represent a thorough accounting of the capabilities and limitations of the key organizations—diplomatic, military, financial, and intelligence—that American policymakers rely upon to address global challenges.
      BY Kurt Campbell and Jonathon Price

      Publication

      04.01.2009

    • Energy
      The Global Politics of Energy
      A high-level examination of policy strategies for addressing the challenges posed by the soaring demand for oil, the rise of petro-powers, and the implications of climate change.
      BY Institute Contributor, & 1 more

      Publication

      04.01.2008

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