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.
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
Innovative foreign policy recommendations grounded in reality
Innovative foreign policy recommendations grounded in reality
Challenging assumptions about America’s global priorities to serve the needs of the future.
Challenging assumptions about America’s global priorities to serve the needs of the future.
Ensuring that American foreign policy serves the needs of its citizens
Ensuring that American foreign policy serves the needs of its citizens
Aligning U.S. foreign policy with changing domestic and global economic realities
Aligning U.S. foreign policy with changing domestic and global economic realities
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.
Israel’s military campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon has broken a status quo that could carry potentially momentous consequences for a country and a region already marked by a year of conflict. Critical questions loom. Join Aaron David Miller as he sits down with Kim Ghattas and Ambassador David Satterfield for the next Carnegie Connects.
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?
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.
A conversation about about the U.S. troops and THAAD anti-missile defense system that have touched down in Israel.
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.
Undecided voters from minority groups are paying close attention to foreign policy in 2024.
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.
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?