Land Powers, Sea Powers and Falling Skies
Event description
As strategic competition intensifies between the U.S. and authoritarian adversaries, many wonder whether our system of shared and separated powers and our polarized body politic are up to the challenge. Is the sky really falling? Must we mimic our adversaries to compete with them, or can what looks like dysfunction belie enduring strategic advantages? Walter Russell Mead will explore the centuries-long history of competition and conflict between liberal maritime powers and illiberal land powers to see how it might help illuminate the present moment and point toward productive ways ahead.
This event is co-sponsored by the Phoenix Committee on Foreign Relations.
About the speaker
Walter Russell Mead is one of the most respected voices in American foreign policy and grand strategy. He is the Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship at the Hudson Institute, the Global View columnist at the Wall Street Journal and the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College in New York. He has authored numerous books, including the celebrated "Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How it Changed the World". His latest is 2022’s "The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel and the Fate of the Jewish People".