The 2022 Knight Forum on Geopolitics
Past Event
On September 19, the Brookings Institution’s Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology held its first annual Knight Forum on Geopolitics. Named after Trustee Philip H. Knight, the forum brought together the expertise of Brookings scholars from across the Foreign Policy program and beyond to analyze the most significant global issues of the day.
This year’s forum focused on the Russia-Ukraine war, featuring several panels on its far-reaching implications for the region and the world writ large and how it has revealed major geopolitical fault lines in this new era of great power competition.
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Agenda
Opening remarks
Panel 1: The Russia-Ukraine war
This panel will focus on the trajectory of the war more than six months since Russia launched its unjustified and barbaric full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24 of this year. It will examine the conflict’s evolving battlefield dynamics, the economic and diplomatic elements of the struggle in our globalized world, and how the outcomes we have seen so far have challenged basic assumptions about modern warfare.
Michael E. O’Hanlon
Director of Research - Foreign Policy
Director - Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology
Co-Director - Africa Security Initiative
Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology
The Sydney Stein, Jr. Chair
Philip H. Knight Chair in Defense and Strategy
Samantha Gross
Director - Energy Security and Climate Initiative
Fellow - Foreign Policy, Energy Security and Climate Initiative
Douglas A. Rediker
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Global Economy and Development, Center on the United States and Europe
Caitlin Talmadge
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology
Coffee Break
Panel 2: Implications for Europe’s security landscape
This panel will consider the short- and long-term implications for European peace and security, including its effects on tensions between Russia, NATO, and other institutions of European governance, its impact on NATO membership and force posture, and the transatlantic ramifications of the crisis.
Aslı Aydıntaşbaş
Visiting Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, The Turkey Project
Constanze Stelzenmüller
Director - Center on the United States and Europe
Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe
Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and trans-Atlantic Relations
Panel 3: Implications for our global security architecture
This panel will expand the lens of analysis even further, to include Asia, China and Taiwan, South Asia, the Middle East, and the Global South. The human security crisis — including the consequences of the invasion on energy and food security — will also be examined.
Robert Kagan
Stephen & Barbara Friedman Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Project on International Order and Strategy
Patricia M. Kim
David M. Rubenstein Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center
Tanvi Madan
Director - The India Project
Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Project on International Order and Strategy
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