The Geopolitics of a New Decade

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Foreign policy experts Rebecca Lissner and Mira Rapp-Hooper shared their vision for a new American grand strategy of openness beyond the 2020 election.

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Speakers

Rebecca Lissner
Mira Rapp-Hooper
Ivo H. Daalder

Event Date

October 1, 2020

About This Event

The United States’ global leadership crisis is not just a blip invoked by an "America First" approach to foreign policy or the COVID-19 pandemic, but rather the product of forces that could endure for decades. In a new world order of historical upheaval, how should America address its weakening global influence, navigate the rise of autocratic adversaries, and preserve economic interdependence? Confronting the greatest geopolitical challenges of our time, foreign policy experts Rebecca Lissner and Mira Rapp-Hooper join the Council to share their vision for a new American grand strategy of openness beyond the 2020 election.

Copies of Rebecca Lissner and Mira Rapp-Hooper’s 2020 book An Open World: How America Can Win the Contest for Twenty-First Century Order are available for sale from our local Chicago book partner The Book Cellar.

About the Speakers

Rebecca Lissner

Assistant Professor, US Naval War College

Rebecca Lissner is an assistant professor in the strategic and operational research department at the US Naval War College.

Mira Rapp-Hooper

Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

Mira Rapp-Hooper is a senior fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center, and the author of the 2020 release Shields of the Republic: The Triumph and Peril of America’s Alliances. Rapp-Hooper holds a BA in history from Stanford University, as well as an MA, MPhil, and PhD in political science from Columbia University.

Ivo H. Daalder

CEO, Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Ivo H. Daalder served as the US ambassador to NATO from 2009 to 2013. He joined the Council as president in 2013 and took on the new role of CEO in 2023. Previously, he was a senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution and served as director for European affairs on President Bill Clinton’s National Security Council. He is the author or editor of 10 books.