Strategic Rethink by Hans Binnendijk
RAND - 2016
This report is the third in RAND's ongoing Strategic Rethink series, in
which RAND experts explore the elements of a national strategy for the
conduct of U.S. foreign and security policy in this administration and
the next. The report evaluates three broad strategies for dealing with
U.S. partners and adversaries in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East in a
time of diminishing defense budgets and an American public preference
for a domestic focus. The three strategies are to be more assertive, to
be more collaborative, or to retrench from international commitments.
All three of these alternative approaches are constrained and a balance
will need to be struck among them — that balance may differ from region
to region. In general, however, the United States may need to follow a
more collaborative approach in which it seeks greater collaboration and
burden sharing from strong partners who have until now not been pulling
their weight. To further reduce risk, the United States should seek to
prevent deeper security ties from developing between China and Russia.
It should work closely with its most vulnerable partners not only to
reassure them, but to coordinate crisis management with them to limit
the risk of unwanted escalation of incidents. And it should sponsor new
trilateral efforts to draw together partners in both Europe and Asia
that face similar security, political, economic, societal, and
environmental problems. Only by working together across regions can many
of these challenges be effectively managed. Trilateralism might serve
as a useful follow-on strategy to the pivot to Asia.
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