CSF 2024 | Panel 2: Maritime Statecraft - Strategic Challenges before America
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Panel 2: Maritime Statecraft - Strategic Challenges before America
Moderator: Professor Kathleen Walsh, U.S. Naval War College
Dr. Aaron L. Friedberg, Princeton University (virtual)
Dr. Sarah K. Kirchberger, Kiel University
Dr. Michael E. O’Hanlon, Brookings Institution
Professor Kathleen (Kate) Walsh is Associate Professor of National Security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College (NWC) where she has taught policy analysis in the National Security Affairs Department since 2006. Walsh is Director of NWC’s Asia Pacific Studies Group (APSG), and the founder of an Oceanography & Maritime Security Group (OMSG) expert listserv. Professor Walsh was a founding member of NWC's Faculty Advisory Council (FAC), serving 2021-4, and directs the NSA Department's annual student trip to Washington, DC. Her research focuses on China and the Asia-Pacific region, particularly issues of security, technology, innovation and ocean or "blue" economy issues. She is the author of China's Blue Economy: Evolution and Geostrategic Implications (Taylor & Francis, 2024), among numerous other publications. She has an M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University's School of Public & International Affairs, a B.A. in International Affairs from George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs and is a recipient of the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award.
Dr. Aaron L. Friedberg is Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and co-director of Princeton’s Center for International Security Studies. He is also a counselor to the National Bureau of Asian Research. In December 2023 he was appointed to a second two-year term on the Congressional US-China Economic and Security Review Commission. From 2003 to 2005 he served as a Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs in the office of the Vice President and he was subsequently appointed to the Defense Policy Board.
In 2001-2002 Friedberg was selected as the first occupant of the Henry A. Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress. He has been a research fellow at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, the Norwegian Nobel Institute, the Smithsonian Institution's Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and Harvard University's Center for International Affairs. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. His most recent book is Getting China Wrong (2022). Dr. Friedberg received his A.B., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University.
Dr. Sarah K. Kirchberger is the Academic Director of the Institute for Security Policy Kiel (ISPK), a think tank affiliated with the University of Kiel, and also leads its Asia-Pacific Strategy & Security department. She concurrently serves as Vice President of the German Maritime Institute (DMI) and is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. She occasionally lectures at the German Armed Forces Command and Staff College and the NATO Defense College, has provided briefings to the leaderships of NATO HQ and NATO MARCOM, and has been invited to present at Singapore’s MINDEF, at the US National Defense University, U.S. Army War College, U.S. Naval War College, ROC National Defense University, and at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, UC Berkeley, and Yale among others. In April 2023, she has testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) on China’s undersea warfare.
Her current research focuses on China’s undersea warfare technologies; PLAN modernization; China’s defense-industrial development, the military-technological co-operation between China, Russia, and Ukraine; EDTs in the maritime sphere; and on the strategic importance of the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea. Kirchberger holds a M.A. and a PhD in Sinology from the University of Hamburg.
Dr. Michael E. O’Hanlon is a senior fellow and holder of the Phil Knight Chair in Defense and Strategy at the Brookings Institution, in Washington, DC. His last book is Military History for the Modern Strategist. He has also have written, in recent years, The Art of War in an Age of Peace, and The Senkaku Paradox: Risking Great Power War over Small Stakes. In 2022, he published a long article at brookings.edu modeling a Chinese blockade of Taiwan followed by a U.S.-led effort to break the blockade; the article is called "Can China Take Taiwan? Why No One Really Knows." He also teaches at Columbia and Georgetown and sits on the Defense Policy Board.
Good content as always.