November 01, 2022

The Biden Administration’s Grand Strategy in Three Documents, with Richard Fontaine

Scott R. Anderson sat down with Richard Fontaine, chief executive officer of the Center for a New American Security, who is himself also a former National Security Council official and senior congressional adviser. They discussed the role these strategy documents play in U.S. foreign policy, what we can learn from them, and what they say about the state of the world and the United States’ role in it.

Listen to the full interview from Lawfare.

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