About this Event
Join the Vermont Council on World Affairs as we host Rebecca Lissner to discuss her recent book, “An Open World," which makes the case for a new American grand strategy of openness to meet the greatest geopolitical challenges of the coming decade. “An Open World” envisions a more open approach that can help protect American security and prosperity while contributing to greater global interdependence.
About the Book
This ambitious and incisive book presents a new vision for American foreign policy and international order at a time of historic upheaval. The United States global leadership crisis is not a passing shock created by the Trump presidency or COVID-19, but the product of forces that will endure for decades. Amidst political polarization, technological transformation, and major global power shifts, Lissner and Rapp-Hooper convincingly argue only a grand strategy of openness can protect American security and prosperity despite diminished national strength.
Disciplined and forward-looking, an openness strategy would counter authoritarian competitors by preventing the emergence of closed spheres of influence, maintaining access to the global commons, supporting democracies, and preserving economic interdependence. The authors provide a roadmap for the next president, who must rebuild strength at home while preparing for novel forms of international competition. Lucid, trenchant, and practical, “An Open World” is an essential guide to the future of geopolitics.
Rebecca Lissner
Author
Rebecca Lissner is an assistant professor in the Strategic and Operational Research Department at the U.S. Naval War College. Previously, she was a research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House; a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; and a Brady-Johnson Fellow at Yale University’s International Security Studies. She has served as a special advisor to the Deputy Secretary of Energy. Dr. Lissner’s research has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, International Peacekeeping, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Survival, the Texas National Security Review and The Washington Quarterly, among other publications.
Rick Gordan
Moderator
Rick Gordon was Founding Director of Compass School, an innovative middle and high school committed to democratic education. He was Co-Director of The Critical Skills-Education by Design Program at Antioch New England Graduate School, where he was on the Education Department faculty, and has worked extensively with schools and higher education on Service Learning.
Rick has a PhD. in Social and Multicultural Foundations of Education from the University of Colorado-Boulder, has been a Humanities teacher and run several small businesses.
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