Around the Halls: Assessing the 2022 National Security Strategy

Brookings Institute

Shadi HamidDaniel S. HamiltonRyan HassBruce JonesPatricia M. KimSuzanne MaloneyAmy J. NelsonMichael E. O’HanlonNatan SachsBruce RiedelMelanie W. SissonMireya SolísConstanze Stelzenmüller, and Andrew Yeo Friday, October 14, 2022

ORDER FROM CHAOS

On October 12, 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration released the 2022 National Security Strategy (NSS). Brookings experts reflect on the document and what it reveals about the United States’ security trajectory.

SHADI HAMID (@shadihamid)
Senior Fellow, Center for Middle East Policy


In the past, I have been critical of the administration’s tendency to instrumentalize democracy by suggesting that its strength and value hinges on its ability to produce “good” outcomes. As I argue in “The Problem of Democracy“, this way of thinking about the democratic idea can easily lead to incoherence. Policymakers have little choice but to be incoherent, some of the time; the world is complicated. Still, identifying these tensions is worthwhile, in anticipation of when they might cause problems for U.S. foreign policy. In this case, they almost certainly will, because they already have.

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