The future of American economic and financial statecraft

The post-Cold War bipartisan consensus on the U.S. role in the world economy has broken down and policymakers from both parties have increasingly eschewed the goals of global integration and trade liberalization in favor of greater protectionism. At the same time, economic and financial tools – from sanctions and export controls to tariffs and industrial policy – have become ever more central to policymakers’ efforts to advance U.S. security and competitiveness in a more sharply contested international environment. This combination presents major risks and opportunities for the United States, as well as difficult policy trade-offs. How the next administration navigates these trade-offs will have long-term implications for U.S. national security, the global economy, and the American people.
The Miller Center's Stevenson Symposium will consider the future of American economic and financial statecraft, the exercise of U.S. economic and financial power over the past 25 years, and how the new Trump administration might use the levers of economic and financial power to advance U.S. global interests.

Schedule

• 9:30am-9:35am: Opening Remarks/Welcome by Bill Antholis
• 9:35am-10:45am: Keynote Address by Ambassador Michael Froman, moderated by Bill Antholis
• 10:45am-11:00am: Break
• 11:00am-12:15pm: Panel 1 – Challenges to U.S. Economic and Financial Statecraft in Historical Perspective, moderated by Scott Miller
• 12:15pm-1:15pm: Break
• 1:15pm-2:30pm: Panel 2 - Policy Priorities for the New Administration, moderated by Alexander Bick

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