We speak with Zack Cooper, Senior Research Fellow with the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Washington.
Zack previously served as assistant to the deputy national security adviser for combating terrorism at the National Security Council and as a special assistant to the principal deputy under secretary of defense for policy at the Department of Defense.
He currently studies US strategy in Asia, including alliance dynamics and US-China competition. He also teaches at Georgetown University and Princeton University, codirects the Alliance for Securing Democracy, and co-hosts the “Net Assessment” podcast. Dr. Cooper is currently writing a book that explains how to predict the future path of US-China military competition by examining how militaries change during power shifts.
Reference Links
Twitter feed by Zack Cooper https://twitter.com/ZackCooper
Bad Idea: “Great Power Competition” Terminology – https://defense360.csis.org/bad-idea-…
Statement of release: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-…
Link to Strategy – https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content…
