foreign policymaking and quantitative text analysis and data visualizations to help put Biden’s 2022 National Security Strategy in its comparative and historical context. As academic political scientists (Skinner and Chin) and an AI engineer (Yoo), we leverage both deep qualitative knowledge on U.S. Although each national security strategy is a product of its time (and administration), we find that managing great-power competition is a perpetual theme in recent reports. The text of national security strategies thus provides a window into the contours and constants of American grand strategy.

3 Though presidents may ignore their own national security strategy, if any words matter, the words in this document do.Īlthough most new administrations have political incentives to emphasize change in their national security strategy vis-à-vis their predecessor (for President Joe Biden, this would amount to an “anything but Trump” political imperative), we actually observe several long-term trends that mark continuity or gradual change in the content and concerns of both Democratic and Republican strategies. It also aims to cajole a sometimes-resistant national security bureaucracy itself. It communicates, explains, and sells an administration’s foreign policy objectives and priorities to Congress, the American public, and various foreign audiences.

strategy documents - including the national defense strategy, quadrennial defense review, and national military strategy - the national security strategy is the strategic planning document for the making and execution of U.S. 2 Given that it typically acts as the “umbrella” strategy guiding other high-level U.S. Section 603 of the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 requires each president to regularly transmit to Congress a classified and comprehensive national security strategy, though since 1987 presidents have opted to instead publish unclassified national security strategies for public distribution. national security strategies over more than four decades? 1 What’s new in it, and how much is “old wine in a new bottle”? More broadly, how can we assess continuity and change in U.S.

12, 2022, the Biden administration released its long-awaited National Security Strategy.

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