Hoover Workshops on Urgent Security Choices

The world is in an exceptional period of crisis, arguably the most dangerous since 1962. Meanwhile, governments can no longer escape making choices about how they will shape the future global commons, as they adapt to the most important age of technological change in a century.

Hoover has created a new initiative, “Workshops on Urgent Security Choices”. This is not a long-term research program on a particular subject. Instead, the workshops will focus on vital strategic choices that may arise in the next 1-2 years. We will identify and examine specific policy questions that lie on the immediate horizon, where we believe that expert knowledge, deep and practical analysis can help provide strategic guidance to policymakers.

Led by Philip Zelikow, the program will draw upon Hoover’s own considerable network of talent and experience and on the expertise of others in the United States and beyond, to engage veteran crisis managers and strategic thinkers – not just to offer analysis and ideas about what to do, but also to tackle the ‘how’ – the real test of statecraft.