Publication

This short transcript features the US Congressional testimony of Dr Ely Ratner, who is CNAS' Deputy Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program. In particular, Ratner focuses on what's needed to facilitate the ‘rebalancing’ of US interests to the Asia-Pacific region. Having a robust and geographically-distributed military presence is necessary, but so is the construction of an open and inclusive regional security order undergirded by widely-accepted rules and institutions. Ratner concludes by providing three ways to create the latter.