Dec 8, 2020
Multiple promising vaccines for the coronavirus are nearing FDA approval, and the United States is gearing up for widespread vaccination. While the beginning of the end of the coronavirus crisis is in sight, the effect of the virus on international politics remains less clear. This week, the Eurasia Group Foundation’s Mark Hannah is joined by defense procurement and national security expert Dr. Eugene Gholz. They discuss what role the military should (and shouldn’t) play in distributing the vaccine and the complicated history of the Defense Production Act. They also explore the geopolitical impact of the coronavirus on the U.S.-China relationship, and its implications for a more restrained U.S. foreign policy.
Dr. Eugene Gholz is Associate
Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and
Adjunct Scholar at CATO’s Defense and Foreign Policy Initiative. From
2010-2012, he served in the Pentagon as Senior Advisor to the
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manufacturing and
Industrial Base Policy. Gholz co-authored “Come
Home, America,” a
seminal article making the case for a restrained American foreign
policy.