International Security Seminar 2023

The content of this proceedings comes from the Second Annual International Security Seminar (ISS) held from 9-10 February 2023 in Jefferson Hall at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, NY. The conference theme was “Order, Counterorder, Disorder? Regional and Global Security Orders in the Shadow of Sino-American Competition.” The event was hosted by the West Point Department of Social Sciences, the Centre for Security, Diplomacy, and Strategy at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the MESO Lab of the Ohio State University, and the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding. The 2023 ISS involved more than 150 participants in 31 panels distributed over 15 working groups focused on regional and global security. Students and faculty from the West Point and the Modern War Institute were joined by top academics from around the world, as well as senior policy officials and leaders in the Army, and the Joint and Interagency communities in the United States. Submissions spanned a number of topics focused on clarifying issues and offering advice on Sino-American competition. After a peer-review process, papers were selected for the event, updated by authors based on feedback and input during the event, edited, and then included in these proceedings.