WHITE PAPER: American Competitiveness Report – An Issue of National Security
Our ability to compete in a global economy, attract the world’s brightest workers and nurture a functional political system is slipping. This weakness is now at a point where it threatens to erode the pillars upon which America’s national security rests.
America’s competitiveness is now a matter of national security.
We need to acknowledge that current policies and objectives in the public and private sector, taken together, dangerously undercut America’s current and future global position through instability, inefficiency and risk. America’s political and business leaders must understand that improving our nation’s competitiveness is an urgent priority with much higher stakes than is acknowledged today.
This report argues that it is time to reconsider the interconnected factors causing this deterioration in order to determine a viable path to sharpening America’s edge.
Improving the country’s competitive position will require much more than assembling disparate policy initiatives and expecting them to deliver success.
Accordingly, the report examines interrelated elements of American present vulnerabilities: business climate, infrastructure, national debt, labor market and immigration, defense industrial base, as well as education and healthcare. And turning these to the strengths they once were.
In keeping with ASP’s core mission of examining more than military might when assessing national security, the report also reframes one of the recurring questions of international relations: What factors really make us strong and safe?
You can also check out the launch event of this report here
American Competitiveness- A matter of national security by The American Security Project
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