POLI 363 US Foreign Policy

Spring 2023

Simulation Day Two

We ended last class with the second round of meetings of departments and agencies. You were working on the aftermath of the interagency meetings. Everyone was getting a sense of how much consensus there is between agencies.

Can your agency develop answers to the key questions? Can you make some lists?

1. What are the likely Chinese actions?

2. List them in order of their likelihood.

3. What are US options for each one of these potential Chinese actions?

Underneath those substantive questions is a set of questions you may have to deal with. Within your agency:

· What have you agreed on?

· Where are there disagreements?

· Where can you compromise?

· Where will you not compromise?

· Things you don’t know?

Of course, you want to be aware of the interagency aspect:

· Where is there consensus with other agencies?

· Where is there disagreement with other agencies?

Session Two

Schedule

11-11:15: Department/Agency meetings to refresh our memories and finish up the discussion from Day One.

· The senior official of the Department/Agency should take attendance. If there is anyone missing, please notify me; this might change membership of some of the Interagency Committees

11:15-11:40: Interagency meetings

· Here you’ll begin to iron out all the agreements and disagreements.

· Chairs of Committees should begin making a list of what has been settled (agreed) and what is left unsettled (disagreements)

11:35--12:15: NSC Meeting

· Meet with the president

· The goal is to make recommendations.

· PC members will sit in an inner circle. Members of their Department/Agencies will sit near them

· The president will preside, but will mostly be asking questions

At all sessions, everyone should take notes. You’re making decisions; they need to be recorded.

Interagency Committees

(The Chair should take attendance. If there is anyone missing, please notify me; this might change membership of some of these Committees)

At all sessions, everyone should take notes. You’re making decisions; they need to be recorded.

National Security Council Principals Committee (NSC/PC)

1. Chair: National Security Advisor

2. Secretary of State

3. Secretary of Defense

4. Secretary of Energy

5. Secretary of Treasury

6. Attorney General

7. Director of National Intelligence

8. Chair Joint Chiefs of Staff

9. US Ambassador to the United Nations

10. CINC INDOPACOM

11. White House Chief of Staff

National Security Council Deputies Committee NSC/DC

1. Chair: Principal Deputy National Security Advisor

2. Deputy Secretary of State

3. Deputy Secretary of Defense

4. Deputy Secretary of Energy

5. Deputy Secretary of Treasury

6. Deputy Attorney General

7. Deputy Director of National Intelligence

8. Vice Chair JCS

9. Director of Central Intelligence

10. Director of WH Office of Legislative Affairs

11. Counselor of the State Department

National Security Council Policy Coordinating Committees (NSC/PCCs)

China PCC

1. Chair, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for China

2. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs

3. Director of CIA China Mission Center

East Asia PCC

1. Chair, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for East Asia and Oceania

2. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

3. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs

4. Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (IO)

Strategic Affairs PCC

1. Chair, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Strategic Planning

2. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs

3. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security

4. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy