Allied Coordination Working Group

The Hoover Institution’s Allied Coordination Working Group (ACWG) designs actionable, integrated strategies to help allied democracies compete more effectively with China, informed by relevant historical cases.

Housed in the Hoover History Lab, the ACWG is in founding partnership with several Hoover groups: the Applied History Working Group; the Global Policy and Strategy Initiative; the Project on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region; and the Program on the US, China, and the World. It also draws on the expertise of colleagues at the Centre for Geopolitics at the University of Cambridge and the Institute of Geoeconomics in Tokyo.

Governments typically design policies unilaterally, within departmental silos. But in an age of competition with China, the allies must coordinate systematically throughout the policy development cycle. The ACWG provides a venue for allied experts and policymakers to consult about their interests, needs, and capabilities—and to develop strategies collaboratively, from first principles to operational design.