EI Senior Fellow John Austin and Elaine Dezenki at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies conceived of and promoted the construct of allyshoring as a powerful response to today’s economic, security and foreign policy challenges and opportunities.
America and our friends around the world need to enhance our economic partnerships and positioning in order to strengthen democracy’s collective hand vis-a-vis the political, economic and military threats emanating from China, Russia and others seeking to overturn the West-led, post World II, open, and rules-based international economic, trade, and political order. This collaborative work includes reducing strategic dependencies, reworking global supply chains, enhancing international co-production relationships with countries of shared values, while checking the behavior, and the economic and politically coercive use of economic dependencies by authoritarians.


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What’s New
Catch the latest developments in allyshoring and enhanced allied economic and political engagement.
- German Council on Foreign Relations: Now More Than Ever - Democratic Leaders Needs to Stick Together
Articles and Reports
Guides for practitioners and policy-makers around putting allyshoring principles and practices to work.
- Council on Foreign Relations: The Time Is Right for Ally-Shoring, and It's About More Than Being Friends
- Brookings: Rebuilding America’s Economy and Foreign Policy Through Allyshoring
- Foreign Policy: Democracy Needs a New Sales Pitch
- Innovation Australia: On Pandemics, Supply Chains and Global Networks of Trust
- UK Defence Supply Chain Strategy
- The Atlantic Council: Allyshoring: A Democratic Trade Partnership
- National Interest: Tweaking the Inflation Reduction Act Can Strengthen Democracies' Hand
Media
- Miami Herald
- The New York Times
- Barrons
- Newsweek
- Mexico Today
- Politico
- Fortune
- Forbes
- Barrons
- Crains Chicago Business
- PhilStar Global
- Automotive News
Collaborative Projects and Events
- US Mexico Foundation Allyshoring
- Council of State Governments – Midwestern Legislators Conference: The Case for Allyshoring
- Allyshoring in EVs: Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD)
- Go Global Kansas City
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For more information contact John Austin, Senior Fellow, Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College, jaustin@gettysburg.edu.
Allyshoring Architects
Eisenhower Institute’s John Austin and Elaine Dezenki at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, are the original architects of the concept of allyshoring as a powerful response to today’s economic, security and foreign policy challenges and opportunities.