The Ever Given captured the world’s attention when it grounded itself across the Suez Canal, blocking not only the waterway, but billions of dollars in trade; it also exposed deep vulnerabilities in the global shipping infrastructure that have been ignored for far too long.
Join Elisabeth Braw, resident fellow at AEI, for a long-overdue conversation on the fragility of our global shipping infrastructure. We discuss the Suez Canal block and how one disruption – from an accident to a proxy war to a grounding by the Ever Given – can create consequences that ripple across the world.
Elisabeth Braw is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where she focuses on defense against emerging national security challenges, such as hybrid and grayzone threats. Concurrently, she is a columnist with Foreign Policy, where she writes on national security and the globalized economy, and a member of the National Preparedness Commission (UK).
