White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan is shortly due to deliver a major speech on the US international agenda at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. LIVESTREAM

• Sullivan’s last speech at the think tank in April 2023, was delivered amid a more auspicious global outlook, prior to the Middle East crisis. MNI’s summary of that speech can be read here. The ambitious agenda Sullivan presented in 2023, which he described as 'forging a new consensus', can be read in full here.
• Sullivan's speech last year came as Democrats were in a stronger position than the GOP, with former President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) atributed similar odds for taking the Republican presidential nomination.
• Sullivan's message in 2023 appeared to acknowledge that debates over isolationism were likely to be superseded by a new focus on alliance building and multinational cooperation: "Now, the idea that a “new Washington consensus,” as some people have referred to it, is somehow America alone, or America and the West to the exclusion of others, is just flat wrong."
• Brookings notes that Sullivan will, “reflect on the progress and challenges of the past 18 months and respond to the variety of responses and criticisms of his April speech. Sullivan’s remarks come as finance minister and central bankers from around the world gather in Washington for the Fall meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.”