Engaging Today's Global Citizens

Conference on National and Global Security

Today, US national security increasingly relies on regional and international security. This interconnectedness demands multilateral efforts to address critical issues. It also requires the United States to examine how it can best leverage its strength to develop a compelling vision for 21st-century leadership.

"Leveraging US Strength in an Uncertain World" was the topic of the Stanley Foundation's first Conference on National and Global Security held in Washington, DC, on December 7. Transcripts, summaries, photos, audio, and video from the conference are now available on our Web site. You may also access the conference Web blog, which includes photos.

Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution, delivered the keynote address, "Bush Foreign Policy: The Next Stage."

The conference also featured the release of a poll conducted by the Program on International Policy Attitudes and commissioned by the Stanley Foundation. PIPA President Steven Kull presented findings of the poll "Post-Election Temperature Check: Citizen Views on Foreign Policy," and the results were covered by a number of media outlets from United Press International to the Adirondack Daily Enterprise.

Bloggers including Heather Hurlburt, Chris Preble, and David Shorr also wrote about the conference.

The conference's six panel discussions featured a mix of academics, authors, former government officials, military strategists, and others. Transcripts and summaries are available here; MP3s of each panel discussion may be also downloaded:

• Effective Counterterrorism in a Globalized World: Reclaiming the Edge of Legitimacy
• Enforcement of International Norms: Bringing and Keeping Dissenters in the Fold
• Rethinking the US Military Revolution
• A World Remade: The United States and Rising Powers in the 21st Century
• Strengthening Nuclear Nonproliferation and Expanding Nuclear Energy: Incompatible or Complementary Goals?
• Why Are We Failing Failing States?