If you’re going to be in Washington next Tuesday, October 12, the New America Foundation and the University of Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism (CPOST) are hosting an important, all-day conference on Capitol Hill. The conference will run from approximately 8:30 am – 5:00 pm, covering a broad array of vital national security topics, featuring an all-star cast of scholars, thinkers, and practitioners. Click here to RSVP.
The University of Chicago Project on Security & Terrorism
and the New America Foundation
cordially invite you and your colleagues to a major national policy forum in the US Congress
CUTTING THE FUSE:
MOVING BEYOND THE WAR ON TERROR
TUESDAY, 12 OCTOBER 2010
8:30 am Registration – 5:00 PM Adjournment
The Congressional Auditorium
Visitor Center, U.S. Capitol
8:30 am
Registration & Coffee
9:00 am
Welcoming Remarks
STEVE CLEMONS
Director, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation
Publisher, The Washington Note and Editor at Large, Talking Points Memo
9:10 am
Setting the Stage: Seeing Through the Fog of War to America’s Strategic Priorities at Home and Abroad
THE HON. BRIAN BAIRD
Chairman, Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment, Committee on Science & Technology
U.S. House of Representatives
Author, Character, Politics & Responsibility: Restarting the Heart of the American Republic
9:45 am
Changing Up America’s Strategic Options: The Navy’s Role in Offshore Balancing
ADMIRAL GARY ROUGHEAD
Chief of Naval Operations
10:15 am
When the Ivory Tower Connects to Washington:
Empirical Research on Terrorism and Implications for Military Strategy
ROBERT PAPE
Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
Director, University of Chicago Project on Security & Terrorism
Co-Author, Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It
11:00 am
Reviewing & Reconsidering US Strategy in the Middle East
KORI SCHAKE
Research Fellow, Hoover Institution
Senior Policy Advisor for National Security, McCain-Palin Campaign
Associate Professor, International Security Studies, US Military Academy
SETH G. JONES
U.S. Special Operations Command, Office of the Secretary of Defense/Policy Special Operations & Combating Terrorism
Political Scientist, RAND Corporation
Author, In the Graveyard of Empires: America’s War in Afghanistan
FLYNT LEVERETT
Director, Geopolitics of Energy Initiative, New America Foundation
Publisher, Race for Iran
12:00 pm
Lunch & Blackberry Break
12:30 pm
U.S. Security in the Age of Emerging Threats
THE HON. THOMAS KEAN
Former Governor of New Jersey
Chair, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States (9/11 Commission)
1:15 pm
Thinking Through the New Security Puzzle: Terrorism & Asymmetric Threats
THOMAS SCHELLING
Nobel Laureate in Economics
Author, The Strategy of Conflict
JENNA JORDAN
Research Associate, Chicago Project on Security & Terrorism, University of Chicago
GLENN CARLE
Former Acting National Intelligence Officer for Transnational Threats, Central Intelligence Agency
Author, The Interrogator (forthcoming)
2:15 pm
Through the Fog of War: Homeland Security and Civil Liberties
THE HON. JOHN B. BELLINGER III
Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP
Adjunt Senior Fellow for International and National Security Law, Council on Foreign Relations
Former Legal Adviser, Department of State (2005-2009)
Senior Associate Counsel to the President and Legal Adviser, National Security Council (2001-2005)
PETER BERGEN
Director, Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative, New America Foundation
Author, The Longest War: America and al-Qaeda Since 9/11 (forthcoming)
SAHAR AZIZ
Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Former Senior Policy Advisor, Office for Civil Rights & Civil Liberties, Department of Homeland Security
3:15 pm
Constraints, Austerity, and U.S. Foreign Policy
BRUCE JENTLESON
Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, Duke University
Co-Author, The End of Arrogance: America in the Global Competition of Ideas
SIR CHRISTOPHER MEYER
British Ambassador to the United States, 1997-2003
Author, DC Confidential:The Controversial Memoirs of Britain’s Ambassador to the US
and Getting our Way: 500 Years of British Diplomacy
CHARLES KUPCHAN
Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Professor of International Affairs, Georgetown University
Former Director for European Affairs, National Security Council
Author, How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace
CHRISTOPHER PREBLE
Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute
Author, The Power Problem: How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous, and Less Free
4:15 pm
America’s Strategic Choices: More Consequential Today than in Generations
THE HON. ZALMAY KHALILZAD
Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan
Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Former Senior Director for Islamic Outreach & Southwest Asia, National Security Council
5:00 pm
Adjournment
— Andrew Lebovich
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