For much of the last year, a group of policy experts, scholars and practitioners have been meeting to discuss the situation in Afghanistan, with the hope of of charting a “New Way Forward,” for America’s longest war.
TWN Publisher Steve Clemons and a select group of others have crafted a report (AVAILABLE HERE) of findings and recommendations for U.S. policy in Afghanistan, which will be released in an event TODAY at the New America Foundation, from 12:00 PM – 2:00 pm.
The event will livestream here at TWN, with Steve Clemons moderating an all-star expert discussion featuring the following:
PAUL PILLAR
Director of Graduate Studies, Center for Peace & Security Studies, Georgetown University
Former National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia
MATTHEW HOH
Former Afghanistan-based official with Department of State and US Marine Corps
Director, Afghanistan Study Group
STEVE COLL
President, New America Foundation
Author, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Contributing Editor, The New Yorker
BRIAN KATULIS
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
CHARLES KUPCHAN
Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Professor of International Affairs, Georgetown University
Author, How Enemies Become Friends
DARCY BURNER
Director, American Progressive Caucus Policy Foundation
ROBERT PAPE
Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
Director, Chicago Project on Suicide Terrorism
Author, Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism
Co-author of the forthcoming, Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It
session chair
STEVE CLEMONS
Director, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation
Publisher, The Washington Note
If you are in Washington and would like to attend the launch event, please RSVP here.
— Andrew Lebovich
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