National Security 2.0

This event -- hosted jointly by the New America Foundation and the Princeton Project on National Security -- was a major day-long conference on Capitol Hill probing panels of experts on the challenges of the 21st Century with regards to developing a grand strategy, maintaining economic security, and revamping institutional rules for new threats.

The conference was punctuated by remarks on national security from Senators Joseph Biden (D-DE) and Chuck Hagel (R-NE) and closed by a discussion on democracy building with Honorary Co-Chair of the Princeton Project on National Security and former National Security Advisor Anthony Lake.

To read the final report “Forging a World of Liberty Under Law, U.S. National Security In The 21st Century” by Prof. G. John Ikenberry and Woodrow Wilson School Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter, click here.

Video of this conference is available at right, while the day's agenda is detailed below.

Agenda

8:30 a.m. -- Coffee & Registration

9:00 a.m. -- Achieving America’s Next National Security Consensus?
An Overview of the Princeton Project on National Security

• Anne-Marie Slaughter
  Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

9:15 a.m. -- Benchmarking Successes & Failures: Does America Need a New Grand Strategy?

• The Hon. James Dobbins
  Director, International Security & Defense Policy Center, RAND Corporation
  Former Special Envoy to Afghanistan (Bush Administration)
• Mortimer B. Zuckerman
  Chairman & Editor-in-Chief, US News & World Report
  Publisher, New York Daily News
  Chairman of the Board, Boston Properties
• G. John Ikenberry
  Albert J. Milbank Professor, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
  Princeton University
• Simon Serfaty
  Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy
  Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Helene Cooper (moderator and provocateur)
  Diplomatic Correspondent, The New York Times

10:15 a.m. -- The Economic Dimensions of National Security: Can the US Economy Bear the Load of America’s International Objectives?
(This panel will be bifurcated with one segment before Sen. Biden and one following.)

• The Hon. David M. Rubenstein
  Co-Founder and Managing Director, The Carlyle Group
• The Hon. Douglas Holtz-Eakin
  Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and
  Paul A. Volcker Chair in International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations
  Former Director, Congressional Budget Office
• Steven Rattner
  Managing Principal, Quadrangle Group LLC
  Former Deputy Chairman, Lazard Frères & Co., LLC
• Daniel Yergin
  Chairman, Cambridge Energy Research Associates
• James K. Glassman
  Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
  Editor, forthcoming AEI magazine, The American
• Bernard L. Schwartz
  Former Chairman & CEO, Loral Space & Communications
  Chairman, BLS Investments LLC
• Sebastian Mallaby (moderator and provocateur)
  Economics Columnist, The Washington Post

11:00 a.m. -- Confronting Global Challenges and the Demands of Enlightened American Leadership

• The Hon. Joseph Biden (D-DE)
  Ranking Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee

11:30 a.m. -- panel continuation
The Economic Dimensions of National Security: Can the US Economy Bear the Load of America’s International Objectives?

12:00 p.m. -- Debating and Confronting America’s National Security Challenges

• The Hon. Chuck Hagel (R-NE)
  U.S. Senator

12:30 p.m. -- Luncheon and Panel Discussion
National Security in the 21st Century: Old Rules, New Threats

• The Hon. John B. Bellinger III
  Legal Adviser to the Secretary of State, Department of State
• Peter Bergen
  Senior Fellow, New America Foundation
  Fellow, Center on Law & Security, New York University
  Terrorism Analyst, CNN
• Alistair Crooke
  Founder & Co-Director, Conflicts Forum
  Former Special Mid-East Adviser to European High Representative Javier Solana
• Suzanne Nossel
  Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress/Century Foundation
• Kenneth R. Timmerman
  Author, Countdown to Crisis: The Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran
  Founding Member, Committee on the Present Danger
• David Ignatius (moderator and provocateur)
  National Security Columnist, The Washington Post

1:30 p.m. -- Thoughts on the Debate About Democracy Building: A Conversation

• The Hon. Anthony Lake
  Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy
  Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
  Former National Security Advisor to President Clinton
  Co-Chair, Princeton Project on National Security
• Tod Lindberg
  Editor, Policy Review
  Research Fellow, Hoover Institution

2:00 p.m. -- Concluding Remarks and Adjournment

• Steven Clemons
  Director, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation