Asia v. the West?
Former United Nations Ambassador Kishore Mahbubani -- whom Foreign Policy
magazine ranked as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world
-- now declares that the American Century era is over.
Mahbubani told a packed audience at New America that the continent is not destined to repeat the bloody mistakes of Europe's 19th and 20th Centuries, having learned from the success of the EU's model of peaceful economic integration. The question that remains, however, is whether the United States and the West in general will embrace this new reality and adapt or resist it and threaten global stability even further.
Video of this April 28 event is available here. For more on Mahbubani and the future of the U.S. superpower, please click here.
On Day One
The American Strategy Program is partnering with the United Nations Foundation to develop a series of video shorts that capture and provoke bold, fresh foreign policy ideas in time for the inauguration of the next President of the United States.
The Latest from the American Strategy Program:
Articles
| Article | Date |
|---|---|
| Israel At 60 | May 9, 2008 |
| The Perils Of Unconditional Engagement | May 2, 2008 |
| Here Comes the Second World | May 1, 2008 |
| Wilson and the Founders: The Roots of Liberal Foreign Policy | May 1, 2008 |
| The U.S. Senate: Stalling Hemispheric Arms Control | April 30, 2008 |
| In Rocky's State, a Legislator Can Still Outpunch an Orator | April 22, 2008 |
| What High Oil Prices Can Do For a Country | April 18, 2008 |
| Clinton Has Strategic Blind Spot On China | April 17, 2008 |
| Blogging In Support Of the Saudi Government | April 17, 2008 |
| We Have To Clean Up Bush's Messes Before We Can Focus On China | April 17, 2008 |
Policy Papers
| Title | Date |
|---|---|
| Nuclear Bailout | March 2008 |
| Back to Basics: A Pro-Growth Public Investment Strategy | November 2007 |
| To Build or Not to Build? | October 2007 |
| Foreign Investment and Sovereign Wealth Funds | October 2007 |
| Terrorism: A Brief for Americans | February 2007 |
| Dealing with Tehran | December 2006 |
| Beyond Dominance | February 2004 |
| The Population Implosion | February 2004 |
| Opportunity Missed | February 2004 |
| Democracy in the Islamic World | February 2004 |
Events
| Event | Date |
|---|---|
| Posturing About the Future of Nuclear Weapons | May 20, 2008 |
| Grover Norquist on the Next Republicanism | May 15, 2008 |
| Foreign Policy Follies | May 13, 2008 |
| Briefing on Beirut (LIVE WEBCAST) | May 13, 2008 |
| Risks & Rewards of a Multilateral Counterterrorism Strategy | May 9, 2008 |
| How Many Nuclear Weapons Do We Need? | May 7, 2008 |
| Beyond the Torture Debate | May 6, 2008 |
| Ending the Nonsense in American Foreign Policy | April 30, 2008 |
| Asia vs. the West | April 28, 2008 |
| Sculpting the Next Transatlantic Relationship | April 25, 2008 |
Press
Scholars and Staff
- Steven Clemons
Director, American Strategy Program; Senior Fellow - Patrick C. Doherty
Deputy Director, American Strategy Program; Director, U.S.-Cuba Policy Initiative - William Hartung
Director, Arms and Security Initiative - Frida Berrigan
Senior Program Associate, Arms and Security Initiative - Flynt Leverett
Director, Geopolitics of Energy Initiative; Senior Fellow - Parag Khanna
Director, Global Governance Initiative; Fellow - Afshin Molavi
Director, Middle East Global Initiative; Fellow - Daniel Levy
Director, Middle East Policy Initiative; Senior Fellow - Jeffrey G. Lewis
Director, Nuclear Strategy & Nonproliferation Initiative - Maria Figueroa Kupcu
Co-Director, Privatization of Foreign Policy Initiative; Senior Research Fellow - Michael A. Cohen
Co-Director, Privatization of Foreign Policy Initiative; Senior Research Fellow - Ghaith al-Omari
Senior Research Fellow - Anatol Lieven
Senior Research Fellow - Sameer Lalwani
Policy Analyst - Katherine Tiedemann
Program Associate
Affiliated Scholars
The individuals below, while not formally affiliated with the American Strategy Program, frequently write and speak on issues of vital impotance to U.S. foreign policy:
ASP Features
American Strategy Program: Doing the New York Times' Homework
April 29, 2008
It's a curious honor to have the New York Times trolling your blog for reported story ideas. Nonetheless, that honor goes to our own Jeffrey Lewis, publisher of ArmsControlWonk.com, and director of the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative here at the New America Foundation.
Here's the scoop. Published in today's New York Times, William J. Broad's article, "A Tantalizing Look at Iran's Nuclear Program," explored an intriguing new source of intelligence on the Iranian nuclear program: photographs by the official Iranian news agency of President Ahmadinejad touring nuclear facilities with his defence minister, intelligence minister, and top nuclear expert.
To read more, click here.
George Soros on the Financial Crisis
April 4, 2008
The bursting of the sub-prime bubble forced eading hedge fund manager
and philanthropist George Soros out of retirement. Analyzing the
origins and remedies for the current financial crisis, Soros latest
book, released on April 3, 2008 as an electronic book, is entitled, The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means. Click here for the free e-book.
On April 4, 2008, American Strategy Program Director Steven Clemons moderated a media call with Mr. Soros.
Empires, Influence, and Global Order with Parag Khanna
March 17, 2008
Grand explanations of how to understand the complex twenty-first-century world have all fallen short -- until now. In The Second World,
Parag Khanna takes readers on a thrilling global tour, one that shows
how America’s dominant moment has been suddenly replaced by a
geopolitical marketplace wherein the European Union and China compete
with the United States to shape world order on their own terms.
This contest is hottest and most decisive in the Second World: pivotal regions in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and East Asia. Khanna explores the evolution of geopolitics through the recent histories of such underreported, fascinating, and complicated countries as Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Colombia, Libya, Vietnam, and Malaysia -- nations whose resources will ultimately determine the fate of the three superpowers, but whose futures are perennially uncertain as they struggle to rise into the first world or avoid falling into the third.
To read more click here.
Kenya on the Brink
March 3, 2008
Kenya
has drawn increasing scrutiny and absorbed U.S. policymakers' attention
after the disputed results of the December election set off rounds of
violence amongst political factions. During the runup to the elections,
European Parliament member and Deputy Chairman of the German Liberal
Democrats (FDP), Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, led an EU observer mission.
As one of the first and leading voices to express doubts about the
election process, he drew international attention to the electoral
crisis. Graf Lambsdorff has argued that Kenya's electoral commission
failed to establish the credibility of the vote-counting process due to
unaddressed reported irregularities. Because of those irregularities,
he has stated that some doubt remains about the accuracy of the
official results.
To see more, click here.
