Grand Strategy: Recent and Upcoming Events

Revamping American Grand Strategy

Communications — Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:00:00 -0500

A New America Event
11/12/2003 - 12:00pm

Copies of the Fall 2003 World Policy Journal will be distributed to attendees.

Friend or Foe?

Communications — Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:00:00 -0500

A New America Event
12/11/2002 - 12:00pm

Is anti-Americanism really running as rampant as the media would have us believe? Does the world stand behind the American war on terror? Do developing nations -- and the silent majorities that exist in any country -- see America as a savior or predator? What does this attitude mean for our future as a superpower?

Please join us as Bruce Stokes, Elizabeth Gross, and Mary McIntosh -- all of whom helped lead and organize a major… more

Does America Have Too Much Power for Its Own Good?

Communications — Mon, 09 Dec 2002 11:00:00 -0500

A New America Event
12/09/2002 - 12:00pm

Charles Kupchan is one of America's leading foreign policy intellectuals, and has produced an important book that cuts against the grain of Washington's contemporary military and economic triumphalism. In his book, Kupchan argues that the current political landscape -- including the end of the Cold War, the emergence of a significantly more competitive Europe, a waning interest among American citizens in foreign policy, a growing tendency toward U.S. unilateralism, and the profound impact of the digital age --… more

American Grand Strategy

Communications — Mon, 04 Nov 2002 11:00:00 -0500

A New America Event
11/04/2002 - 12:00pm

The Bush Administration's recently enunciated national security doctrine with its emphasis on pre-emptive regime change and the pursuit of permanent military dominance does not serve American interests. Nor does it provide the foundation for a stable world order conducive to American values and long-term well-being. This panel of experts explains why the Bush doctrine is wrong for both the United States and the world and offers an alternative set of ideas for a foreign policy more suited to the international… more

The World and George W.

Communications — Fri, 11 Oct 2002 12:00:00 -0400

A New America Event
10/11/2002 - 12:00pm

On behalf of the New America Foundation and American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, we are pleased to invite you to a "just in time" brown bag lunch meeting titled "The World and George W.: A Foreign Policy Conversation" with one of Germany's, and Europe's, most important perspective-shapers on foreign policy: Stefan Kornelius, Foreign Editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany's largest mainstream commercial paper.

Kornelius previously served as Washington Bureau Chief of the Süddeutsche Zeitung and regularly writes… more

War Crimes in a New Era: Regulating Conflict Post-Cold War and -9/11

Communications — Tue, 02 Jul 2002 12:00:00 -0400

A New America Event
07/02/2002 - 12:00pm

For most of its 53 years of existence, the Geneva Convention of 1949, the treaty regulating conflict between and within states, has been largely ignored. But it took on new life in the decade after the Cold War ended, following massive atrocities in Bosnia and in Rwanda. The establishment of UN tribunals to prosecute violations breathed new life into humanitarian law and led to a movement to establish an international criminal court. The events of 9/11 and the Bush administration's… more