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
RSVP to Clemons@NewAmerica.net
For those not in Washington, we hope to stream this event live at The Washington Note and make it available for later viewing. There is some question about US Capitol rules regarding this — but hope to make program available.
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 Suicide Terrorism, University of Chicago
MARC SAGEMAN
Senior Fellow, Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism & Homeland Security, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Author, Understanding Terror Networks
2:15 pm
Through the Fog of War: Homeland Security and Civil Liberties
THE HON. JOHN B. BELLINGER III
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 US 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
TBA
5:00 pm
Adjournment
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This conference has received important support from the Cato Institute, the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, and Foreign Policy Magazine.
Steve Clemons
Director, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation
Publisher, The Washington Note
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