The Aspen Strategy Group

Jun 25, 20202 min

The Weekly Leaf: 6/25/20

This Week's Reads

Each week, we are pleased to share key insight and highlights from our Aspen Strategy Group members.

Nicholas Burns in Harvard Magazine: The Indispensable Power: On Restoring American Leadership through Diplomacy

Michele Flournoy in Foreign Affairs: How to Prevent a War in Asia

Joseph Nye in The Hill: Can We Recover our Soft Power?

Penny Pritzker chairs a report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: U.S. Foreign Policy for the Middle Class

David Sanger in The New York Times: Two Years After Trump-Kim Meeting, Little to Show for Personal Diplomacy

James Steinberg in Foreign Affairs: The Vision Thing: Is Grand Strategy Dead?

Philip Zelikow in Foreign Affairs: The Rise of Strategic Corruption: How States Weaponize Graft


Upcoming Events

Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

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A Conversation with Madeleine Albright

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Tuesday, June 30, 2020

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Recent Videos

Catch Up on Our Most Recent Digital Programming

CENTCOM: Protecting American Allies and Interests in the Middle East

Kenneth McKenzie & David Ignatius discuss how CENTCOM is continuing its mission in the Middle East in the midst of a global health crisis

Madeleine Albright and Jan Eliasson in Discussion

Madeleine Albright and Jan Eliasson in an Aspen Ministers Forum discussion on the United Nations


Things to Know

Stay Informed with Important Analysis Relevant to Aspen Security Forum Discussions

Hal Brands, Peter Feaver, & William Inboden in Foreign Affairs: In Defense of the Blob: America's Foreign Policy Establishment is the Solution, Not the Problem

Carter Malkasian in Foreign Affairs: How the Good War Went Bad: America's Slow-Motion Failure in Afghanistan

Gideon Rose in The New York Times: How Can the U.S. Fix its Foreign Policy?


Book of the Week

Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World

From former Secretary of Defense and CIA Director Robert Gates, author of the acclaimed best-selling memoir, Duty, comes a candid, sweeping examination of U.S. power in all its manifestations, and how it has been exercised, for good and for bad, by American presidents in the post-Cold War world.

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