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
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Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
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A Conversation with Madeleine Albright
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Tuesday, June 30, 2020
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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.