Events


Book Discussion and Reception: Difficult Transitions

November 13, 2008 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Willard InterContinental Hotel - Washington, DC


On November 13, 2008, CNAS hosted an evening discussion and reception featuring an important new book by Kurt M. Campbell and James B. Steinberg. Difficult Transitions: Foreign Policy Troubles at the Outset of Presidential Power is a bipartisan guide for incoming presidents and their foreign policy teams who seek to survive the landmines and booby traps that await them. In Difficult Transitions, the authors show how factors such as campaign promises, personnel issues, and a president’s developing relationship with Congress all present serious challenges to early establishment of effective foreign policy.

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Roundtable Discussion of the Middle East Peace Process

October 22, 2008 1:32pm - October 24, 2008 1:32pm

The Center for a New American Security hosted a roundtable discussion on the importance of the Middle East peace process to the next administration’s national security agenda.

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Singapore-U.S. Strategic Dialogue

October 2, 2008

On October 2-3, 2008, The Center for a New American Security hosted the first annual Singapore-U.S. Strategic Dialogue. Led by Kurt Campbell, CEO and co-founder of CNAS, the American panel was composed of a bipartisan group of senior foreign policy advisors to both American presidential candidates as well as leading scholars and strategists.  

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Officership in a Time of War

October 1, 2008

The Willard Intercontinental Hotel - Washington, DC

The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is hosting a panel discussion Wednesday, October 1, 2008, with General Peter W. Chiarelli, Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army; Lieutenant Colonel John Nagl (Ret.), Senior Fellow with CNAS and 1988 West Point graduate; Captain Jason Fritz, three tour Iraq veteran and 2002 West Point graduate; and Bill Murphy Jr., author of In a Time of War: The Proud and Perilous Journey of West Point’s Class of 2002.  

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Congressional Briefing on U.S. Energy Security Policy by CNAS Senior Fellow Sharon Burke

September 26, 2008 12:00pm - 1:30pm

The United State Capitol Building

The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) held a congressional staff briefing on the recently published report A Strategy for American Power: Energy, Climate and National Security with Sharon Burke, Senior Fellow at CNAS, and special guests.

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Lunch Address by ADM Gary Roughead, U.S. Navy CNO

September 25, 2008 12:00pm - 1:30pm

The Willard Intercontinental Hotel - Washington, DC

The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) held a private luncheon with ADM Gary Roughead, Chief of Naval Operations to discuss his vision for executing the new maritime strategy.

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Press Briefing on Afghanistan by CNAS Experts

September 18, 2008

The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) held a press briefing on Thursday, September 18, 2008 with Fellows Nathaniel Fick and Vikram Singh on their recent trip to Afghanistan where they visited Kabul, Kandahar, Ghazni, Panjshir, Nangarhar, Kapisa, Parwan, and Paktika provinces.  

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The Next President: A World of Challenges

September 15, 2008 2:45pm - 4:30pm

The Center for a New American Security and its consortium partners are hosting a bipartisan roundtable discussion to assess the U.S. foreign policy challenges confronting the next American president with five former Secretaries of State -- Madeleine K. Albright, James A. Baker, III, Warren Christopher, Henry Kissinger, and Colin L. Powell.  

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Press Briefing on Iraq with John Nagl, Colin Kahl, and Shawn Brimley

August 13, 2008

The Center for a New American Security - Washington, DC

The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) held a press briefing on Wednesday, August 13, with Senior Fellows John Nagl, Colin Kahl, and Shawn Brimley on their recent trip to Iraq.  They traveled to Iraq on the invitation of General David Petraeus.  

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LTG James Dubik lunch address with CNAS
Lunch Address by LTG James M. Dubik, Former Commanding General, Multi National Security Transition Command – Iraq

August 12, 2008

The Willard - Washington, DC

On August 12, 2008, LTG James M. Dubik, Former Commanding General of the Multi-National Security Transition Command in Iraq (MNSTC-I) and NATO Training Mission - Iraq (NTM-I), spoke with the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) on his experiences in Iraq as part of the National Security Leaders Forum (NSLF).

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