The next U.S. president will face crucial and complex foreign policy challenges including: international terrorism, weapons proliferation, weak and failing states, climate change, and global poverty. How these issues are addressed will have important implications for the U.S. and the world. What instruments are available to deal with these problems? What are the constraints on U.S. capacity to formulate and implement an effective foreign policy in a dangerous world? Will foreign policy change in any meaningful way?


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  • Helena Cobban
    Friend in Washington, Friends Committee on National Legislation
  • Dr. Nikolas Gvosdev
    Editor, The National Interest
  • Dr. Daniel Twining
    U.S. State Department
  • Dr. Abiodun Williams, Moderator
    The United States Institute of Peace

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