The Miller Center's First Year Project: National Security and World Order
The Wilson Center and UVA’s Miller Center invite you to join us for a series of two panels on the topic of national security in a president’s first year. Panel I explores the successes and failures of past administrations in grappling with early foreign policy decisions and the lessons learned. The second discussion looks forward to the next presidency. Panelists will assess best practices and their optimal application to contemporary security issues confronting America and the world.
Overview
The Wilson Center and UVA’s Miller Center invite you to join us for a series of two panels on the topic of national security in a president’s first year. Panel I explores the successes and failures of past administrations in grappling with early foreign policy decisions and the lessons learned. The second discussion looks forward to the next presidency. Panelists will assess best practices and their optimal application to contemporary security issues confronting America and the world.
Panel I: How New Presidents Have Succeeded-and Failed-in National Security Policy
Bill Plante: Moderator
CBS News White House News Correspondent
Hal Brands
Associate Professor, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Jeffrey Engel
Director, Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University
Melvyn Leffler
Faculty Associate and Edward Stettinius Professor of History, University of Virginia and former Wilson Center Fellow
Marc Selverstone
Chair, Presidential Recordings Program, The Miller Center and Associate Professor, University of Virginia
Panel II: Preparing the Next Commander-in-Chief
Mark Landler:Moderator
White House Correspondent for The New York Times
The Honorable Jane Harman
Director, President and CEO, The Wilson Center
Michéle Flournoy
Co-Founder and CEO, Center for a New American Security and former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
Philip Zelikow
White Burkett Miller Professor of History, University of Virginia and former Counselor of the Department of State
Speakers
Jane Harman
Bill Antholis
Bill Plante
Hal Brands
Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and a Bloomberg Opinion columnist.
Jeffrey A. Engel
Mark Landler
White House Correspondent, The New York Times
Melvyn P. Leffler
Professor Emeritus of American History at The University of Virginia
Marc J. Selverstone
Michèle Flournoy
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