Foreign Policy Challenges in Obama's Second Term

On Tuesday, November 26, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), the New America Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute hosted an in-depth discussion on the foreign policy challenges faced by the Obama administration in its second term. With a politically turbulent Middle East, a financially teetering EU, and an increasingly technologically competitive Asia-Pacific region, Obama and his administration will face critical foreign policy decisions in the second half of his final term.

This event continued a unique collaboration among these institutions in the presidential campaign season, "Election 2012: The National Security Agenda." Past conversations covered the U.S. role in the world, policy in East Asia, and the national security budget.

4th Floor Conference Room

1899 L Street NW, Washington, DC 20036

 

Counselor, Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Former Special Assistant to President Obama

Former National Security Council senior director for the Central Region

Former Special Advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

 
Anne-Marie Slaughter

President and CEO, New America Foundation

Former Director of Policy Planning, U.S. Department of State

 
Robert Kaplan

Chief Geopolitical Analyst, Stratfor

Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security

 
Moderators:
Richard Fontaine

Center for a New American Security

 
Thomas Donnelly

American Enterprise Institute

 
Peter Bergen

New America Foundation

 

The demands for U.S. leadership are substantial--particularly in the dynamic Middle East and Asia-Pacific--yet fiscal challenges are forcing reductions in defense spending, sparking new thinking about American engagement with the world. In his final years in office, Obama and his administration will be faced will difficult and pressing foreign policy issues across a wide range of topics and geographic regions. This event is the eighth in a series of campaign-season seminars on the critical issues of U.S. foreign and defense policy, hosted by American Enterprise Institute, the Center for a New American Security and the New America Foundation.