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General David
Petraeus Honored with Distinguished Service Award in New
York
The
Center for the National Interest honored General David
Petraeus, the Director of the Central Intelligence
Agency, at its first New York Distinguished Service
Award Dinner on May 15 at the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel. The
Chairman of the Center’s Board of Directors, Maurice
Greenberg, introduced General Petraeus and Honorary
Chairman Henry Kissinger and General Charles Boyd, USAF
(Ret.), presented the award. Center President Dimitri
Simes also spoke. Guests at the dinner included Governor
Dannel P. Malloy of Connecticut and New York City Police
Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, as well as members of the
Center’s Board including Vice Chairman Dov Zakheim,
Leslie H. Gelb, Grover Norquist, Paul Saunders, and Brent Scowcroft.
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A Discussion with
Robert Zoellick
On the evening of May 8,
the Center for the National Interest hosted an
off-the-record discussion with outgoing World Bank
President Robert Zoellick as part of the Robert F.
Ellsworth Study Group on U.S. Foreign Policy. Study
group director Jacob Heilbrunn and chairman Dov Zakheim
moderated.
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U.S.-Russia
Dialogue in Moscow
On April 9-10, the Center
organized U.S.-Russia dialogue meetings in Moscow in
cooperation with the Institute for Contemporary
Development. Outgoing President Dmitry Medvedev is the
chairman of the Institute. American participants in the
meetings included Center President Dimitri K. Simes,
Center Starr Distinguished National Security Fellow Gen.
Charles Boyd, Center Executive Director Paul Saunders,
former Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control
Stephen Rademaker, and Georgetown University Professor
and terrorism expert Bruce Hoffman, who is also a
Contributing Editor of The National Interest. The group
discussed missile defense, Syria, and U.S.-Russian
relations after Vladimir Putin's re-election as
President in discussions with Russian experts as well as
in meetings with senior Russian officials.
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Greenberg on China
On April 19, Maurice
Greenberg, Chairman and CEO of C.V. Starr and Chairman
of the Center for the National Interest, spoke at length
about his impressions of China's direction. He offered
an optimistic vision in which the United States and
China have enormous opportunities for mutually
beneficial interaction, especially in the area of trade,
and suggested that there is far less risk of a military
conflict than many think. Former National Security
Advisor Brent Scowcroft moderated.
A summary is available
here.
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A Conversation
with Governor Jon Huntsman
On April 16, the Center
for the National Interest hosted a dinner discussion
with Jon Huntsman, who has been a presidential
contender, governor of Utah, and ambassador to China and
Singapore. Board member Ambassador Richard Burt
moderated.
The event was
off-the-record.
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In this edition of The National Interest
The
May/June issue of The National Interest is
now available! This special issue
features commentary by a range of
eminent scholars on the present sweeping
changes in the world system. Editor Robert
Merry
argues that America's political system
will remain in crisis until a new political
consensus emerges, which could take many
years. Brent Scowcroft discusses the
challenges of a new international system in
which traditional notions of state
sovereignty
clash with globalized problems.
Christopher Layne suggests that the forces
of history are
too powerful for America to prevent the
end of its hegemony. Christopher Whalen
lays out the case that the dollar might
not always be the world's reserve currency,
while Gideon Rachman argues that the
European debt crisis could
lame efforts for deeper integration.
Jonathan Broder states that the
revolutionary Middle East is
fraught with risks and opportunities for
America, while Alan Dupont warns of the
severe
dangers present in competition between
America and China and Parag Khanna sees the
"Second World" playing a
decisive role in the coming century.
Reviews of recent books examine the Roman
Empire, the challenges of global governance,
and the legacy of the late American diplomat
Richard Holbrooke.
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| RECENT PUBLICATIONS |
Extended Deterrence
and Security in East Asia
The Center for the National Interest's
U.S.-Japan-South Korea project published a
report on the first two dialogue meetings in
an ongoing series of four. Center Executive
Director Paul J. Saunders organized the
dialogue meetings in collaboration with the
Tokyo Foundation and the U.S.-Korea
Institute at SAIS and with the support of
the Center for Global Partnership.
Can Russia Help Us
Withdraw from Afghanistan?
Center for the National Interest
Vice-Chairman Dov S. Zakheim and Executive
Director Paul J. Saunders
published an op-ed in The New York
Times and the International Herald
Tribune, arguing that the U.S. should
expand its cooperation with Russia instead
of relying heavily on Pakistan as a supply
corridor, given the deteriorating
relationship with Pakistan.
Russia and U.S.
National Interests: Why Should Americans
Care?
The Task Force on Russia and U.S. National
Interests, co-sponsored by the Belfer Center
at Harvard Kennedy School and the Center for
the National Interest, published a report
assessing Russia from the perspective of
U.S. national interests and offering
prescriptions for coherent, realistic
management of the U.S.-Russia relationship.
The task force was co-chaired by Graham
Allison, Director of the Belfer Center, and
Robert D. Blackwill, Henry A. Kissinger
Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign
Relations. Center President Dimitri K. Simes
directed the project and Center Executive
Director Paul J. Saunders was a senior
advisor and editor of the
report.
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