THE PRINCETON PROJECT ON NATIONAL SECURITY

NATIONAL SECURITY 2.0:
DISCUSSING AMERICA’S STRATEGIC CHALLENGES &
LAUNCH OF THE PRINCETON PROJECT ON NATIONAL SECURITY REPORT

Wednesday, 27 September 2006
SD-G50, Dirksen Senate Office Building, U.S. Senate

Please RSVP to communications@newamerica.net or call Sarah Brennan at 202-986-4901.

8:30 a.m.
Coffee & Registration

9:00 a.m.
Achieving America’s Next National Security Consensus?
an Overview of the Princeton Project on National Security

ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER
Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

THE HON. JOSEPH BIDEN (D-DE)*
Ranking Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U.S. Senate
(The time of Sen. Biden’s presentation may be adjusted)

10:00 a.m.
Benchmarking Successes & Failures:
Does America Need a New Grand Strategy?

THE HON. JAMES DOBBINS
Director, International Security & Defense Policy Center, RAND Corporation
Former Special Envoy to Afghanistan (Bush Administration)

MORTIMER B. ZUCKERMAN
Chairman & Editor-in-Chief, US News & World Report
Publisher, New York Daily News
Chairman of the Board, Boston Properties

G. JOHN IKENBERRY
Albert J. Milbank Professor, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Princeton University

moderator and provocateur
HELENE COOPER
Diplomatic Correspondent, The New York Times

11:00 a.m.
The Economic Dimensions of National Security:
Can the US Economy Bear the Load of America’s International Objectives?

THE HON. DAVID M. RUBENSTEIN
Co-Founder and Managing Director, The Carlyle Group

THE HON. DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAKIN
Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and
Paul A. Volcker Chair in International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations
Former Director, Congressional Budget Office

JAMES GLASSMAN
Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Editor, forthcoming AEI magazine, The American

moderator and provocateur
SEBASTIAN MALLABY
Economics Columnist, The Washington Post

12:00 p.m.
Debating and Confronting America’s National Security Challenges

THE HON. CHUCK HAGEL (R-NE)
U.S. Senator

12:30 p.m.
LUNCHEON AND PANEL DISCUSSION

National Security in the 21^st Century: Old Rules, New Threats

THE HON. JOHN B. BELLINGER III
Legal Adviser to the Secretary of State, Department of State

PETER BERGEN
Senior Fellow, New America Foundation
Fellow, Center on Law & Security, New York University
Terrorism Analyst, CNN

ALISTAIR CROOKE
Founder & Co-Director, Conflicts Forum
Former Special Mid-East Adviser to European High Representative Javier Solana 

THE HON. ANTHONY LAKE*
Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Former National Security Advisor to President Clinton 

SUZANNE NOSSEL
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress/Century Foundation

KENNETH R. TIMMERMAN
Author, Countdown to Crisis:  The Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran
Founding Member, Committee on the Present Danger

moderator and provocateur
DAVID IGNATIUS
National Security Columnist, The Washington Post

*invited

1:45 p.m.
Concluding Remarks and Adjournment

STEVEN CLEMONS
Director, American Strategy Program, New America