Forceful Engagement: The Role of Force in US Foreign Policy: Recent Trends and Lessons for the New Administration

Begins
 10 Apr 2008 - 1:00pm
Ends
 10 Apr 2008 - 5:00pm
Location
Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue
The Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School, in collaboration with the Security Policy Working Group

a forum on the militarization of U.S. foreign policy

Forceful Engagement:
The Role of Force in US Foreign Policy: Recent Trends and Lessons for the New Administration

Thursday, April 10th
1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
66 Fifth Avenue



Speakers include:
 Andrew J. Bacevich, Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University. Dr. Bacevich books include The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War (2005) and The Imperial Tense: Problems and Prospects of American Empire (2003)

Carl Conetta, co-director, Project on Defense Alternatives and author of the reports, Pyrrhus on the Potomac: How America's Post-9/11 Wars Have Undermined U.S. National Security and Disappearing the Dead: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Idea of a "New Warfare"

David Gold, Associate Professor of International Affairs, The New School, and author of GPIA Working Paper 2007–03 “Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of the U.S. War on Terror”

Bill Hartung, New America Foundation, former Director, Arms Trade Resource Center, The World Policy Institute, The New School, and author of How Much Are You Making on the War, Daddy? A Quick and Dirty Guide to War Profiteering in the Bush Administration (2003).


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