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Title America's National Security architecture : rebuilding the foundation / edited by Nicholas Burns & Jonathon Price ; contributors include: Graham Allison [and 20 others]
Published Washington, DC. : Aspen Institute, 2016
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Description 1 online resource (217 pages) : illustrations
Contents Part 1 : Identifying the threats : history in the making -- The eighth annual Ernest May memorial lecture : the Pearl Harbor system at 75 / Douglas Stuart -- Establish a White House council of historical advisors now / Graham Allison and Niall Ferguson -- Global challenges 2017 : what are the threats ahead? / John Sawers -- Part 2 : A new system for new challenges -- Speculation on economic/political consequences of a British withdrawal form the EU / Leah Joy Zell -- Government for a digital economy--in a time of deeply intertwined economic and national security imperatives / Zoë Baird -- Reshaping national security institutions for emerging technology / Christopher Kirchhoff -- Part 3 : The machinery of the U.S. government -- Reforming the National Security Council : three questions for the next president / Julianne Smith -- Reforming the National Security Council : policy prescriptions and recommendations / Stephen Hadley -- Investing in effective organizational dynamics at the National Security Council / Tom Pritzker -- Present at the "re-creation" : the role of the State Department in formulating and implementing U.S. global policy / James B. Steinberg -- Rethinking the architecture of U.S. national security : lessons from the homeland? Jane Holl Lute -- Part 4 : Modernizing America's national security tools -- What makes the third offset strategy so important? / James Cartwright -- Prospects for the third offset strategy / Dov S. Zakheim -- War by other means : geoeconomics and statecraft America's geoeconomic policy deficit / Robert D. Blackwill and Jennifer M. Harris -- Organizational agility in defense and national security : elephants learn to dance / John Dowdy and Kirk Rieckhoff -- Part 5 : Summary and concluding thoughts -- ASG 2016 wrap up / Peter Feaver
Summary In August 2016, the Aspen Strategy Group examined how to reform America's national security decision-making process. The papers in this volume provide practical solutions to repair the key functions of Washington's executive departments, agencies, and advisory bodies responsible for shaping U.S. foreign policy and national security
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject National security -- United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Security (National & International)
National security.
United States.
Form Electronic book
Author Burns, R. Nicholas, 1956- editor
Price, Jonathon, editor
ISBN 9781483596457
1483596451