ON CSPAN2 NOW - Taming American Power: The Global Response of U.S. Primacy

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Taming American Power: The Global Response of U.S. Primacy
Stephen Walt

Stephen Walt outlines the different ways countries around the world, friends and foes alike, are currently resisting American power. He argues that if the U.S. wants to achieve its national security goals and preserve its primacy in the world, it will have to change its foreign policy. This would include, he says, a repudiation of the 2002 National Security Strategy (which allows for pre-emptive attacks) and a greater reliance on public diplomacy. The talk was hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. Includes Q&A.

Stephen Walt is a professor of international affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. His other books include "Revolution and War" and "The Origins of Alliances."

Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company 500 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10110

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1. The Center for Strategic and International Studies

The Center for Strategic and International Studies provides strategic insights and practical policy solutions to decision makers committed to advancing global security and prosperity. Founded in 1962 by David M. Abshire and Admiral Arleigh Burke, CSIS is a bipartisan, non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C with more than 220 employees. Former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn became chairman of the CSIS Board of Trustees in 1999, and John J. Hamre has led CSIS as its president and chief executive officer since April 2000.


http://www.csis.org/index.php

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2. Good info so far. comparing

how Americans see our role in the world and how other countries view us.
How other countries back each other up to resist our policies.. ie; the current situation in South America.

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3. You guys are missing some good questions...

2 billion going to China every week
US standing plummeting
US can only bomb countries into submission, as we've seen in Iraq, a small # of insurgents can get the best of you.

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4. thanx for heads up

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5. It was a little tame, and we at DU knew all this before (mostly)

but it was nice to see it hitting TV.

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6. Nice-on something besides FSTV