Aspen Strategy Group Releases a Call to Action on National Service
The Aspen Strategy Group has released a bipartisan statement calling for the renewal of America’s national service programs, following the discussions that took place during its annual Summer Workshop.
The statement, signed by leading foreign policy and national security experts across party lines, details the benefits of investing in a strong national service initiative which would help heal America’s domestic divisions while bolstering the nation’s pandemic response. As the document states, “America needs a renewed common purpose” and national service is an important investment in the future of our national security.
Read the full statement here.
This Week's Content Highlights
Features from Aspen Strategy Group Members
Sylvia Burwell on MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell
Kurt Campbell and Stephen Hadley on Transition Lab podcast: “Steve Hadley and Kurt Campbell on National Security Transitions”
Ash Carter and Nicholas Thompson in Wired: “The Tech That's Championing the Public Good”
Anja Manuel in The Wire China: “China Memos for the Next President”
Joseph Nye in Foreign Policy: “COVID-19 Might Not Change the World”
Anne-Marie Slaughter and Stephen Walt in a Miller Center debate: “Democracy & Strategy: American Statecraft in the 21st Century”
James Steinberg in Chicago Council on Global Affairs discussion: “Decoupling or Recoupling US-China Relations”
Frances Townsend and Sylvia Burwell co-chair a Council on Foreign Relations report: “Improving Pandemic Preparedness: Lessons From COVID-19”
Robert Zoellick in The Wall Street Journal: “Trump Is Losing His New ‘Cold War’ with China”
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Brad Lendon on CNN: “North Korea Unveils Massive New Ballistic Missile in Military Parade”
Anja Manuel in the Financial Times: “U.S., Europe, and UK Must Unite To Keep Chinese Tech At Bay”
John McLaughin on Ozy: “China: Charting a Course Between Conflict and Accommodation”
Charles Race in Navy Times: “The Navy Celebrates 245 Years of Service, But It Wasn’t Always Such A Sure Thing”
Marietje Schaake in Foreign Affairs: “The Lawless Realm: Countering the Real Cyberthreat”
Megan Specia and Matina Stevis-Gridneff in The New York Times: “World Food Program Awarded Nobel Peace Prize for Work During Pandemic”
Catherine Thorbecke on ABC News: “In History-Making First, the World Trade Organization Will Be Led by a Woman”
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Domestic and International (Dis)Order: A Strategic Response
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Join us for the launch of our latest book of strategic policy recommendations stemming from our conversations at the 2020 Aspen Strategy Group Summer Workshop.
This edition covers four themes: race, democracy, and political divisions in America; the state of U.S.-China relations; the global economic recession; and foreign policy priorities for 2021.
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By Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Drawing us deep into an “other America,” the authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the people with whom Kristof grew up, in rural Yamhill, Oregon. It’s an area that prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs disappeared.
About a quarter of the children on Kristof’s old school bus died in adulthood from drugs, alcohol, suicide, or reckless accidents. While these particular stories unfolded in one corner of the country, they are representative of many places the authors write about, ranging from the Dakotas and Oklahoma to New York and Virginia.
With their superb, nuanced reportage, Kristof and WuDunn have given us a book that is both riveting and impossible to ignore.
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