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    Order from chaos: Building “situations of strength”
    A National Security Strategy for the United States

    When: Friday, February 24, 2017, 10:30 AM — 12:00 PM

    Where: The Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC

    On Friday February 24, the Foreign Policy Program at Brookings will release a bipartisan report that contains ideas for a new national security strategy at an exclusive conversation with members of the Brookings Order from Chaos Task Force. Since early 2015, the task force has convened Republican and Democratic foreign policy experts to draft BuildingSituations of Strength”, a report that outlines a U.S. policy for a period of geopolitical competition.

    This multi-year initiative joined Brookings’s Martin Indyk, Bruce Jones, Robert Kagan, and Thomas Wright with Derek Chollet (German Marshall Fund of the United States), Eric Edelman (Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments), Michèle Flournoy (Center for a New American Security), Stephen Hadley (United States Institute of Peace), Kristen Silverberg (Institute of International Finance), and Jake Sullivan (Yale Law School). Brookings’s Order from Chaos project is designed to provide analysis and policy recommendations for defending and reforming the international order for the 21st century.

    During the event, a selection of report authors will discuss the shifting geopolitical landscape and expand on their innovative strategies for confronting challenges to the postwar international order.

    Featured Speakers

    • Introduction: Strobe Talbott, President, Brookings Institution
    • Michèle Flournoy, Chief Executive Officer, Center for a New American Security
    • Stephen Hadley, Chair, Board of Directors, United States Institute of Peace
    • Martin Indyk, Executive Vice President, Brookings Institution
    • Kristen Silverberg, Former U.S. Ambassador to the EU
    • Moderator: Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor in Chief, The Atlantic 

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