The Next President: A World of Challenges

AAM will co-produce a bipartisan roundtable discussion to assess the U.S. foreign policy challenges confronting the next American president with five former Secretaries of State -- Madeleine K. Albright, James A. Baker, III, Warren Christopher, Henry Kissinger, and Colin L. Powell. The forum will take place on Monday, September 15, 2008, from 3:00pm to 5:00pm in George Washington University’s Lisner Auditorium.

This important discussion entitled “The Next President: A World of Challenges” will take place as the general election campaign swings into high gear, and the presidential candidates and the world focus on complex global issues ranging from violent extremism, the global economy, and climate change.  Secretaries Albright, Baker, Christopher, Kissinger and Powell’s unique discussion will offer valuable insight to the national debate that will be underway at that time over the future direction of American global leadership and the role of diplomacy.  

The event is hosted by The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs and School of Media and Public Affairs, Center for a New American Security, Rice University’s James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, and The City College of New York’s Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies.  Cooperating as media partners, AAM and CNN will broadcast the event as a special report.  The event will be moderated by Frank Sesno, director of GW’s Public Affairs Project and CNN special correspondent, and Christiane Amanpour, CNN chief international correspondent. The roundtable discussion will include questions from the audience.

This roundtable will be available as a podcast later this month at www.AmericaAbroadMedia.org.