Please join the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs for a conversation with Robert Blackwill, Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center and Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. Ambassador Blackwill will discuss his new Council on Foreign Relations Special Report, “America Revived: A Grand Strategy of Resolute Global Leadership.” Rejecting restraint, nationalism, and Trumpism as unwise, the report argues for a U.S. foreign policy approach that draws on liberal internationalism and American primacy.
Ambassador Blackwill’s work focuses on U.S. foreign policy writ large as well as China, Russia, the Middle East, South Asia, and geo-economics. Most recently, he was senior fellow at the RAND Corporation California, from 2008 to 2010, after serving from 2004 to 2008 as president of BGR International, a Washington consulting firm. He was deputy assistant to the President and deputy national security advisor for strategic planning under President George W. Bush. He also served as presidential envoy to Iraq and was the administration's coordinator for U.S. policies regarding Afghanistan and Iran. Before joining the National Security Council, he served as the U.S. ambassador to India from 2001 to 2003.
The seminar will be moderated by Belfer Center Director Meghan O'Sullivan, Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School.
Attendance is virtual only. Please register to receive the meeting link. Please note this meeting will be recorded and posted online and is therefore on the record.
