12.12.2009

Secretary of State Clinton on "Smart Power" on Dec 7, 2009


Please click here for video, text, and photos of Secretary Clinton's remarks on smart power at an award dinner for Clinton hosted by the US Global Leadership Coalition.

Copenhagen, National Security and the Road Ahead on Friday, Dec 11 - hosted by National Security Network

Reminder: NSN Member's Lunch
Friday, December 11 at 12pm

Copenhagen, National Security and the Road Ahead
(Call in numbers below)
After months of discussion about the national security ramifications of climate change and energy insecurity, the moment of decision has arrived with the United Nations’ Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC) conference in Copenhagen December 7 – 18 – or has it? With the conference’s prospects uncertain, President Obama has announced that he will time his visit with those of Indian and Chinese leaders – and committed to cut US emissions by 17 percent over the next decade. Will that give talks the impetus they need? What outcomes can we expect? And what will follow up look like? Please join the National Security Network as a panel of experts –Sherri Goodman of the Center for Naval Analysis, Michael Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Andrew Light of the Center for American Progress – discuss the pending negotiations, their national security implications, and the road ahead for Congress and the Administration .

Mark Brzezinski and McGuire Woods will again serve as our gracious hosts, and we are most grateful to them. The information is as follows:


Office of McGuire Woods
1050 Connecticut Avenue N.W., Suite 1200
Washington, DC

Dial In: 804-775-7800
Code: 121109


This will be a brown bag lunch. Beverages will be provided.
Please RSVP to rsvp@nsnetwork.org

ANDREW LIGHT, Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow at American Progress and Coordinator, International Climate Policy specializing in climate, energy, and science policy. He coordinates American Progress’s participation in the Global Climate Network, focusing on international climate change policy and the future of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. He is also director of the Center for Global Ethics at George Mason University.

MICHAEL A. LEVI is the David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is director of the CFR program on energy security and climate change and was project director for the CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force on climate change. Dr. Levi was previously a nonresident science fellow and a science and technology fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution.

SHERRI GOODMAN is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of CNA and serves as Executive Director of the Military Advisory Board for CNA's National Security and the Threat of Climate Change project. From 1993-2001 Ms. Goodman was Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Environmental Security), serving as the chief environmental, safety, and occupational health officer for the Department of Defense.

Obama's Nobel Lecture, 12/10/09

President Obama gave a clear articulation of his Administration's approach to war and peace in Oslo this week, stunning some in the audience and impressing many others. This speech is one of several that help Americans (and the world) understand the role of US power and moral authority going forward.

Read the text here. Watch the video here.

For more information on his views on our national security, watch Obama's Inaugural Address in Jan 2009, his National Archives speech on Guantanamo, and his speech on the surge in Afghanistan.