General keith alexander, until recently, the head of nsa and of Cyber Command at the pentagon, has characterized the cyber theft of American Intellectual property as ill quote the greatest transfer of wealth until history. And of course, were on the losing end of it. But no estimate can fully capture the real impact of trade secret theft. When other countries and foreign businesses steal our trade secrets, they are stealing our ideas. They are stealing our innovation. Most importantly, they are stealing our jobs. In my own state of rhode island, we continue to face unexpectedly high unemployment despite having some of the most innovative businesses in the country. If we do not protect our businesses, we are letting that innovation go to waste and we are letting american jobs go overseas. In the past, some companies were reluctant to talk about this issue because no one likes to admit that they have been victimized. But many are not coming forward to speak out because they recognize how
With this. We could claim they were a deterrent against the soviet union, but remember what i said about knowing whether a deterrent is working or not. It was a proposition that it was working. But we werent sure. There was also the realization as we understood sort of the texture of deterrence that our claims for extended deterrence, that we could actually extend the Nuclear Umbrella to nato, to the european states, to northeast asia, to japan and south korea. And, by the way, the philippines and australia eventually. That was the proposition. But that other word comes in here, whats the credibility of deterrent . Would we, as our allies said not literally but figuratively would we trade pittsburgh for paris . Thats just the alliteration, thats all im going for with that. We had somebody write about Tactical Nuclear weapons as a bridge, that would be henry kissinger, Nuclear Weapons in Foreign Policy, in order to reassure the allies that were worried that we would not engage in Strate
In government, chris served as a staffer on the House Foreign Affairs committee, under representative lee h. Hamilton as the Deputy Assistant secretary of state in the bureau of intelligence and research and as Deputy Director of the 9 11 commission. He was also the president of the 9 11 Public Discourse project, the commissions follow on Public Education organization. He served as a Senior Adviser to the iraq study group. Please welcome professor chris kojam. Its a real honor to be here tonight, and this is in the very best traditions of this school. A very erudite, accomplished policymakers into the academy, and so that both can benefit. And im deeply dedicated to this continuing interaction between scholarship and practice. So its a real honor tonight to introduce ambassador thomas pickering. He is a career ambassador. And that is the designation that very few ever receive. Only a few in a generation. And ambassador pickering really is a phenomenon. The most accomplished ambassador
Thomas pickering was ambassador to india and russia under the clinton administration. He spoke at George Washington University Last month about u. S. Efforts to promote democracy. This is about an hour and ten minutes. Thank you all for coming to this event. Were all very excited to hear from the honorable thomas pickering. The panel the conversation is going to be moderated by chris kojim who is a visiting professor of the practice of International Affairs after serving as the chairman of the National Intelligence council at the Elliot School he was previously the director of the mid career mipp program and director of the summer Foreign Policy program. In government, chris served as a staffer on the House Foreign Affairs committee, under representative lee h. Hamilton as the Deputy Assistant secretary of state in the bureau of intelligence and research and as Deputy Director of the 9 11 commission. He was also the president of the 9 11 Public Discourse project, the commissions follow
Thats one of the areas in which they had the least support, and theyve gotten the least insight. Theyre struggling with, how do i deal with whose kids native language is not english. That is a weak zone ive seen in my reporting. Not to mention kids with special needs. Kids far behind academically. Absolutely. Chris, is this your experience as well . Yeah. Its my experience with whatever state standards weve had in the past as well. I do think that we have a real challenge as a condition tri about what do we do with kids that are below grade level, our current testing structure tests at grade level. So how do we make sure were scaffolding so children can advance and were measuring growth, not just as part of our accountability system. I think these are all things that need to be looked at by states to make sure that special needs students and kids who are behind academically get there. I think we have time for one more question from the crowd. I think well go right here to the front. Sa