Second, they may be inhibiting their ability to explore world markets. And i dont care what country you are, even if the Global Economy is bigger than you are. Dont cut yourself off from access to it. The same message needs to get to the european who is are struggling with a Single Market which at the same time may be accidentally preventing themselves from participating in a Global Market and letting the Global Market participate in the european one. So my message has always been economic. It is in your interests, mr. President , to invest in the internet, to keep it as open as possible and to allow your creative population to make use of it. No country has a corner on creativity and invention. Its uniformly distributed throughout the population of the world. Its just that the people with these ideas dont always have the wherewithall and support in order to explore those ideas. I will give you as a concrete example of that, how many folks come from india to the Silicon Valley or seatt
Have the legal basis to enforce your Net Neutrality preferences. And so i think wheeler had three possibilities. One, do nothing, in which case the Net Neutrality notions to the extent that people agree they are helpful and useful and preserve user choice would simply not succeed because of the lack of legal basis for fccs enforcement. The second possibility would have been to get the congress to create a new title in the Telecommunications Act specific to internet. Some of you will remember there was a brand x decision, this is the cable the Cable Companies and the Telephone Companies were saying were not regulated the same way. This is correct. There are two different titles in the telecom act for dealing with the entities and they were both providing Internet Service and the complaint was they are providing it under Different Ground rules and this isnt fair. And the question was what to do. The question was to get the congress to adopt an internet title appropriate to the internet t
Business molds designed to lift poor communities out of poverty. That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. Ing television for serious readers. They are running the Global Security project there. The Deputy National security assistant for iraq and afghanistan and spent some time as an advisor in iraq. And has been working on this book for several years times change while you had been working on them. Maybe will talk about how you decided and why did you write the book what keyed it off. Let me begin by saying good afternoon and thank you so much for spending your lunch hour with us in a special thanks to dan for doing this. He has been a source of advice, support and inspiration as i have really moved into this world in looking at this intersection. Thank you very much for that. My impetus for writing the book its almost on reflecting after my time in iraq as to how much the world needs to be understood by a foreignpolicy lunch an
Professor at the Harvard Kennedy school runs say Global Energy project in a special assistant to george w. Bush and a contributing assistant for iraq and afghanistan and spend some time as an adviser in iraq and working on this book several years times change but maybe we will start first why you decided on this book for what started this. Could afternoon thanks for spending your lunch hour with us, dan has been a source of advice and inspiration moving into this world with energy and politics. But my impetus for writing the book is almost on reflecting after my time has how much the world needs to be understood and then 2. Back and that is from the Foreign Policy perspective. And then to meet those saudi officials to leave maurer supportive of baghdad. Is seems to be working now but it is interesting to see that saudi resistance regime and that is motivated by a sectarian differences. And that what people did not fully appreciate that the time that they were the only holders of capaci
The new Energy Abundance upends Global Politics and strengthens americas power. We have the author here of course, meghan osullivan. Meghan is now a professor at the Harvard Kennedy school and once the Global Energy security project to bear. She was a special assistant to president george w. Bush and Deputy National security assistant for iraq and afghanistan, and spent some time as an advisor in iraq and has been working on this book for several years. Time has changed while you been working often. Maybe well start by just talking about how you decided and why you decided to write the book. Let me just begin by saying good afternoon and thanks so much for spending your lunch hour with us, and a special thanks to dan for doing this. Dan has been a source of advice, support and inspiration as i really moved into this world and looking at this intersection between energy and politics, so thank you very much for that. My impetus for writing the book, i wouldnt go back directly to iraq but