Recognize my great friend and colleague, the best president of the best World Affairs council in the United States. I know we have a lot of World Affairs Council Members here. Gym falk, very, very grateful to jim for his help in this. As ive said, weve got the players, including stephen hadley, who will be speaking tonight, a truly great Public Servant who is the director of the nsc under bush, and i say Public Servant in days when that meant something and it really mattered. We respected people who hold these high positions. Were going to look forward to hearing from him tonight. And i think without even leaving the stage, im going to get the first panel under way so we can start this. As a college professor, i would say get your notepads out. There are going to be questions, discussion, so were going to start with our first panel, and i want to invite the panelists to come up to the stage. Tim sayle from the university of toronto is going to chair the panel and lead the discussion. H
Studies, Johns Hopkins university, in d. C. Ambassador edelman has served in senior positions at the department of state and defense as well as the white house. Hes served as u. S. Ambassador to finland and turkey and was Vice President dick cheneys Principal Deputy assistant for National Security affairs. Ambassador edelman has received several awards including a department of defense medal for distinguished public service, a distinguished civilian Service Award from the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and a president ial distinguished Service Award. Then to my far left, we have general doug lute. General lute has served most recently as the United States permanent representative to the north atlantic council, a position in which he retired in 2017. Previously general lute had a distinguished 35year career in the u. S. Army. He also served for a total of six years in the white house under both president s george w. Bush and barack obama. And in 2007, president bush named him dep
Sti perspective of a person who has studied decisionmaking in the white house. And a valuable member of really making the Network Connections and the interviews that are the underlying factor and underlying base of this project work. Will, i thank you for that, and i turn the mic over to you. [ applause ] all right. Thank you very much, jeff. Im honored to be moderating this panel here with four very dear friends and valued colleagues. There is a concern afoot that as a moderator i might let it go to my head and try to interject myself too much in the discussion. So ill be sitting down there while they make their presentations and come back up here during q and a time. You have the detailed bios of each of the speakers so i wont repeat those. First here is professor richard immerman. His bio says he recently retired from temple university. And that may be technically correct. I know richard well, richard does not know the meaning of the word retirement. Were Close Friends on the state
Good afternoon and welcome to the aspen institute. I am the executive director of the Strategy Group and formed and its a great pleasure to see this crowd. You will all be on cspan so be on your best behavior. We are here to launch an important book on the future of the u. S. China relationship called the struggle for power u. S. China relations in the 21st century. I want to say a word about that but first, recognize distinguished guests. I want to recognize the cochair of the organization, former secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice whos here with us. And youl you will be hearing fm secretary rice and about half an hour she will be one of our conversationalists. The harvard emeritus professor could not be here with us but is very much part of this effort. I want to pay tribute to the former secretary of defense and a very good friend of mine, secretary bill and mrs. Janet calling. Welcome. [applause] i also want to pay tribute to one of the people who form the embodies bipartisanship
I know we have a lot of World Affairs Council Members here. Jim faulk, very hateful for this help. We have players, including stephen hadley, who will be speaking tonight. A truly great Public Servant which the director of the nsc under bush, i say Public Servant in days when that meant something and it really mattered. We respected people who hold these types of positions. We look forward to hearing from him tonight. And i think without even leaving the stage, i will get the first panel underway so that we can start this. If i was a college professor, i would say, get your notepads out. We will start with our first panel, and i want to invite the panelists to come up to the stage. Tim sale from the university of toronto is going to chair the panel and lead the discussion. He works on nato, who has been in the news quite a bit. Meghan osullivan, the kirkpatrick professor at the Kennedy School at harvard, an expert on north america, among other things, and one of the officials of the tr