After September 11: American Foreign Policy and the Multilateral Agenda

The conference coincided with the release of two new books, Managing Global Issues and Multilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy: Ambivalent Engagement. Order Managing Global Issues here. Order Multilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy: Ambivalent Engagement here.

The conference addressed such issues as:

· The Changed Global Context
· U.S. Track Record on Global Issues: A Balance Sheet
· International Perspectives on U.S. Policy
· The Challenge Ahead
· Topics: nuclear nonproliferation, peacekeeping, chemical and biological weapons, crime and money laundering, international criminal court, development, trade, climate change

The event included leading U.S. and international experts: Jessica Mathews, Carnegie Endowment; Richard Haass, Department of State; Shepard Forman, Center on International Cooperation; Amy Smithson, Stimson Center; Thomas W. Graham Jr., Lawyers Alliance for World Security; Elliot Diringer, Pew Center on Global Climate Change; Stewart Patrick, Center on International Cooperation; Nancy Birdsall, Center for Global Development; P.J. Simmons, Carnegie Endowment; Salih Booker, Africa Action; David Malone, International Peace Academy; Murray Hiebert, Far Eastern Economic Review; Jerry Fowler, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; Martin Woollacott, The Guardian; John Audley, Carnegie Endowment; Jonathan Winer, Alston & Byrd; Moisés Naím, Foreign Policy

Several of the presentations given at the conferences are available.

John Audley discussed the future of the multilateral trade agenda. Read the full text here

Elliot Diringer discussed the future of the US role in climate change. Read the full text here.

The Nov. 14th discussion concluded with a presentation on the challenge ahead by Richard Haass, Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department. Read text of speech.