Throughout history, forward-looking statesmen like FDR, Gorbachev, Rabin, and Walesa – leaders who anticipated change and were willing to build alliances and engage with adversaries – were able to promote peace under testing circumstances. What would such a strategy of preventive engagement look like for the United States today?
Watch videoFrancis Fukuyama, Oliver Nomellini Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Francis Fukuyama, Oliver Nomellini Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Michael Beschloss, Presidential Historian, NBC News; Contributor, PBS NewsHour
John J. Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
Chan Heng Chee, Ambassador-at-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Singapore; 2018 Marshall M. Bouton Asia Fellow
Ivo Daalder, President, Chicago Council on Global Affairs; James Lindsay, Senior Vice President, Council on Foreign Relations
Ian Bremmer, Author; President and Founder, Eurasia Group and GZERO Media
Tom Ginsburg, Leo Spitz Professor of International Law and Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar, The University of Chicago Law School; Aziz Huq, Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law, Mark Claster Mamolen Teaching Scholar, The University of Chicago Law School
Will Ruger, Vice President of Research and Policy, Charles Koch Institute; Dina Smeltz, Senior Fellow, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy; Trevor Thrall, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Associate Professor, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University
Bruce W. Jentleson, Professor of Political Science, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University; Paul B. Stares, General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention; Director,Center for Preventive Action,Council on Foreign Relations
Pedro Morenés, Ambassador of Spain to the United States
Ivo H. Daalder, President, Chicago Council on Global Affairs; Alina Polyakova, David M. Rubenstein Fellow—Foreign Policy Program, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution; Strobe Talbott, Distinguished Visitor, Buffett Institute for Global Studies; Distinguished Fellow in Residence, Brookings Institution
Jake Sullivan, Former Director of Policy Planning, US Department of State; Senior Fellow, Geoeconomics and Strategy Program, Carnegie Endowment
Elizabeth Economy, CV Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
David Bakradze, Ambassador of Georgia to the United States
