Jobs, Investment, and Rebuilding America: US Security Policy After Syria
Channel: New America
Date: 14/11/2013

Jobs, Investment, and Rebuilding America
An Economic and National Security Agenda

Session Two: US Security Policy After Syria

While Congress fiddles, America burns. Jobs remain scarce, foreclosures rampant, mortgages under water, pensions fragile, wages too low. Our infrastructure remains in decay. And we are still not meeting the economic or national security challenges that we have inherited from a decade of frustrating global failures. 

On Tuesday, November 12, Economists for Peace and Security and the Economic Growth Program of the New America Foundation present a symposium on jobs, investment, and security - and why they should trump today's disastrous preoccupations with budget balance, spending cuts, sequestration, and the debt ceiling.
 
The symposium's keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Jason Furman, Chair, Council of Economic Advisers. The conversation will also feature panel discussions with many of America's most distinguished policy economists, journalists, and security specialists.

Chair
Richard Kaufman
Bethesda Research Institute

The Implications of the Syrian Bargain 
Heather Hurlburt
Senior Advisor, National Security Network

An Unaffordable Defense Budget 
Winslow Wheeler
Director, Straus Military Reform Project, Independent Institute

Lessons for Future Diplomacy
Peter Galbraith
Senior Diplomatic Fellow, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

US Grand Strategy Now
Carl Conetta
Director, Project on Defense Alternatives

The Uses of the Military in the World Now
Colonel Douglas MacGregor
Vice President, Burke-Macgregor

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