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NCAFP Visit to Taipei, Beijing, Seoul, and Tokyo, October 13–27, 2015

The National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) made its annual fact-finding visit to Taipei, Beijing, Seoul, and Tokyo from October 13–27 to discuss the current troubled security environment in East Asia with officials, scholars, and think tanks. This report highlights the findings of this mission and puts forth a number of policy recommendations for official consideration.

Asia’s Great Powers and Regional Stability: A New Trilateral Dynamic Between the United States, China, and Japan

The Forum on Asia-Pacific Security (FAPS) of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) hosted two days of Track 1.5 meetings in Beijing from October 19–20, 2015. This report is not so much an effort to summarize the rich discussion at the trilateral meeting, as it is an effort to analyze the complex and fragile nature of trilateral relations today and to offer suggestions to all three sides for improvement in their ties with each other. The meeting focused on the interactions between and among the bilateral relationships that comprise this trilateral and the policy agenda for cooperation in ensuring stability in the Asia Pacific during this time of geostrategic change.

Foreign Policy and the Intellectual

EDITOR'S NOTE To commemorate the seminal contributions made by Professor Morgenthau to the theory and the practice of American foreign policy, the National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) presents the Hans J. Morgenthau Memorial Award each year. The person to be so honored is one whose intellectual attainments and/or practical contributions to U.S. foreign policy have been judged so exemplary in the tradition of Professor Morgenthau as to merit this singular award.In 1983, Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., dean of American historians, addressed a stellar National Committee audience on the occasion of the NCAFP's presentation of the third Hans J. Morgenthau Memorial Award to Dr. Henry A. Kissinger. Professor Schlesinger's topic, “Foreign Policy and the Intellectual,” could not be more relevant today, with President Barack Obama now in the White House.

Introduction to Special Issue: Cybersecurity, Sovereignty, and U.S. Foreign Policy

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes For a deeper insight into the risks and vulnerabilities at hand, see NCAFP Cybersecurity and U.S. Foreign Policy Roundtable Report (2013), http://www.ncafp.org/ncafp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/NCAFP-Cyber-Roundtable_Cybersecurity-Challenge-Response_Nov6.131.pdf. See also J. Healey and K. Grindal, A Fierce Domain: Conflict in Cyberspace, 1986–2012 (Arlington, VA: Cyber Conflict Studies Association, 2013). See, for example, C. Kavanagh and D. Stauffacher, “A Role for Civil Society?: ICTs, Norms and CBMs in the Context of International Security,” ICT4Peace, Geneva (2014), http://ict4peace.org/new-ict4peace-publication-a-role-for-civil-society-in-cybersecurity-affairs/. Additional informationNotes on contributorsCamino KavanaghMs. Camino Kavanagh is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of War Studies, King's College London, where her focus is on war, information technologies, and transformation of strategic affairs. She is a senior advisor to the National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP), where she has played a key role in shaping the Committee's annual roundtable series on cybersecurity and U.S. foreign policy, and senior advisor to the Geneva-based ICT4Peace Foundation for whom she regularly writes policy briefs and reports on different issues pertaining to ICTs in the context of international and regional security. Camino is also a senior non-resident fellow at New York University's Center for International Cooperation (CIC) where her focus has been on the impact of transnational threats such as organized crime and extremism on security, governance, and development; and she is an advisory board member of the recently established Global Initiative on Transnational Organized Crime. Prior to this, she worked with various international organizations in peacekeeping and post-conflict reform efforts, including UN peacekeeping operations in Africa and Central America, and has served as advisor to different governments in Central America and Southeast Asia.

Foreign Policy in the Framework of an Open-Society Bloc

EDITOR'S NOTE On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP), we thought it appropriate to reprint Professor John H. Herz's 1982 article in whi...

Address by Ambassador George F. Kennan upon Receiving the First George F. Kennan Award for Distinguished Public Service from the National Committee on American Foreign Policy

EDITOR'S NOTE On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP), we thought it appropriate to reprint George F. Kennan's address from Vol. 16, No. 6 (1994) of American Foreign Policy Interests. This address was given in New York, NY, on October 17, 1994.

Cybersecurity, U.S. Foreign Policy, and a Changing Landscape: A New Generation Speaks Out

ABSTRACT In the second roundtable meeting on cybersecurity and U.S. foreign policy, hosted by the National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP), discussions focused on three core topics and their implications for U.S. policy and strategy: (i) Internet governance and the outcome of the 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT)—which confirmed a desire by many countries to ensure greater government involvement in this area; (ii) the report of the UN Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) in which consensus was reached on the applicability of existing international norms and principles for cyberspace; and (iii) the strategic and domestic implications of the Edward Snowden revelations and other forms of electronic surveillance and espionage. Participants assessed these developments against the changing character of warfare and broader shifts in the global strategic environment.

Transatlantic Relations: The Crisis

ABSTRACT In a conference on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), sponsored by the National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP), a far-ranging discussion covered the following topics: mobilizing public support in the United States for NATO; lessons to be drawn from the Libyan War; the troubled relationship between NATO and Russia; underlying tensions between the United States and Europe that may weaken NATO; global versus regional perspectives on security; the meaning of Article 5 of the Washington Treaty, especially as it relates to cyberattacks and extension of security guarantees to the Baltic states and possible future members like Georgia and Ukraine; Turkey and the European Union; the budgetary crisis and NATO; and challenges to democracy in the current global crisis.

The National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) in Pictures

The National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) in Pictures

The National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) in Pictures

The National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) in Pictures

The National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) in Pictures

The National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) in Pictures

The National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) in Pictures

The National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) in Pictures

The National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) in Pictures

The National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) in Pictures

The Greater Middle East: Is Proliferation Inevitable?

Abstract The report that follows is a summary of a closed-door, off-the-record roundtable that was held in New York City on April 29, 2009. Just as the article begins with a letter from the president of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP), it closes with a postscript written in November 2009 by the senior fellow of the NCAFP's project on The Middle East: Islamic Law and Peace. Both testify to the panelists' commitments to answering the overarching question posed in the title of the roundtable and to identifying Iran's purpose in enriching its uranium.

The National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) in Pictures

The National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) in Pictures

The National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) in Pictures

The National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) in Pictures

The National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) in Pictures

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The National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) at Thirty-Five

The National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) at Thirty-Five

The National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) in Pictures

The National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) in Pictures

The National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) in Pictures

The National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) in Pictures