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| Staff: | Stephen E. Flynn, Ira A. Lipman Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and National Security Studies |
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January 2005 - Present
Prompted by the critical security challenges facing our country, and the growing need to fully engage the private sector in meeting these challenges, the Council is sponsoring the Roundtable Series on the Role of the Private Sector in Homeland Security. The series is directed by Dr. Stephen Flynn, the Council's Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies. The aim of the Roundtable is to vigorously address some of the pressing issues highlighted in Flynn's recently released book, America the Vulnerable, How Our Government is Failing to Protect Us from Terrorism.
The design of the initiative is a sustained dialogue between homeland security experts and a small high-level group of decision makers from the private sector. Bringing these two groups together, the Council hopes to promote a forum for frank discussion leading to valuable insights into difficult security issues and the pursuit of solutions in the context of our present political and economic environment.
Publications
March 2006
Council Special Report No. 13
The central finding of this report is that federal government has had a naďve view of what the market is able to do when left largely on its own to protect critical infrastructure.
Meetings
Roundtable Series on the Role of the Private Sector in Homeland Security: Dangerous Seas - The Role of the U.S. Coast Guard in Building a Safer Marine Environment
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| Presider: | Stephen E. Flynn, Ira A. Lipman Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Robert J. Papp Jr., Commander of the Coast Guard Atlantic Area, U.S. Coast Guard |
Roundtable Series on the Role of the Private Sector in Homeland Security: The U.S.-Canada Border-Prospects for Cooperation and Collaboration
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| Presider: | Stephen E. Flynn, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speakers: | Scott G. Borgerson, International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations |
| Peter Neffenger, Rear Admiral, Incoming Ninth District Commander, United States Coast Guard |
Roundtable Series on the Role of the Private Sector in Homeland Security: Homeland Security Handoff-The Department of Homeland Security and Transition 2009
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| Presider: | Stephen E. Flynn, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Randy Beardsworth, Principal, Olive, Edwards, & Cooper, LLC, Former Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security |
Roundtable Series on the Role of the Private Sector in Homeland Security: America the Resilient
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| Speaker: | Stephen E. Flynn, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations |
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Roundtable Series on the Role of the Private Sector in Homeland Security: Homeland Security and the Next Administration - A View from Capitol Hill
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| Presider: | Stephen E. Flynn, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Jessica Herrera-Flanigan, Staff Director and General Counsel, House Select Committee on Homeland Security |
Roundtable Series on the Role of the Private Sector in Homeland Security: Disaster Preparedness: How Vulnerable Are We? A Conversation with Admiral Harvey Johnson
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| Presider: | Stephen E. Flynn, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Harvey E. Johnson, Jr., USCG, Deputy Administrator and Chief Operating Officer, Federal Emergency Management Agency |
Roundtable Series on the Role of the Private Sector in Homeland Security: The Next Attack - The State of the Terrorist Threat to the U.S. Homeland
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| Presider: | Stephen E. Flynn, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Henry Crumpton, Distinguished Fellow, East-West Institute, Former Ambassador-at-Large for Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State |
Roundtable Series on the Role of the Private Sector in Homeland Security: Shrinking the Targets
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| Presider: | Stephen E. Flynn, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, The Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Charles Perrow, Yale University |
Roundtable Series on the Role of the Private Sector in Homeland Security: Terrorism and the Homegrown Threat
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| Presider: | Stephen E. Flynn, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, The Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speakers: | Michael L. Alexander, Staff Director, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs |
| Brandon Milhorn, Staff Director, Chief Counsel, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs |
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Roundtable Series on the Role of the Private Sector in Homeland Security: Edge of Disaster
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| Speaker: | Stephen E. Flynn, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations |
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Roundtable Series on the Role of the Private Sector in Homeland Security: Critical Infrastructure Protection
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| Presider: | Stephen E. Flynn, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speakers: | Robert B. Stephan, Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection, U.S. Department of Homeland Security |
| Alfonso Martinez-Fonts Jr., Assistant Secretary for the Private Sector, U.S. Department of Homeland Security |
Roundtable Series on the Role of the Private Sector in Homeland Security: Disaster Response
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| Presider: | Stephen E. Flynn, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Robert Block, Homeland Security Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal |
Roundtable Series on the Role of the Private Sector in Homeland Security: Special Briefing on the Private Sector and the Global War on Terror
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| Speaker: | Henry Crumpton, Coordinator for Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State |
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| Presider: | Stephen E. Flynn |
Roundtable Series on the Role of the Private Sector in Homeland Security: Working Session on the Draft Special Report
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| Presider: | Stephen E. Flynn |
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Roundtable Series on the Role of the Private Sector in Homeland Security: Energy Security Working Group
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| Speaker: | Daniel H. Yergin |
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| Presider: | Stephen E. Flynn |
Roundtable Series on the Role of the Private Sector in Homeland Security: Emergency Preparedness Working Group
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| Speaker: | Joseph Pfeifer, Fire Department of New York |
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| Presider: | Stephen E. Flynn |
News Releases
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