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| Staff: | Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow for Europe Studies |
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July 1, 2001 - Present
The first book generated by this study group was The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century, by Charles A. Kupchan, the project director. The study group played a key role in providing feedback on the book during the drafting of the manuscript. The book addresses how the United States can manage peacefully the transition to a world of multiple centers of power.
The current phase of the study group focuses on understanding the sources of stable peace – how groupings of countries can form lasting partnerships and eliminate geopolitical competition. A book on this topic, along with several articles, will be the main published product. The book will examine a number of historical case studies of rapprochement, security communities and unions, exploring how zones of peace form and when and why they sometimes unravel. The book will draw policy conclusions relevant to preserving current zones of peace – such as the Atlantic community – as well as building new ones – such as in East Asia.
The Contending Paradigms Study Group is made possible through the generosity of John McCloy.
Publications
November 2002
At a time when American primacy appears to be stronger than ever, Council Fellow and Georgetown Professor Charles Kupchan argues that the end of Pax Americana is near. What will replace American supremacy, and how American leaders should prepare for this new era, are the central questions of this provocative new book.
Meetings
The End of the American Era and the Foreign Policy Challenges of the Future
Related Project: Study Group on Contending Visions of International Order
| Panelist: | John Shattuck, Chief Executive Officer, John F. Kennedy Library Foundation |
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| Speaker: | Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow and Director, Europe Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Associate Professor of International Relations, Georgetown University |
The End of the American Era and the Foreign Policy Challenges of the Future
Related Project: Study Group on Contending Visions of International Order
| Panelist: | Miles Kahler, Director, Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies and Rohr Professor of Pacific International Relations, University of California, San Diego |
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| Speaker: | Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow and Director, Europe Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Associate Professor of International Relations, Georgetown University |
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The End of the American Era and the Foreign Policy Challenges of the Future
Related Project: Study Group on Contending Visions of International Order
| Panelist: | George Lee Butler, General, USAF (Ret.) |
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| Speaker: | Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow and Director, Europe Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Associate Professor of International Relations, Georgetown University |
The End of the American Era and the Foreign Policy Challenges of the Future
Related Project: Study Group on Contending Visions of International Order
| Panelist: | Peter Schwartz, Chairman, Global Business Network |
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| Speaker: | Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow and Director, Europe Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Associate Professor of International Relations, Georgetown University |
The End of the American Era and the U.S. Foreign Policy Challenges of the Future
Related Project: Study Group on Contending Visions of International Order
| Panelist: | John E. Rielly, Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University |
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| Speaker: | Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow and Director, Europe Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Associate Professor of International Relations, Georgetown University; Author, The End of the American Era |
After Pax Americana
Related Project: Study Group on Contending Visions of International Order
| Panelist: | Stephen M. Walt, Harvard University |
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| Speaker: | Charles A. Kupchan |
Contact: David Stevens 202-518-3404 or dstevens@cfr.org
The End of the American Era
Related Project: Study Group on Contending Visions of International Order
| Presider: | Jay M. Vogelson, (Dallas Host); Shareholder - Director, Stutzman & Bromberg |
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| Panelist: | Rena M. Pederson, Editorial Page Editor, Dallas Morning News |
| Speaker: | Charles A. Kupchan, Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow and Director of Europe Studies, Council on Foreign Relations |
After Pax Americana (New York)
Related Project: Study Group on Contending Visions of International Order
| Panelist: | James C. Chace, Bard College |
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| Speaker: | Charles A. Kupchan, Project Director; Whitney H. Shepardson Senior Fellow and Director, Europe, Council on Foreign Relations |
Contact: David Stevens 202-518-3404 or dstevens@cfr.org
The End of the Unipolar Moment
Related Project: Study Group on Contending Visions of International Order
| Panelist: | James C. Chace, Bard College |
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| Speaker: | Charles A. Kupchan, Project Director; Whitney H. Shepardson Senior Fellow and Director, Europe, Council on Foreign Relations |
Contact: David Stevens 202-518-3404 or dstevens@cfr.org
The Grand Strategy and the Paradox of American Power
Related Project: Study Group on Contending Visions of International Order
| Panelist: | Stephen M. Walt, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard university |
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| Speaker: | Charles A. Kupchan |
Grand Strategy and the Paradox of American Power
Related Project: Study Group on Contending Visions of International Order
| Panelist: | James C. Chace, Bard College |
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| Speaker: | Charles A. Kupchan |
Hegemony or Multipolarity in the 21st Century?
Related Project: Study Group on Contending Visions of International Order
| Panelist: | Peter Tarnoff, President, International Advisory Corporation |
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| Speakers: | Lawrence J. Korb, Vice President, Maurice R. Greenberg Chair, and Director of Studies, Council on Foreign Relations |
| Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow and Director, Europe Studies, Council on Foreign Relations |
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Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel—a country of 7.1 million, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies— produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK? With the insights of geopolitical experts and investors, the authors examine this nation’s adversity-driven culture to answer this question and offer prescriptions for a global economy on the rebound.
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