Speaker: Dr. Michael Kraig, Director of Policy Analysis and Dialogue of The Stanley Foundation
Where: Orangérie, College at Florham Library
When: February 19, 2009
10 – 11:30AM and 2 – 3:30PM

The US Role in a Changing Global Order
In order for the United States to meet today’s pressing global challenges, it will require leadership through broad engagement with a large number of nations, international organizations, and nonstate actors. Going it alone is simply not an option, especially in a highly interconnected world of complex problems and new players on the global scene like Brazil, China, India, Turkey, and others. There are no easy answers, but progress can be made in this diverse, highly dynamic world through effective cooperation. Please join Michael Kraig, director of Policy Analysis and Dialogue at the Stanley Foundation, to discuss these important considerations for the United States in today’s changing global order. 

About the Speaker:
Dr. Michael Kraig is director of Policy Analysis and Dialogue at the Stanley Foundation in Muscatine, Iowa. In this role, he manages the foundation’s work in six major initiative areas: United Nations and Global Institutions; US and Global Security; US and Asian Security; US and Middle East Security; Rising Powers; and Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and Disarmament. These ongoing initiatives are centered on widening the policy debate in the United States and within foreign capitals by discussing multilateral, cooperative policy options that could make both the United States and the world more prosperous and secure. Kraig has a Ph.D. in political science from the University at Buffalo, New York, with a concentration in international relations, US foreign policy, and comparative politics.
The Stanley Foundation is a nonpartisan, private operating foundation focusing primarily on peace and security issues and advocating principled multilateralism.  The foundation’s concept of principled multilateralism means working respectfully across differences to create fair, just, and lasting solutions. The Stanley Foundation brings fresh voices and original ideas to debates on global and regional problems. The foundation seeks a secure peace with freedom and justice, built on world citizenship and effective global governance.