Report Release: Diplomacy in a Time of Scarcity
| Date | Thursday, October 25 |
| Time | 10:00 - 11:30am |
| Location | Stimson |
The American Academy of Diplomacy, the Una Chapman Cox Foundation, and Stimson
Release a New Report
"Diplomacy in a Time of Scarcity"
Panelists
Ambassador Thomas Pickering
Chair of the Advisory Group
Ambassador Tom Boyatt
Project Chairman
Ellen Laipson
President, Stimson
Ambassador Ronald Neumann
President, American Academy of Diplomacy
Russell Rumbaugh
Project Director
Diplomacy in a Time of Scarcity Launch from Stimson Center on Vimeo.
Today's fiscal crisis threatens to plummet US diplomacy and development back
into crisis with ill-timed budget cuts.
In response to a brewing crisis in diplomatic readiness four years ago, the
American Academy of Diplomacy and Stimson released a report, "A Foreign Affairs
Budget for the Future," which provided an analytical basis for how many and
what kinds of foreign policy personnel the United States needed.
Many of the report's goals were accomplished in the following years through the
State Department's Diplomacy 3.0 initiative-but not all. And in that time
the United States' fiscal situation fundamentally changed, even as the world
and the US's strategic situation also continued changing.
The new report reviews what has happened in the last few years, and relooks at
where we stand in having the right number and kind of foreign policy
personnel. It directly confronts the new crisis of declining resources
facing our foreign policy personnel, and takes a hard look at the available
options.
To publicly release the report, its leaders will provide a panel discussion of
the report's research, conclusions, and recommendations followed by a question and
answer session.
Supported by the Una Chapman Cox Foundation