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Global power revisited

"Change has come to America." After inspiring a message of hope and change, can the Obama administration seize this extraordinary opportunity to rebuild its relationship with the rest of the world? Five months into the tenure of the new administration, the latest Foresight publication, "Global power revisited" examines three global challenges that will be critical to this process:

• How to manage the economic and political fallout of the financial crisis?
• How to forge an integrated international security policy based on multilateral cooperation?
• How to reach a global deal on climate change while acknowledging the nexus with energy security and nuclear proliferation?

Bringing together leading American and non-American authors, including Adam Posen, Chandrashekhar Dasgupta, Carlos Pascual, and Volker Perthes, to examine each of these challenges and containing key data that indicates trends in the fields explored, the publication provides unique insights into the role of the United States in a changing world order.

Foresight USA symposium

Organised by the Alfred Herrhausen Society, the international Forum of Deutsche Bank, in partnership with Policy Network, this collection of compelling essays accompanies the Foresight USA symposium to be held in Washington DC on 18-19 June.

The event will provide a platform for policymakers, experts and leaders from Brazil, China, Europe, India, Russia and other parts of the world to discuss their expectations of the United States, and for American leaders to outline the visions and strategies of the new administration. The three critical challenges mentioned above will be discussed with the aim of identifying points in common. The key issue at the heart of the debates will be the role of the United States in a world that is increasingly multi-polar.

The symposium in Washington DC, which follows on from last year's event in Moscow, is organised in partnership with The Brookings Institution and forms part of a series of debates that will take place in different parts of the world as part of the "Foresight -forging common futures in a multi-polar world" initiative. The full agenda can be downloaded here.

www.foresightproject.net

Speakers

Foresight USA, Washington DC, 18-19 June

Lawrence Summers, Director, National Economic Council

Simon Schama, Professor of History, Columbia University

Yao Yang, Deputy Director, China Center for Economic Research

Strobe Talbott, President, The Brookings Institution

Peter Mandelson, UK Secretary of State for Business and President of Policy Network

Marcel Biato, Foreign Policy Adviser to the Brazilian Presidency

Bernd Mützelburg, German Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan

Anatoly Adamishin, Former Deputy Foreign Minister, Russian Federation

Luis Cuesta Civís, Spanish Secretary General for Defence Policy

David Lipton, Special Assistant for International Economic Affairs, The White House

Pratap Bhanu Mehta, President, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi

Wu Jianmin, President, China Foreign Affairs University and former Chinese Ambassador to the UN

Teresa Ribera, Spanish State Secretary for Climate Change

Carlos Pascual, Vice President, The Brookings Institution

José Serra, Governor of the State of São Paolo

Sergei Karaganov, Chairman, Russian Council on Foreign and Defense Policy

Meera Shankar, Indian Ambassador to the US