The American Imperative: Reclaiming Global Leadership through Soft Power

Wednesday, March 8 | 4:30pm | Auditorium

Daniel Runde Strategist and Expert in Global Affairs

The American Imperative: Reclaiming Global Leadership through Soft Power is an urgent and timely book which argues that non-military soft power is the primary approach the U.S. must use now to maintain global dominance and order at a time when both are threatened by China and Russia. The book calls for: supporting broad based economic growth, supporting good governance and anti-corruption, long term training, differentiating our approaches in middle-income countries and fragile states, and stronger US leadership in the multilateral system. Runde aims to spark a national conversation about how and for what end we are going to use our non-military forms of our power overseas given the challenges and opportunities in front of us as a country.

About the Speaker

Daniel F. Runde is senior vice president and holds the William A. Schreyer Chair in Global Analysis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He has spent the last 20 years working on development and soft power, having chaired a government advisory board for foreign aid and for the EXIM Bank. He was an architect of the BUILD Act, served in the Bush Administration at USAID, then worked at the World Bank for a time.

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