The Next American Century - How The U.S. Can Thrive As Other Powers Rise

The New Republic

January 5, 2009
The New New Deal Goes Global
Nina explains how to use the economic crisis to strengthen international institutions.

GOOD

January 13, 2009
WHO Can Stop an Epidemic
Nina discusses why the WHO needs more support from the next administration.

ThinkProgress

September 29, 2008
LoD Squad
Nina discusses several problems with John McCain's League of Democracies proposal.

Far Eastern Economic Review

September 12, 2008
Getting China Right
Nina and Michael Schiffer discuss next steps for U.S.-China relations for the next administration.

The Washington Quarterly

Autumn 2008
Strateigic Collaboration
An insight into the changing dynamics of international relations with the resurgence of China, India and Russia and a suggestion in how the next American President should react to this change by expanding the G-8 to the G-13, among other ideas.

San Francisco Chronicle

August 26, 2008
The axis of illusion
An analysis of the relationship between Russia and China concluding that by misunderstanding their relationship as 'new partners in an autocrat's axis' the West risks binding these resurgent superpowers together and endangering U.S. national security.

Think Progress

August 20, 2008
US-China Relations: The Urgency Of Shared Challenges
A pragmatic response to the rising power of China, emphasizing U.S. and Chinese interdependence and a need for cooperation on issues such as climate change. The report highlights the need to reestablish U.S. moral authority and leadership on a global level in order to increase U.S. leverage in the bilateral relationship.

A Progressive Strategy Towards China

August 13, 2008
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In this report the authors suggest that the US should move beyond the strategy of engaging China but "hedging" that US governments have followed for some 30 years. They propose the next administration instead take a "risk management" strategy that has three broad elements: embed China in international norms and institutions, use multilateral diplomacy to pressure China more effectively, and get things in order at home.

The Big Think

June 6, 2008
Big Think, click here for Videos
Nina responds to several questions on foreign policy ranging from her views on Iran and China to American imperial decline.

The San Diego Union Tribune

June 6, 2008
US needs Russia's help on weapons
An analysis of how Senator John McCain's Cold War-redux framework in regard to Russia ignore the importance of cooperating with Russia to avoid a nuclear terrorist incident in the United States.

The Stanley Foundation Working Group on Major Powers

May 2008
The United States, Pivotal Powers and the New Global Reality
Conference report available here.

Fox News Interview

April 2008
China Olympic Terror Plot
Nina responds to questions relating to multiple alleged terror plots to attack the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and the protests of the Chinese.

Review: New York Review of Books, April 17 Issue:

"Hachigian and Sutphen argue persuasively that all of these [European] powers see their interest as lying in a cooperative world system rather than a contest for primacy, and that the US's interest lies in seeking 'strategic collaboration' with them, rather than attempting to 'contain' them in a vain attempt to perpetuate its own 'primacy.'… Let us hope that theirs is the voice of the future, for if it is, there is hope." For the full review, click here.

Hear the authors discuss the book with Leonard Lopate on WNYC.

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Hear Nina discuss the book with Terence McNally on KPCC.

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CSPAN - Book TV

See the authors in a presentation and discussion at Zocalo in Los Angeles, CA.

Our Blog

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KPCC, Southern California
public radio

Listen to the authors during their recent interview on KPCC, Southern California public radio.

Center for American Progress

To see our recent presentation at the Center for American Progress, click here.

Authors @ Google

See the authors presentation on January 28 as part of the Google book series (San Francisco). Watch Now

Pod Cast: Foreign Policy Experts Ponder Geopolitical Future

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All Things Considered, January 11
Foreign policy experts Nina Hachigian and Mona Sutphen got their starts in the Clinton administration. In The Next American Century, they lay out some dos and don'ts for America moving forward. Michele Norris talks with the authors about their book. Click here for more.

Bill Maher Show

"Nina was a guest on the Bill Maher show on Feb. 15. See the 6 video clips on YouTube."

Embrace China. The burgeoning powerhouse often is painted as a threat to the U.S. It should be viewed more as a partner.

Between the Beijing Olympics and the U.S. presidential race, we are going to hear a lot about China in the coming year. In our nation's capital, and on the campaign trail, policymakers and politicians tend to paint China as a threat, suggesting that its economic growth means the U.S. is falling behind or that its strength is inherently dangerous.

Americans don't necessarily see it that way. A recent Zogby poll revealed that 52% of the American public holds a favorable impression of China. But only 35% of congressional staffers do. And 86% of those staffers think, wrongly, that Americans have a negative view of China.

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