Security in Transition: National Security Challenges Facing the Next President
Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library, September 21-23, 2016
Live Streamed at whitehousetransitionproject.org
UT Austin Campus Partnership
Clements Center for National Security
Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library
Strauss Center for International Security and Law
UT Center for Politics and Governance
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Event Schedule
Keynote Address: James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence
SESSION 1: CONFERENCE INTRODUCTION AND THE TRANSITION FROM GEORGE W. BUSH TO BARACK OBAMA – Peter Feaver Interviews and Stephen Hadley Introduces: Paul D. Miller, Associate Director of the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas; Terry Sullivan, Executive Director, White House Transition Project; Martha Joynt Kumar, Director, White House Transition Project. Peter D. Feaver interviews Stephen J. Hadley, National Security Advisor, President George W. Bush and Peter Feaver, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Duke University and Special Advisor for Strategic Planning and Institutional Reform,2005-2007, National Security Council.
SESSION 2: PRESIDENTIAL LEARNING AND THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY – Moderator Stephen B. Slick, Director, Intelligence Studies Project, University of Texas, ; John L. Helgerson, historian and former Inspector General, Central Intelligence Agency; James Clapper, Director, Office of National Intelligence; John E. McLaughlin, former Acting Director and Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency.
SESSION 3: MANAGING DIPLOMACY – Moderator William C. Inboden, Executive Director, Clements Center for National Security, Associate Professor LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas; Philip D. Zelikow, Counselor to the Department of State and deputy to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, 2005-2007; James B. Sternberg, University Professor, Social Science, International Affairs, and Law, Maxwell School School of Citizenship ad Public Affairs at Syracuse University; John D. Negroponte, Deputy Secretary of State, 2007-2009, and Director of National Intelligence, 2005-2007.
SESSION 4: TRANSFER OF POWER – Martha Joynt Kumar, Director, White House Transition Project, interviews Joshua B. Bolten, Chief of Staff, President George W. Bush, 2006-2009.
SESSION 5: A COMMANDING PRESENCE – Moderator Christine Abizaid, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia; Peter Feaver, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Duke University; General Norton A. Schwartz, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, 2008-2012 and member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Julieanne Smith, Deputy National Security Advisor for Vice President Joseph Biden; General Philip M. Breedlove, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 2013-2016.
SESSION 6: NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL – Moderator Paul D. Miller, Associate Director of the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas; Joshua B. Bolten, Chief of Staff, President George W. Bush, 2006-2009;Peter Feaver, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Duke University; Meghan L. O’Sullivan, Professor of the Practice of International Affairs and Director of the Geopolitics of Energy Project, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan, 2005-2007; Julie Smith, Deputy National Security Advisor for Vice President Joseph Biden.
Participants:
Bob Inman
Former Director of the National Security Agency and former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Derek Chollet
former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
Farah Pandith
former Special Representative to Muslim Communities for the Department of State, and former Director for Middle East Initiatives at the National Security Council
James Clapper
Director of National Intelligence
Jim Jeffrey
former Deputy National Security Advisor and former Ambassador to Iraq, Turkey, and Albania
Jim Steinberg
former Deputy Secretary of State and former Deputy National Security Advisor
John Helgerson
former CIA Inspector General and former Chairman of the National Intelligence Council
John McLaughlin
former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
John Negroponte
former Deputy Secretary of State and former Director of National Intelligence
Josh Bolten
former White House Chief of Staff
Julianne Smith
former Deputy National Security Advisor to the Vice President
Kim Kagan
Founder and President of the Institute for the Study of War
Kristen Silverberg
former Ambassador to the European Union and former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
Kurt Campbell
former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Kurt Volker
former U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs
Meghan O’Sullivan
former Special Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor
Michael Green
former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council
Nick Rasmussen
Director of the National Counterterrorism Center and former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council
Norton Schwartz
former Chief of Staff of the Air Force
Peter Feaver
former Special Advisor for Strategic Planning at the National Security Council
Philip Breedlove
former Commander of U.S. European Command and former Supreme Allied Commander Europe
Philip Zelikow
former Counselor, Department of State
Steve Hadley
former National Security Advisor
William McRaven
Chancellor of the University of Texas System and former Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command