Photo: #A Syrian pro-government supporter holds upa sign as a convoy carrying Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov heads towards the presidential palace in Damascus on February 7, 2012. Moscow's top diplomat was holding talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after being cheered on his arrival in Damascus by thousands of regime supporters who took to the streets to 'thank' Russia, according to state media, for vetoing along with China a UN Security Council resolution condemning the Assad regime's crackdown on protesters.
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A Syrian pro-government supporter holds upa sign as a convoy carrying Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov heads towards the presidential palace in Damascus on February 7, 2012. Moscow's top diplomat was holding talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after being cheered on his arrival in Damascus by thousands of regime supporters who took to the streets to 'thank' Russia, according to state media, for vetoing along with China a UN Security Council resolution condemning the Assad regime's crackdown on protesters. (Louai Beshara/AFP/Getty Images)

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Aspen Ideas Festival 2012

The 2012 Ideas Festival gathered scientists, artists, politicians, historians, educators, activists, and other great thinkers for a week this summer.

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Aspen Ideas Festival 2012

Aspen Ideas Festival: future US foreign policy


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Three experienced diplomats and foreign policy experts discuss the options for U.S. policy around the world, in what the Aspen Ideas Festival moderator dubbed "the tryouts for Secretary of State."

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  • Nicholas Burns: Professor of diplomacy and international politics at Harvard University. Former undersecretary of state for political affairs. US ambassador to NATO 2001-2005 and to Greece 1997-2001. State Department spokesman 1995-1997. Worked on the National Security Council as senior director for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia under President Bill Clinton and senior director for Soviet affairs under President George H.W. Bush.
  • Robert Kagan: Senior fellow in foreign policy at Brookings Institution, and author of several books including "The World America Made." Kagan serves as a member of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's foreign affairs policy board and is co-chairman of the bipartisan Working Group on Egypt.
  • James Steinberg: Dean of the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, and professor of Social Science, International Affairs, and Law. Former deputy secretary of state under Secretary Hillary Clinton. Deputy national security advisor to President Bill Clinton 1996-2000. Former director of the State Department's policy planning staff and deputy assistant secretary for analysis in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. Former staff to the Senate Armed Services Committee.
  • Jeffrey Goldberg: Moderator. National correspondent of The Atlantic. Former Middle East correspondent for The New Yorker and correspondent for The New York Times Magazine. Author of "The Prisoners."

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