Blind Spot: America's Response to Radicalism in the Middle East

The Aspen Strategy Group's Policy Books is an annual series of pieces written by contemporary thought leaders on the most pressing U.S. foreign policy and national security issues. This edition is a collection of papers commissioned for the 2015 Aspen Strategy Group Summer Workshop, in Aspen, Colorado. The summer workshop convened a nonpartisan group of foreign policy experts, academics, journalists, and business leaders. The group's policy discussions were guided by the papers in this volume, which evaluate the roots of extremism, the rise of the Islamic State, and the costs and risks associated with intensifying U.S. engagement in Iraq and Syria. CONTENT: The Ninth Annual Ernest May Memorial Lecture: Idealism of What Works. By Philip Zelikow CHAPTER 1: US Trade Policy Toward Asia: Strategic Questions. By Michael Froman CHAPTER 2: Restoring the Case for Free Trade. By Stephen E. Biegun CHAPTER 3: Real News, Fake News: The Assault on Truth, the Free Press, and the Liberal Order. By Carla Anne Robbins CHAPTER 4: Short of War: Cyber Conflict and the Corrosion of International Order. By David E. Sanger CHAPTER 5: An Even Flatter World: How Technology Is Remaking the World Order. By Christopher Kirchhoff CHAPTER 6: An Irresistible Force Meets a Moveable Object: The Technology Tsunami and the Liberal World Order. By Richard Danzig CHAPTER 7: Maintaining America’s Lead in Creating and Applying New Technology. By Deutch and Condoleezza Rice CHAPTER 8: China’s Economic March: Will It Undermine the Liberal World Order? By Anja Manuel CHAPTER 9: China and the Liberal World Order. By David Shambaugh CHAPTER 10: More Tooth, Less Tail: Getting Beyond NATO’s 2 Percent Rule. By John Dowdy CHAPTER 11: NATO and Its Authoritarian Member States. By Dov S. Zakheim CHAPTER 12: Russia’s Campaign Against American Democracy: Toward a Strategy for Defending Against, Countering, and Ultimately Deterring Future Attacks. By Michèle A. Flournoy CHAPTER 13: Modernizing the International System: What Needs to Change? By Stephen Hadley CHAPTER 14: Modernizing the Liberal Order: What Needs Fixing? By Madeleine K. Albright