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America: Our Next Chapter
America has always met the challenges it faced in building a better world. America and the world now face unprecedented, complex, combustible and interconnected challenges. President Obama will need a governing bipartisan coalition around a bipartisan consensus to meet these great challenges. Hagel shares with audiences:
· His perspective on what President Obama, working with Congress, must do to put America on a 21st-century path with a 21st-century frame of reference to structure 21st-century policies
· How our interconnected world requires transformational change in governance
· An in-depth review of U.S. foreign policy, including the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East
Evolving U.S. Role in the Global Community
A global financial crisis, emerging markets, wars, terrorism, endemic poverty, despair, pandemic health threats, energy and environmental issues all are forcing a global re-orientation unlike anything the world has ever seen. And at an unprecedented rate, we are witnessing historic geopolitical and economic shifts forming new geopolitical centers of gravity, with new international influences affecting America’s position in the world. Based on his knowledge of world affairs, Hagel shares with audiences:
· The latest status of global markets and the role of developing countries and emerging markets
· An overview of how the U.S. can lead the world to find and build on national common interests while ensuring that every country has a seat at the table
· How to design a reform agenda for sustainable growth
· Emerging challenges for a new global geopolitical and market order
Democracy Matters: Leading in Uncertain Times
America’s values were built by generations that believed in something greater than their own self-interests. Citizens are the fabric of society. In a democracy, it is the citizen who has the power to shape and be responsible for his or her government. Citizen involvement and awareness keep leaders accountable and institutions honest. It is the citizen who ensures democratic vitality and purpose. In the end it always should be about making a better world. Hagel shares with audiences:
· How the Obama administration and Congress must address the complex challenges facing America and seize this moment of opportunity
· Why a free press is indispensable to a free people
· How today’s complicated issues can be solved only with courageous, inclusive and imaginative leadership
· Why bipartisan consensus is the only way democracy will work
A Look at the Obama Administration, the 2010 Midterm Elections and Beyond
With two wars waging on the other side of the globe, a battered economy and a number of hot-button issues making their way through Congress, it is safe the say that we live in interesting political times. In this penetrating look at today's political climate, former Senator Chuck Hagel gives an up-to-the-minute analysis of the issues facing America in the upcoming midterm elections, exploring issues such as the Middle East, health-care and entitlement reform, the global economy, the environment and other issues of domestic and global importance. With an eye to the future, Hagel evaluates the Obama Administration and shows whether Obama’s reform efforts will help—or hinder—the efforts of both political parties as they look to grow their influence over the electorate ahead of the 2010 midterm elections.
About Chuck Hagel
In a highly partisan U.S. Senate, Chuck Hagel worked across party lines and forged lasting change on health care, the economy, energy, Social Security, climate change and issues of global significance.
Chuck Hagel is a true patriotic voice who has never shied away from speaking his mind and doing what is right in the face of doing what is politically expedient. A highly consequential member of the U.S. Senate respected by members of both parties for his ability to create strong alliances to get things done, Hagel built an impressive legislative resume that includes authoring major legislation of every major issue facing the country today including foreign policy, immigration, health care reform and taxation. The author of America: Our Next Chapter: Tough Questions, Straight Answers, Hagel outlines the challenges that America faces on the global stage and how it will take bipartisan solutions to move America forward in the 21st century. Prior to his service in the Senate, Hagel led a successful business career as the president of an investment banking firm and as the co-founder of a publicly traded cellular systems company. The recipient of two Purple Hearts for his military service during the Vietnam War, Hagel currently brings his honest, competent and accountable leadership to his positions as the chairman of the Atlantic Council, as a professor at Georgetown University and the University of Nebraska at Omaha and as a member of the Secretary of Defense’s Defense Policy Board.
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