I would like to thank everyone who agreed to contribute to my research project for the Panetta Institute, and who commented on my previous
diary.
The quality and thoughtfulness of your responses were great (as I expected). Still, I'd like to get a larger number of responses from the community, so I'm pimping the diary entry again.
The question I posed yesterday was:
Question 1: What do you think are the 3 - 5 most vital national security/foreign policy issues that the U.S. faces? Be as specific as possible.
Please check it out and get involved, if the mood strikes you! I hope to compile preliminary results and post a summary at some point tomorrow.
More info below the fold.
Some more info on what I'm doing and why I'm doing it...
In case you missed the first diary post, the goals of this project are to:
- Articulate a set of progressive core values that should be used to guide policy-making.
- Define a coherent frame based on those core values in order to effectively define and talk about issues of national security/foreign policy.
- Develop policy positions that are based on those core values.
- Devise a communication plan for talking about those policy positions within the identified frame.
I suppose it would have been much easier to just come up with my own set of security issues and core values (based on what I think and on what the experts say), and then try to frame them effectively. But I am much more interested in developing
collaborative, open, and transparent policy development processes. I hope to build on this work throughout my graduate studies, and possibly use it as a foundation for my doctoral studies (if I get into the program at Georgetown - keep your fingers crossed for me). I feel that our policy decision-making should be based on what works and guided by a set of core progressive values. If that sounds even remotely interesting to you, come on over and help me out!