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“We’re at a moment in this period of great power competition, whether or not you want to call it a second Cold War, where the national security imperatives of dealing with a resurgent China and a disruptor in Russia require us to go back to the drawing board on our soft power instruments to respond to this new challenge.” — Daniel F. Runde
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DISTINGUISHED VISITING SPEAKER PROGRAM
In Person
Center for Strategic and International Studies Senior Vice President; William A. Schreyer Chair; Director, Project on Prosperity and Development and Author of “American Imperative: Reclaiming Global Leadership Through Soft Power”
with moderator
Executive Director, The Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)
Professor of History, Middle Tennessee State University
Belmont University, Barbara Massey Rogers Boardroom
5:00 p.m. CT – Registration, Networking
5:30 p.m. CT – Global Town Hall
6:30 p.m. CT – Book Signing
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Book Signing
Following the Global Town Hall, Mr. Runde will sign copies of his book, “American Imperative: Reclaiming Global Leadership Through Softpower.” Books will be available for purchase.
About the Book
It’s time for America to get back in the international leadership game.
What should our global strategy look like in an age of renewed great power competition? And what must America offer to a newly empowered developing world when we’re no longer the only major player?
In The American Imperative, international development expert Daniel Runde makes the case for building a new global consensus through vigorous internationalism and the judicious use of soft power. Runde maps out many of the steps that we need to take––primarily in the non-military sphere––to ensure an alliance of stable and secure, like-minded, self-reliant partner nations in order to prevent rising authoritarian powers such as China from running the world.
About Daniel F. Runde
Daniel F. Runde is a senior vice president, director of the Project on Prosperity and Development (PPD), and holds the William A. Schreyer Chair in Global Analysis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a leading global think tank.
Mr. Runde also served as the acting director for the CSIS Americas Program from 2020-2022. His work is oriented around U.S. leadership in building a more democratic and prosperous world. Among his many other contributions, Mr. Runde was as an architect of the BUILD Act, contributed to the reauthorization of the U.S. EXIM Bank in 2018, and was an architect of Prosper Africa, a U.S. government initiative to deepen the United States’ commercial and development engagement in Africa. He has been a leading voice on the role and future of the World Bank Group and U.S. leadership in the multilateral system.
Prior to CSIS, Mr. Runde held leadership roles at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the World Bank Group. Earlier in his career, Mr. Runde worked in commercial banking at Citibank in Argentina and in investment banking at Alex. Brown & Sons.
Mr. Runde was granted the Officer’s Cross in the Order of Isabel la Católica, a Spanish civil order. Currently, he serves on the board of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), the Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF), Spirit of America, and the Ashesi University Foundation. Mr. Runde is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bretton Woods Committee. He is also a columnist for The Hill and hosts a CSIS podcast series, Building the Future: Freedom, Prosperity, & Foreign Policy with Dan Runde.
Mr. Runde is also the author of the book The American Imperative: Reclaiming Global Leadership through Soft Power (Bombardier Books, 2022). He previously chaired two U.S. government advisory committees: the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid at USAID and the Sub-Saharan Africa Advisory Committee at the U.S. EXIM Bank. Fluent in Spanish, he graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College and holds a master’s in public policy from Harvard University.
Scroll down for Daniel Runde’s videos.
About Professor Amy Sayward
Amy L. Sayward is Executive Director of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) and professor of history at Middle Tennessee State University. She specializes in international history with a focus on the United Nations. Amy’s publications include The Birth of Development: How the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization, and World Health Organization Changed the World, 1945-1965 (Kent State University Press, 2006) and The United Nations and International History (Bloomsbury, forthcoming). She is also the proud recipient of the 2002 Stuart Bernath Article Prize for “Seeing Diplomacy through Bankers’ Eyes: The World Bank’s Diplomacy toward the Anglo-Iranian Oil Crisis and the Aswan High Dam.” Amy has a long tradition of service to SHAFR that has included work on program and prize committees and the Diplomatic History editorial board; she is deeply honored to have been chosen in 2015 to serve as the organization’s Executive Director.
Discussing “American Imperative: Reclaiming Global Leadership Through Softpower”
A Sample of Congressional Testimony Discussion by Daniel F. Runde
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