The Princeton Project on National Security released its first paper last Wednesday, "U.S. National Security Strategy: Lenses and Landmarks," by Richard Betts, the director of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University.
The Wilson School unveiled The Princeton Project on National Security in May in an ambitious attempt to develop a longterm national security strategy for the United States.
"We have over 200 of the leading thinkers in foreign policy involved with the project," Wilson School Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter '80 said. "It is a genuinely bipartisan effort. We've got real credibility."
"Lenses and Landmarks" examines the last 60 years of U.S. foreign policy and attempts to glean the most effective and useful strategies from them.
It also explores the phenomena in which parties can agree on general policy goals, but not the method by which to accomplish those goals, according to the Wilson School website.
The project was first conceptualized when Slaughter observed that the United States' Cold War era foreign policy plan wasn't providing a solution for the safety of the country, she said.
In addition to the hundreds of widely-recognized scholars within the United States, the project consults some of the top foreign policy leaders worldwide.
Though the project's goal is to create a new foreign policy, it focuses heavily on learning from the past.
"One critical mistake for intellectuals as well as politicians to avoid will be the temptation to believe that new problems make old ideas irrelevant and that the coming generation has nothing to learn from how we handled national security problems of the past," Betts said.
The Princeton Project could have repercussions on the international stage. However, it could bring many new opportunities to campus and the Wilson School.
"This is a chance for us to get our faculty and MPA's [Master in Public Affairs] involved with some of greatest foreign policy thinkers in decades, as well as with some of our most distinguished alumni," Slaughter said.
She stressed the necessity of undertaking this initiative. "We're in a period like the late 1940s, with no bipartisan consensus. One threat, different responses. That is why this project is so important," Slaughter said. "This is the chance for Princeton to play the role it ought to play."
The project is not exclusive to faculty or Wilson School majors. Student interested in learning about or helping with The Princeton Project can visit its website at www.wws.princeton.edu/ppns/.
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