Featuring: Stephen Flynn, Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations and Author, Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation

With George Packer, Staff Writer, The New Yorker, and author of The Assassin’s Gate: America in Iraq

Featuring: Jane Mayer Richard Slotkin Tony Lagouranis Stephen Holmes Karen Greenberg

Author, American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion Along with Neil MacFarquhar’s Review in the New York Times  

Featuring: Daniel Benjamin Max Boot Peter Bergen Patrick Clawson Steve Coll Steven Cook Noah Feldman Fawaz Gerges Karen Greenberg Stephen Holmes Toby Craig Jones Farhad Kazemi W. Patrick Lang Dafna Linzer Salameh Nematt Paul Pillar Barnett Rubin Steve Simon Craig Unger Lawrence Wright Schedule of Events 9:15-9:45 a.m. Opening Remarks 10:00-11:15 a.m. The Proxy War:…

Tara McKelvey is a Senior Editor at the American Prospect and a Contributing Editor to Marie Claire magazine, and her articles have appeared in those publications as well as The Nation, the New York Times Book Review and Slate. She is now working on a book about a civil suit against private military contractors accused…