Subject: Fwd: [staff] INVITATION: 6/15 Will 'America First' Lead to War w/ China?
From: "Meghan Valle" <[email-masked]>
To: "undisclosed-recipients:"
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 16:56:16 -0400

Members of the Boards,

I wanted to alert you to a great event happening at our office this
Thursday 6/15 from 6:30-8:00pm. If you are available and interested, we
would love to have you join!

Best,
Meghan

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From: Andrew Lavigne <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 11:25 AM
Subject: [staff] INVITATION: 6/15 Will 'America First' Lead to War w/ China?
To: "Washington, DC Chapter" <[email-masked]>

DC Trumans,

Join us this Thursday, *June 15th, from 6:30pm-8:00pm
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/graham-allison-book-event-tickets-34627952137>*
as we host *Graham Allison* at Truman HQ (1250 I St. NW, Suite 500) for a
members only dinner and discussion on US-China relations, authoritarianism
trends, and parallels between the global landscape leading to the First
World War and today's.

The first twenty (20) attendees to arrive will receive a *FREE
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/graham-allison-book-event-tickets-34627952137>*
copy of his most recent book, Destined for War: Can America and China
Escape Thucydides's Trap?
<https://www.amazon.com/Destined-War-America-Escape-Thucydidess-ebook/dp/B01IAS9FZY>

*Please RSVP
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/graham-allison-book-event-tickets-34627952137>*
if
you plan to attend so we can make sure we have an accurate headcount for
food and refreshments!

Best,

Andrew
__________________________

"If Hollywood were producing a movie about China and the US on a path to
war, central casting could find no better American lead than Donald Trump.
His insistence on “blaming China first” portends a blockbuster finale. Will
Washington and Beijing follow in the tragic footsteps of Britain and
Germany a century ago? Or will they find a way to avoid war as effectively
as the US did in crafting a Cold War strategy to meet the challenge posed
by the Soviet Union? In Destined for War, eminent Harvard scholar Graham
Allison explains why Thucydides’s Trap is the best lens for understanding
the most critical foreign policy issue of our time."

*Graham Allison* is an American political scientist and professor at the
John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Director of Harvard's
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Dr. Allison is a
leading analyst of U.S. national security and defense policy with a special
interest in nuclear weapons, terrorism, and decision-making. As Assistant
Secretary of Defense in the first Clinton Administration, Dr. Allison
received the Defense Department's highest civilian award, the Defense Medal
for Distinguished Public Service, for "reshaping relations with Russia,
Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan to reduce the former Soviet nuclear
arsenal." He is renowned for his contribution in the late 1960s and early
1970s to the bureaucratic analysis of decision making, especially during
times of crisis. His book Remaking Foreign Policy: The Organizational
Connection, co-written with Peter Szanton, was published in 1976 and had
some influence on the foreign policy of the administration of President
Jimmy Carter which took office in early 1977. Since the 1970s, Allison has
also been a leading analyst of U.S. national security and defense policy,
with a special interest in nuclear weapons and terrorism.

*--Andrew Lavigne*
Director of Special Projects
Truman Center for National Policy | Truman National Security Project

Office: 202.216.9723 Ext. 2112 <(202)%20216-9723>
Cell: 860.608.0423 <(860)%20608-0423>

www.TrumanCenter.org <http://www.trumancenter.org/> & www.TrumanProject.org

*Save the Date:* TruCon 2017 will be June 23-25 in Washington, DC.

-- 
*Meghan Valle*
Special Assistant to the President
Truman Center for National Policy | Truman National Security Project

Office: 202.216.9723 x2313
Cell: 419.360.0757
@TrumanProject | @TrumanCenter
www.trumanproject.org/ | www.trumancenter.org

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*Save the Date:* TruCon 2017 will be June 23-25 in Washington, DC