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Guiding Principles of U.S. Foreign Policy
Digital Video Conference with Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
March 05, 2007
Thessaloniki
Renowned scholar Walter Russell Mead offered his insight to a group of university students on the "Guiding Principles of U.S. Foreign Policy" and analyzed his theory of the rise of super-powers in the world. Mead focused on the principles of promoting of values such as democracy and open and free society, the rule of law, freedom of information, combating corruption, respect for private property. In a bold lecture, he announced to the students the five ways to "conquer" the world", or as he said the "secret plan for world domination." Those ways include being a capitalist, dynamic society, having a global economic approach, having a geo-strategic plan, "wielding the net" or using you system as a political tool, and promoting liberal institutions and values. Mead’s lecture caused major interest by students and scholars present at the lecture, springing a lively discussion afterwards and some food for thought.
For more information on Walter Russell Mead, please see the following links:
http://www.cfr.org/bios/3495/walter_russell_mead.html
http://www.cfr.org/content/bios/Mead%20NarBio%20-%20January%202007.pdf
Walter Russell Mead, is the author of award winning book Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World and is a regular contributor on international affairs to The Los Angeles Times and contributes articles and essays to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, and Worth. Walter Russell Mead is an expert on American Policy and as of 2003 was working as Project Director on Religion and Foreign Policy, Pew Forum.