American Leadership Amidst Complexity and Crisis

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Notes

1. Available at https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/2015_national_security_strategy.pdf.

2. Available at https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/national_security_strategy.pdf.

3. Available at http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/nsc/nss/2006/.

4. Available at http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/63562.pdf.

5. This journal previously published a special “Recommendations for the Next President” during the 2008 election cycle—see http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfia20/6/3.

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John Gallagher

John Gallagher is President and CEO of the Institute for Global Engagement (IGE). Prior to IGE, he served for over two decades in the US military where, among other highlights, he served on the National Security Council of both the Bush and Obama Administrations, advised several top US military commanders from Afghanistan to the Pentagon, and taught political science at West Point. He is a co-editor and contributing author to Debating the War of Ideas (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009), a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and was recently selected as a 2016 Presidential Leadership Scholar.