
Thanks to everyone who attended the Foreign Policy Alliance’s first public event on
October 19, “Keeping the Peace Without Threatening War,” as well as our co-sponsor, the
Center for International Studies at the University of St. Thomas. Seventy people, including many students, listened to an insightful talk by
Dr. Lloyd J. Dumas (UT-Dallas) on the advantages of constructing national security policy around economic relationships rather than military force. Following the lecture, members of the audience engaged in a spirited Q&A with Professor Dumas for about an hour. You can follow up further on this innovative foreign policy approach by clicking
here to order his book,
The Peacekeeping Economy (Yale University Press, 2011)
.