"Aspen Policy Books is a series of annual publications that address the United States’ most formidable and pressing national security and foreign policy challenges. This edition is a collection of papers commissioned for the 2018 Aspen Strategy Group Summer Workshop, a bipartisan meeting of national security experts, academics, private sector leaders, and technologists. The introduction by Nicholas Burns, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., and Condoleezza Rice provides an overview of technology’s impact on key pillars of American power and offers practical recommendations to meet the daunting challenges this technological era imposes. The chapters in this volume evaluate the disruptive nature of technological change on the U.S. military, economic power, and democratic governance. They highlight possible avenues for U.S. defense modernization, the impact of disinformation tactics and hybrid warfare on democratic institutions, and the need for a reinvigorated innovation triangle comprised of the U.S. government, academia, and private corporations."

Technology and National Security: Maintaining America's Edge

Condoleezza Rice

WALTER ISAACSON

Jared Cohen

Diana Farrell

Edward Alden

Nicholas Burns

Jack Clark

John Deutch

John Dowdy

Chandru Krishnamurthy

Katherine Mansted

Jason Matheny

Penny Pritzker

Eric Rosenbach

Laura Rosenberger

Ash, Carter

Joseph S. Nye.Jr.

The Aspen Institute

This guide is meant for those in the public and private sectors who realize that the incubation of new enterprises can no longer be left to chance. Its purpose is to explain how to design and implement effective business incubation programs. Business incubation experts Lichtenstein and Lyons offer information that arose from a fundamental question: What practices have entrepreneurs and policymakers used successfully to incubate new enterprises? To answer this question, they detail how business incubation really works, by describing and analyzing more than 110 successful incubation practices, drawn from both the public and private sectors. Together, these practices form a "playbook" of approaches that can be adopted or adapted by other programs. This guide also contains a conceptual framework--based on analysis by practitioners, not academics--that can help the reader understand how to use these practices to design effective incubation programs. Specifically, the framework will enable users to diagnose obstacles to entrepreneurship, design an action plan to help entrepreneurs overcome those obstacles, and deliver the assistance entrepreneurs need.

Incubating New Enterprises: A Guide To Successful Practice (Tools For Practice)

Gregg A. Lichtenstein

Thomas S. Lyons

This book offers a progress report on work accomplished over the last few years in comprehensive community initiatives (CCIs), a relatively new approach to community revitalization. Connell and Kubisch define a theory of change approach to CCI evaluation and describe steps stakeholders can follow to carry one out. Several practitioners share their experiences with the theory of change approach, together providing an up-to-date portrait of the field. The book provides an overview for understanding how to apply the approach and examples of its benefits and challenges. It offers new insights and information which can help CCI stakeholders approach the evaluation enterprise with greater confidence that the result will meet their various needs.

New Approaches to Evaluating Community Initiatives, Vol. 2: Theory, Measurement,

Politics & Social Sciences

EDITORS

Social Sciences

This book delineates the process by which foundations can be more effective in their philanthropy endeavors and successfully pursue their goals. Written by Denis Prager, president of Strategic Consulting Services and a former funder, it provides valuable information on the organizational and managerial aspects of how to increase the operational effectiveness of foundations. Published by the Aspen Institute's Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program, it's intended for board members, executive management, staff, and students in the nonprofit and philanthropy field.

Organizing Foundations for Maximum Impact: A Guide to Effective Philanthropy

Denis J. Prager

Challenging the Theology of Spectrum: Policy Reformation Ahead

Robert M. Entman

A Silent Tsunami: The Urgent Need for Clean Water and Sanitation

William K. Reilly

Harriet C. Babbitt

Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling our Promise to Our Nation's Children

Secretary Tommy G. Thompson

Minds on Fire

Communications and Society Program

Aspen Policy Books is a series devoted to developing critical new thinking on U.S. national security policy. This book is a collection of papers prepared for the 2007 summer Aspen Strategy Group conference on The Global Politics of Energy. This cross-disciplinary and high-level examination of policy strategies for addressing the challenges posed by the soaring demand for oil, the rise of petro-powes, and the implications of climate change makes energy security issues urgently relevant to the American and global policy communities.

The Global Politics of Energy

Engineering & Transportation

Dennis Ross

John Podesta

Jeffrey Bader

Stephen Biegun

Ivo Bozon

Jay Gulledge

Robert Hefner

David Rothkopf

Angela Stent

Daniel Yergin

David, Victor

Engineering

Aspen Policy Books is a series devoted to developing critical new thinking on U.S. national security policy. This book is a collection of papers prepared for the 2008 summer Aspen Strategy Group conference on The Instruments &amp; Institutions of American Purpose. These chapters represent a thorough accounting of the capabilities and limitations of the key organizations diplomatic, military, financial, and intelligence that American policymakers rely upon to address global challenges.

The Instruments and Institutions of American Purpose

Philip Zelikow

Brent Scowcroft

Aspen Strategy Group

Robert Gallucci

Ashton Carter

Richard Falkenrath

Lael Brainard

David Lipton

Ivo Daalder

Samuel Berger

Thomas Donilon

Andrew Krepinevich

Joseph Nye

Antony Blinken

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