On November 6, 2007, the Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs held a hearing entitled, “Six Years Later (Part II): ‘Smart Power’ and the U.S. Strategy for Security in a Post-9/11 World.”
The Honorable Richard L. Armitage. President George W. Bush’s first Deputy Secretary of State and former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the Reagan Administration
Joseph S. Nye Jr., Ph.D. Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and Chairman of the National Intelligence Council in the Clinton Administration; former Dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government; and noted foreign policy author, including having written, Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics.