Commission to Release Report on 'Sleeping Giant' Threat to U.S. National Security

6/4/2004

From: Jamie Shor, 202-628-7772

News Advisory:

WHAT:

Commission to release report on "sleeping giant" threat to U.S. National Security.

Commission on Weak States and U.S. National Security to unveil findings of nine-month project.

WHEN: Tuesday June 8, from 9:45 a.m. - noon

WHERE: Senate Dirksen Office Building, SD-106

Featured Speakers:

-- Senator Joseph E. Biden, United States Senator (D-Del.)

-- Mark Malloch Brown, administrator, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

-- Stuart E. Eizenstat, co-chair, Commission on Weak States and U.S. National Security; Partner, Covington & Burling

-- John J. Hamre, president, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); Former Deputy Secretary of Defense

-- John Edward Porter, co-chair, Commission on Weak States and U.S. National Security; Partner, Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

-- Jeremy M. Weinstein, research fellow and project director, Center for Global Development

The Center for Global Development will release findings from its Commission on Weak States and U.S. National Security outlining devastating shortcomings in U.S. policy toward nations on the verge of collapse or recovering from conflict. These so-called "weak states" have a direct impact on our national security.

For the past nine months, the Commission on Weak States and U.S. National Security has been developing recommendations to deal with these challenges, in order to prompt the federal government to intensify and better direct its efforts in bringing these countries into the international community as responsible players in protecting global security.