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As the War on Terror rages on in Afghanistan, Americans have
never been more cognizant of the international threats to our domestic
security. However, more than a decade since the attacks of September 11th
and following the conclusion of the U.S. military presence in Iraq, one may
wonder the current state of America’s safety from enemies domestic and abroad.
Michael Cohen has extensively studied the state of America’s
national security through his role as a Fellow at the Century Foundation. He
has concluded that the media and U.S. policymakers have created a scenario of
threat inflation, rebutting that the U.S. is currently a remarkably safe and
secure home for its inhabitants. Stemming from this conclusion, Cohen argues
that the U.S. should readjust its foreign policy to more accurately reflect the
world that actually exists.
Michael Cohen is a
regular writer and commentator on American politics and U.S. foreign policy,
authoring Live from the Campaign Trail: The Greatest Presidential Campaign
Speeches of the 20th Century and How They Shaped Modern America as
well as many columns for the Guardian
newspaper. Formerly he was a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and
the American Security Project. He is a frequent writer on politics and
international affairs, and his work has been featured in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Foreign Affairs, Politico,
World Policy Journal, The Nation, Dissent and Reuters. Michael holds a bachelor’s degree in international
relations from American University and a master’s degree from Columbia
University, where he teaches in the School of International and Public Affairs.
Please join us for the Century
Foundation Fellow Michael Cohen’s talk, “Clear and Present Safety: America Has
Never Been Safer,” in Rockefeller 003 at 4:30 pm, January 14, 2013.
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