Campaign 2008: Public Opinion and Foreign Policy

Friday, September 26, 2008

Speakers

Andrew Kohut

President, Pew Research Center

Marvin Kalb

Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice, Emeritus; Senior Fellow, Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University

Presider

Margaret G. Warner

Chief Washington Correspondent, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

Set to be released next week, a new poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, conducted in association with the Council on Foreign Relations, examines American priorities on key foreign policy issues from terrorism to human rights, and reports on perceptions of the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan. What do these attitudes mean for U.S. foreign policy in the campaign and the next administration? Please join Andrew Kohut, Marvin Kalb, and Margaret Warner to discuss the poll’s findings and reflect on its implications for policy.

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