ABSTRACT
On 6 October 2006 the Council on Foreign Relations in collaboration with The International Institute for Strategic Studies held a symposium in New York under the title ‘Iraq’s Impact on the Future of US Foreign and Defense Policy’. Four sessions covered the United States and the Middle East, US relations with Europe and Asia, the direction of American foreign and defence policy, and future policies towards rogue, failing and proliferating states. Panelists and presiders included Toby Dodge of the IISS and the University of London, Steven N. Simon of the Council on Foreign Relations, Shibley Telhami of the University of Maryland and the Brookings Institution, F. Gregory Gause III of the University of Vermont, Dana H. Allin of the IISS, Phillip C. Saunders of the National Defense University, Philip H. Gordon of the Brookings Institution, Michael R. Gordon of The New York Times, Ronald Steel of the University of Southern California, Walter Russell Mead of the Council on Foreign Relations, Lawrence Freedman of King’s College London, Steven E. Miller of the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard, and Richard K. Betts of Columbia University and the Council on Foreign Relations. The organisers of the symposium commissioned nine essays for publication in two consecutive issues of Survival, and to be collected subsequently in an edited volume. Three of those essays appeared in the Winter 2006–07 issue. The remainder, by Simon, Dodge, Telhami, Allin, Saunders and Steel, follow. The symposium and publications were made possible by a generous gift from Rita E. Hauser.
