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Enterprise Report Restoring Liberty, Opportunity, and Enterprise in America Issue No. 1, Winter 2016 Enterprise Report Restoring Liberty, Opportunity, and Enterprise in America Security and Free Enterprise at Home and Abroad By AEI President Arthur Brooks AEI Chairman Tully Friedman, my colleagues Michael Auslin and Daniel Blumenthal, and I recently returned from a trip to Singapore and Tokyo. We met with a variety of government and business leaders and exchanged ideas about free enterprise, entrepreneurship, and security. We also had the honor of meeting with the prime minister of Singapore and the prime minister of Japan. Japan is not only one of America’s most important allies but also the oldest democracy in Asia. It plays a pivotal role in maintaining stability in the region, particularly in the face of Chinese aggrandizement. Japan’s security is of prime importance to the United States, and American leadership in the region is crucial. Regrettably, despite an increasingly brazen China and a volatile North Korea, we are not hearing much from today’s presidential candidates about how to maintain regional stability. A major new AEI report tackles these issues head-on, along with a revanchist Russia and the ruthless Islamic State. Titled Why American Leader- ship Still Matters and developed through a bipartisan effort led by former Sens. Jon Kyl and Joseph Lieberman, the report explains why the world needs more—not less—leadership from the United States. See page 3 for more on this report. While in Singapore, I had the opportunity to speak with students at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. I focused on the message that capitalism is the best way to help the poorest among us. Singapore is an incredible economic success story, gaining indepen- dence from Malaysia in the 1960s with virtually no economy to speak of, and then be- Arthur Brooks coming one of the wealthiest city-states in the world within a generation. That revolutionary AEI President and success was driven not primarily through foreign aid or international philanthropy, but by Beth and Ravenel Curry capitalism and economic liberty. Scholar in Free Enterprise AEI is leading the conversation about how best to help the poor here at home, as well. As you will read on pages 4 and 5, we are talking with presidential candidates and setting the narrative for conservatives to show how free enterprise principles lead to the greatest human flourishing. We are also working across the aisle through efforts such as the AEI-Brookings Working Group on Poverty and Opportunity to address poverty and lack of opportunity in America. One of AEI’s top priorities is sharing our principles broadly and communicating our ideas with people across the country and around the world. To this end, we are bolstering our communications efforts with innovative new products and practices. One especially exciting new initiative is our forthcoming feature-length documentary (see page 7). The film will spotlight our unique message, drawing together themes such as free enterprise, meaningful work, and the sources of human happiness. We are speaking with people and gathering stories everywhere from New York and Appalachia to Copenhagen, Mumbai, and the Dalai Lama’s monastery in the Himalayan foothills. And while we develop new ways to share AEI scholars’ work with the world, we are also working to expand our own community. In the coming year, we will grow our network of diverse state-based leaders and young business leaders who are helping to share our ideas and bolster the number of college students learning from our scholars. See page 8 for special announcements and updates about these programs. Of course, all this new work—including our path-breaking research—is only possible thanks to you, our supporters, who are practicing and sharing free enterprise principles in your own lives and communities. I am truly excited to build on the successes we have shared over the past year, and I look forward to what we will achieve together in the next. AEI Annual Report AEI’s 2015 Annual Report is now available online: www.aei.org/publication/2015-annual-report/. We are glad to provide copies on request; please contact Gwendolyn Gorse at [email protected]. Why American Leadership Still Matters In December, the American Inter- nationalism Project—a bipartisan working group of top academics and policy experts led by Senators Jon Kyl and Joseph Lieberman—released its report Why American Leadership Still Matters, edited by AEI’s Phillip Lohaus. Steering Committee The report reflects the fundamental ELLIOTT ABRAMS consensus of the project’s members that Council on Foreign Relations American global leadership is just as DAVID ADESNIK crucial to the security, prosperity, and Foreign Policy Initiative freedom of the American people today THOMAS DONNELLY as it was 70 years ago. American Enterprise Institute The authors warn that “an increas- MACKENZIE EAGLEN American Enterprise Institute ingly brazen China, revanchist Russia, volatile North Korea, and ruthless “Our time pondering the role ERIC EDELMAN Johns Hopkins School of Advanced Islamic State collectively underscore of America in the world shows International Studies the need for more, not less, American that a bipartisan consensus exists DOUG FEITH leadership abroad.” around the fact that American Hudson Institute This report is the product of a series leadership still matters: It makes CHRISTOPHER GRIFFIN of working groups among an impres- Foreign Policy Initiative us safer and richer, and sustains sive 16-member steering committee STEPHEN HADLEY and more than two dozen additional an international system that has United States Institute of Peace transformed the world.” scholars, practitioners, and journalists BILL INGLEE from different parties, ideologies, and — Jon Kyl and Joseph Lieberman, ISM Strategies generations. The participants were The Hill ROBERT KAGAN divided into working groups along Brookings Institution issues of security, prosperity, and JACK KEANE principles of freedom, and representa- vibrant international economic sys- Institute for the Study of War tives from various relevant House and tem; and the growing link between HENRY OBERING Senate committees and government the American domestic economy and Booz Allen Hamilton agencies observed the discussions. foreign markets. MICHAEL O’HANLON Brookings Institution Many of the project’s participants The authors state that the disparate helped craft the final report, and the aspects of American global leadership DANIELLE PLETKA American Enterprise Institute authors are briefing US presidential are “intimately connected and often candidates, leaders on Capitol Hill, mutually reinforcing. The genius of GARY SCHMITT American Enterprise Institute and student groups around the country America’s approach is that, no matter about the importance of American how one rearranges the pillars of JAMES TALENT American Enterprise Institute internationalism. American global leadership, the end The report discusses US military result is positive.” leadership; tools of international To read the full report, visit engagement; the importance of www.aei.org/publication/why- committed, democratic partners; our american-leadership-still-matters. 3 AEI Cohosts US Presidential Candidate Forum on Poverty In partnership with the Jack Kemp Foundation, AEI cohosted a presidential-candidate forum titled “Expanding Opportunity” on Saturday, January 9, in Columbia, South Carolina, focusing exclusively on combating poverty. Six presidential candidates partic- ipated in the substantive discussion on fighting poverty and expanding opportunity in America: Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, John Kasich, and Marco Rubio. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley attended the forum and spoke briefly. The event was moderated by House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), with introductory remarks from Arthur Brooks. In his opening remarks, Brooks said, “Our current crop of 50-year- Photos of the Kemp Forum courtesy of Megan Davis and Tim Fisher. old policies . have failed in their true goal—to make poverty more escapable. They have failed because Observers are pointing to the robust work requirements and consis- they rest on an outdated philosophy Kemp Forum as an important step tent income eligibility across programs [that] treats work as a punishment, not for conservatives to show how free (proposed by Robert Doar), and the a blessing. It views poor people fun- enterprise principles create the best promotion of marriage (a major focus damentally as liabilities to manage, opportunity for disadvantaged of AEI’s Brad Wilcox’s work). not assets to develop and unleash.” Americans to succeed. Ron Haskins This forum follows a series of The Kemp Forum drew more than of the Brookings Institution noted, events that AEI scholars have orga- 1,000 attendees and 3,000 online “[This forum] demonstrates a growing nized surrounding the Republican viewers. It was widely covered by commitment among Republican and Democratic presidential debates print and broadcast media, with more politicians to focus attention on during this primary season, including than 20 mentions of the forum on how conservatives would support pre-debate events in Ohio, Nevada, television, including CBS’s Face the policies and programs to help poor and Colorado. Nation, MSNBC’s Morning Joe, and kids get ahead.” To watch clips from any of Fox News’s Special Report with Bret Many of the policies proposed by AEI’s 2016 presidential election Baier. Additionally, Brooks and AEI’s the candidates are closely related cycle events,
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