Michael Mandelbaum Foreign Policy Specialist Professor, Johns Hopkins Johns Hopkins foreign policy specialist and bestselling author Michael Mandelbaum is known for his ability to explain the meaning and consequences of complicated global developments and trends. The New York Times called him "one of the country's leading public intellectuals," and Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers. Co-written with Thomas Friedman, Mandelbaum's That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back, debuted at #2 on The New York Times bestsellers list. Library Journal called it “a book of exceptional importance” that “should be read by policymakers and every American concerned about our country's future.” In March 2014, Simon & Schuster published his latest book, The Road to Global Prosperity, which looks at the future of the global economy and includes sections on financial stability, international security, the politics of trade, and emerging markets. Mandelbaum is the author or co-author of 14 books, including The Case for Goliath, Democracy’s Good Name, The Meaning of Sports, and The Frugal Superpower, which The Financial Times named one of the best non-fiction books of 2010. His classic, The Ideas That Conquered the World, has been translated into seven languages, including Chinese and Arabic. Thomas Friedman described it as "important and compelling," while Henry Kissinger praised it as “illuminating and thought-provoking.” The Christian A. Herter Professor and Director of American Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Mandelbaum has taught at Columbia University, Harvard, and The United States Naval Academy. He was educated at Yale, Cambridge, and Harvard. A former Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Mandelbaum serves on the board of advisors of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. The World Affairs Councils of America named him one of the most influential people in American foreign policy. He has been a guest on Charlie Rose, Face The Nation, and The Daily Show. Our team has been flooded with positive feedback regarding Michael Mandelbaum's presentation and the discussion it sparked. We could not have been more pleased. Caterpillar Royce Carlton. Inc.866 United Nations Piaza New York NY 10017-1880 1.800. LECTURE 212.355.7700 fax 212.888.8659. email:[email protected] website: www.roycecarlton.com Michael Mandelbaum Suggested Topics Geopolitics and Global Risks An analysis of geopolitical developments, risks, and trends around the world. What matters now and what will affect companies, countries, and markets in the years ahead? Michael Mandelbaum discusses a range of topics, including: the crisis in Ukraine and Russia's aggressive policies towards its neighbors, the dangers posed by "rogue" countries such as North Korea and Iran, China's ambitions in the East and South China Seas, the ongoing upheavals in the Middle East, the future of the euro and the European Union, and the changing role of the United States in a world of shifting alliances and increasingly dispersed power and influence. The Future of the Global Economy: Fault Lines and Opportunities Michael Mandelbaum explains the significance — for firms, countries, investors — of the various forces that will shape the global economy and assesses their likely trajectories in the next decade. The American Agenda: What the 2016 Election Should Be About China & India: Political Burdens, Economic Promise Royce Carlton. Inc.866 United Nations Piaza New York NY 10017-1880 1.800. LECTURE 212.355.7700 fax 212.888.8659. email:[email protected] website: www.roycecarlton.com Michael Mandelbaum Books and Other Works The Road to Global Prosperity Available March 2014 Advancing the powerful argument he made with Thomas L. Friedman in their bestselling That Used to Be Us, Michael Mandelbaum describes the forces driving the next stage of globalization, one of expanding wealth and vast opportunity. The terrifying financial meltdown of 2008, the continuing danger faced by Europe’s common currency, and the dramatically reduced growth of China, India, and other emerging nations: these factors have called into question the future of globalization. Will it continue? And can it keep benefitting the world’s seven billion people? In The Road to Global Prosperity, Michael Mandelbaum, one of America’s leading authorities on international affairs, examines the obstacles and concludes that globalization is an irreversible and positive force in the world of the 21st century: leaders realize that their power depends on delivering prosperity to their citizens, countries will cooperate more and fight less. As more nations connect, the size of the economic pie expands. And even as immigration increases, more money crosses borders, and previously weak nations rise, individuals and societies will grow richer. Mandelbaum provides the most comprehensive understanding of globalization’s future in the wake of the economic shocks of the last five years, the most illuminating examination of the crucial political issues that will determine the future, and the most persuasive case for optimism about the world economy. Publisher: Simon & Schuster Royce Carlton. Inc.866 United Nations Piaza New York NY 10017-1880 1.800. LECTURE 212.355.7700 fax 212.888.8659. email:[email protected] website: www.roycecarlton.com Michael Mandelbaum That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back Published 2011 America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, and Michael Mandelbaum, one of our leading foreign policy thinkers, analyze those challenges -- globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation’s chronic deficits, and its pattern of energy consumption -- and spell out what we need to do now to rediscover America and rise to this moment. They explain how the end of the cold war blinded the nation to the need to address these issues. They show how our history, when properly understood, provides the key to addressing them, and explain how the paralysis of our political system and the erosion of key American values have made it impossible for us to carry out the policies the country needs. They offer a way out of the trap into which the country has fallen, which includes the rediscovery of some of our most valuable traditions and the creation of a new, third-party movement. That Used to Be Us is both a searching exploration of the American condition today and a rousing manifesto for American renewal. “As we were writing this book,” Friedman and Mandelbaum explain, “we found that when we shared the title with people, they would often nod ruefully and ask: ‘But does it have a happy ending?’ Our answer is that we can write a happy ending, but it is up to the country -- to all of us -- to determine whether it is fiction or nonfiction. We need to study harder, save more, spend less, invest wisely, and get back to the formula that made us successful as a country in every previous historical turn. What we need is not novel or foreign, but values, priorities, and practices embedded in our history and culture, applied time and again to propel us forward as a country. That is all part of our past. That used to be us and can be again -- if we will it.” The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era Published 2010 In this incisive new book, Michael Mandelbaum argues that the era marked by an expansive American foreign policy is coming to an end. During the seven decades from the U.S. entry into World War II in 1941 to the present, economic constraints rarely limited what the United States did in the world. Now that will change. The country's soaring deficits, fueled by the huge costs of the financial crash and of its entitlement programs— Social Security and Medicare—will compel a more modest American international presence. In assessing the consequences of this new, less expensive foreign policy, Mandelbaum, one of America's leading foreign policy experts, describes the policies the United States will have to discontinue, assesses the potential threats from China, Russia, and Iran, and recommends a new policy, centered on a reduction in the nation's dependence on foreign oil, which can do for America and the world in the twenty-first century what the containment of the Soviet Union did in the twentieth. Which of America’s essential international commitments can we afford to keep in this time of diminished financial resources? Publisher: PublicAffairs Royce Carlton. Inc.866 United Nations Piaza New York NY 10017-1880 1.800. LECTURE 212.355.7700 fax 212.888.8659. email:[email protected] website: www.roycecarlton.com Michael Mandelbaum Democracy's Good Name: The Rise and Risks of the World's Most Popular Form of Government Published 2007 One of America's leading foreign policy thinkers investigates the reasons for democracy's exponential rise in the last century and critically examines democracy's potential in the Middle East, Russia, and China. Publishers Weekly review: "Democracy, until recently, was an anomaly in a landscape of monarchies, dictatorships and empires; its critics " including America's founding fathers " associated it with mob rule and demagogic tyranny. In this engaging treatise, Mandelbaum explains how the modern democratic fusion of popular sovereignty " i.e., majority rule " with individual liberty came to dominate the world's polities. His first reason is straightforward: democracy works. Democratic nations, he notes, especially the flagship democracies of Britain and the U.S., are wealthier, stronger and more stable and inspire other countries to emulate them.