george kennan, san lewis, wins the award, dennis ross, people who have a passion for public service. let's begin with the questions. >> that was a wonderful overview and maybe this question is too specific and not general enough but you began by saying how did we get to be denmark? there is a big divide opening between england and us and europe. their version of the state involve a lot more state responsibility to take care of retirement, organize health and we seemed to be going in the other direction. is there something in your theory that speaks to that? >> you have got to wait for volume ii for that. is a very good question. it is a volume ii kind of issue. most of what i know about this subject i learned from seymour martin lips and the great sociologist and political scientist who wrote an excellent book called american exceptional is in. which is a book about why the united states is so peculiar compared to other developed countries. one of the important ways is different is we don't have -- we don't trust government. in europe people see the government as the embodiment of pu

it's helpful, for example, to see how george kennan analyzes the sources of soviet conduct, or to learn how someone like dick holbrook strifes to end a war -- strives to end a war. or how colin powell leads. wouldn't it be great to have a book from ryan crocker on expeditionary diplomacy, or a book from pat kennedy on management and diplomacy? or a book someday from mark grossman on afpac diplomacy. so i believe this is for state an area for improvement. and i assume that this is what the academy of diplomatic studies and training has in mind with this series on dip ro mats and -- diplomats and diplomacy. and it's an ambition for my particular book, "high value target." now, the second proposition i'd like to make to you this morning is that effective counterterrorism needs a strategy. i argue in this book thatdown terrorism could not -- that counterterrorism should not be conceived narrowly as an intelligence matter or a military question, but rather it should be conceived as a broad strategy. in yemen we encapsulated our strategy as no development without security, and no security wit

george kennan, san luis, winston lord, robert bluey, dennis ross, people have a passion for of that serviceas does francis fukuyama. so let's begin with questions. >> that was a wonderful overview, and maybe this question is too specific and not general enough. but you begin by saying how do we get to the denmark. and there is now a divide opening between england and us, and europe. their vision of the state involves a lot more state responsibility to take care of retirement, and organize health. and we seem to be going in exactly the other direction. is there something in your theory that speaks for the? >> have to wait for volume two for that point. last night it's a very good question. it is a volume to kind of issue, but most of what i know about this subject i learned from the great sociologists and political scientist who wrote a very excellent book called american exceptionalism, which is a book about why the united states is a peculiar when you compare it to other developed countries. and one of the important ways it's different is we don't trust government. just don't trust governm

a slightly improved george kennan. first, it is a deep knowledge of your own society; its politics, its history, its economics, its culture, the history of its forbe relations. interestingly -- foreign relations. interestingly, american foreign policy is very seldom taught as a summit in our universities -- as a subject in our universities today. there are few really good texts on the subject. it's even less taught outside the united states. but a deep understanding of the history of this country's foreign relations, i think, is an absolutely vital first step to the production of people, the education of people who can make good foreign policy into the future. then i would say the next thing is a knowledge of the other. in this case, let's talk about the significant others. the key countries, cultures out there with whom your foreign relations will bring you into deep contact. so that what george kennan was able to do about russia one would hope that our policymakers in the future, their education will prepare them to