Presented by Citizen's Union and NYU Wagner. Citizen's Union Breakfast Briefs: a series of morning discussions with elected officials about the major issues facing New Yorkers.Wednesday, September 17, 20088:00 - 9:30 amFeaturing: City Council Member David Weprin

Citizen's Union Breakfast Briefs SeriesCo-sponsored by NYU Wagner and Citizen's Union With City Council Member John LiuA series of morning discussions with elected officials about the major issues facing New Yorkers. 8:00 am - Continental Breakfast available8:30 am - Welcome and Presentation by Featured Speaker9:00 am - Audience Q & A

Sponsored by the Wagner Office for International Programs. The Conflict, Security, and Development Series is co-hosted by NYU's Center for Global Affairs, NYU's Masters in Global Public Health Program, and the Office of International Programs at NYU Wagner. Each Thursday, this series will examine new research, discuss creative policy approaches and highlight recent analytical and practical innovations in responding to the challenges of security and development in the context of conflict and post-conflict situations. _______________________________________________ This Week: Where We Stand: 7 Years after the 9/11 AttacksWith Gideon Rose, managing editor, Foreign Affairs magazine; former Olin senior fellow and deputy director of national security studies, Council on Foreign Relations and John Gershman, clinical associate professor, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service; principal author of A Secure America in a Secure World (2004) and author of "Is Southeast Asia the Second Front?" Foreign Affairs (2002)

Lessons from Iraq: Avoiding the Next War a panel discussion and book party Tuesday.With Frances FitzGerald, journalist and author, best known for her Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Her chapter is entitled "Ideas Floating Free: War as Demonstration Model."Aziz Huq directs the Liberty and National Security Project at New York University's Brennan Center for Justice and co-authored Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror. His chapter is entitled "Torture No More."Jeffrey Laurenti, senior fellow and director of policy programs at The Century Foundation. He has written extensively on international security issues and his chapter is entitled "America's Slide: From Leadership to Isolation"and moderator,William D. Hartung, co-editor of Lessons from Iraq: Avoiding the Next War and director of the New America Foundation's Arms and Security Initiative.Hartung, who is writing a book about Lockheed Martin also contributed a chapter entitled "Invitations to Steal: War Profiteering in Iraq."

Top leaders in companies and non-profits address their challenges and successes in their partnerships both on a domestic and international front.

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