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MARVIN KALB: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to today’s Council on Foreign Relations meeting. And I am urged to ask you to please completely turn off — not just put on vibrate — your cell phones, BlackBerries, all wireless devices to avoid interference with the sound system. And what we’re going to say is actually on-the-record; has nothing to do with the usual Council rules.
I’m Marvin Kalb. I am now the writer-in-residence at the United States Institute of Peace. I’m the Murrow professor emeritus at Harvard; and, once in my life, I was a reporter.
And the people who are on the panel with me here this afternoon, to my immediate left, Stewart Patrick, senior fellow and director of the International Institutions and Global Governance Program here at the Council. To my further left — only geography — Steve Kull, director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes, worldpublicopinion.org.
Our subject is, “Does Public Opinion Matter? World Attitudes on Global Governance.” And I’m going to quote President Obama as heralding “a new era of global engagement,” and the obvious question is, what do publics, both here in the United States and elsewhere around the world, think of this idea; how are the institutional organizations actually coping with them?
We are, though, not politicians rolling out something today. It is a new digest form of existing polling data on many, many questions — 10 principal questions. And I would like to as Stewart to please start us off with some introduction to this new program.
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