USGLC Publications

After analyzing over 20 reports and 2,000 pages created by a diverse group of over 500 expert contributors from various institutions, the USGLC released “Putting Smart Power to Work: An Action Agenda for the Obama Administration and the 111th Congress.” This report distills these wide ranging proposals into an extraordinary bipartisan consensus that America must strengthen its civilian capacity as a critical component to our national security. To take a closer look at the specific policies examined in creating “Putting Smart Power to Work,” the USGLC has put together a matrix of the eight areas considered in the analysis.A comprehensive list of the reports and papers used in this report can be found in the appendix.

Report on Reports | Matrix | Appendix

For each Administration the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs and the House Committee on Government Reform releases the official “Plum Book” identifying the nearly 8,000 presidential appointments within the federal government. To that end, the USGLC released its own version, known as the “Global Plum Book” identifying the key 100 appointed positions which are most significant in impacting global health, global development and diplomacy. Take a look at the USGLC’s “Global Plum Book” to see the positions in which it is critical the appointees share Obama’s vision for global engagement.

Global Plum Book

The USGLC released a poll of post-9/11 military officers conducted by the bipartisan polling team of Geoff Garin (Peter D. Hart Research Associates) and Bill McInturff (Public Opinion Strategies). In a memo on the poll results, Garin and McInturff wrote, “Eighty-four percent (84%) of officers say that strengthening non-military tools such as diplomacy and development efforts should be at least equal to strengthening military efforts when it comes to improving America’s ability to address threats to our national security.”