In an era marked by escalating tensions and shifting power dynamics, the complexities of contemporary international relations seem daunting. To make sense of it all, we were honored to host our annual Spring Forum with Dan Negrea, co-author of "We Win, They Lose: Republican Foreign Policy & the New Cold War". Throughout the evening, audiences had the opportunity to explore the policy prescriptions found in this book to shape a new conservative consensus on approaching the world.

During this engaging event, Negrea unraveled the threads of "The New Cold War," exploring its origins, implications, and potential trajectories. Drawing on his firsthand experiences and scholarly expertise, he examined the fusion of Regan-era and contemporary conservative foreign policy perspectives, as well as the challenges and opportunities facing the United States and its allies.

This is your opportunity to push the conversation forward, challenge perspectives, and have your questions answered on the best path forward for U.S. Foreign Policy.

About the Speaker

Dan Negrea is the Senior Director of the Freedom and Prosperity Center of the Atlantic Council.

He was the State Department’s Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs between 2019 and 2021. In that capacity, he pioneered and led the Deal Team Initiative, a coordination mechanism between U.S. government agencies. The initiative promotes business relations between U.S. and foreign companies around the world.

He was a member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning office between 2018 and 2019 where he was responsible for the economic portfolio. He coordinated the Global Entrepreneurship Summit held in The Hague in 2019 that was attended by 2,000 participants from government, business, academia, and international organizations.

For three decades before that, he held leadership positions in Wall Street firms. He raised over $15 billion in financings in the United States and abroad, mostly for middle-market companies.

He defected from Communist Romania where he had been an official in the Ministry of Finance and was involved in negotiating government loans with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

He holds an MBA from Cornell University and an MA from the School of International Economic Relations in Bucharest, Romania. He has published extensively on foreign affairs.

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