Statecraft 2.0: What America Needs to Lead in a Multipolar World

On Tuesday, February 3, 2026, the Clements Center for National Security, International Relations & Global Studies, and the LBJ School of Public Affairs hosted Ambassador Dennis Ross for a public book talk on Statecraft 2.0: What America Needs to Lead in a Multipolar World.

Ambassador Dennis Ross is the counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and teaches at Georgetown University’s Center for Jewish Civilization. For more than twelve years, he played a central role in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process, serving as the U.S. point man under both the George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations. He later served as special assistant to President Barack Obama and National Security Council senior director for the Central Region, including six months as special advisor on Iran to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. He is the author of numerous books on U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy, most recently Statecraft 2.0: What America Needs to Lead in a Multipolar World (Oxford University Press, 2025).