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As noted earlier, with all our chattering about our TPMCafe Fundraiser we want to bring you some news today about what we’ll be including in the initial launch of TPMCafe.com.

One of the features of the site we’re most excited about is a group blog focusing on foreign affairs and national security.

This is a subject that I haven’t written about recently as much as I have in the past. But, as you know, it’s one that interests me greatly. And this group blog will provide an informed and lively discussion of national security issues both as events develop in the news day to day, but also taking a broader view, thinking about the challenges that face the United States in the years and decades to come, and how to meet them.

The blog will have about half a dozen contributors who mix backgrounds in government work on the National Security Council, international relations and journalism. We’re still finalizing the list. But two of the contributors we’re ready to announce are Ivo Daalder of Brookings and Anne-Marie Slaughter of Princeton University.

Ivo served as director for European Affairs (’95-’96) on President Clinton’s National Security Council staff, where he was responsible for coordinating U.S. policy toward Bosnia. And from 1998-2001, he served as a member of the Study Group of the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century (i.e., the Hart-Rudman Commission).

To find out more about Daalder’s work you can read the Foreign Affairs review I wrote last year of the book he recently wrote with James Lindsay, America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy.

Slaughter is the Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs and an expert in international relations and international law. Her most recent book is A New World Order. And, no, I didn’t review that one. But, hey, I can only write so much.

Needless to say, we couldn’t be happier that such impressive folks have signed on.

We’ll be bringing you more on other contributors to the new site shortly …

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