"U.S. Development Assistance: Re-Thinking and Re-Building the Third Pillar of National Security"

At the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Hilda Arellano, Counselor to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) presented a public lecture titled "U.S. Development Assistance: Re-Thinking and Re-Building the Third Pillar of National Security" at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 21, 2010, in Bowl 016, Robertson Hall.

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Development assistance isn't really the "third pillar" after defense and diplomacy because saying so forgets trade and commerce. Only people enamored with State Department bureaucrats would say things like this.