When designing a new international development agency, the most important question is what issues people around the world actually care about, and polling shows they prioritize education, health, science, technological cooperation, and entrepreneurship rather than counterterrorism or nuclear weapons concerns that dominate US foreign policy.
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Ben RhodesEvidence Quote
“every time the answers were education health science and technological cooperation entrepreneurship guess what's not on the list you know terrorism you know nuclear weapons uh the things that we talk to them about”
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Ben Rhodes: The Warren and Anita Manshel Lecture in American Foreign Policy— Weatherhead Center for International AffairsCreated: 8/11/2026, 7:23:32 AM
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