While the Republican National Convention was in St. Paul this week, Minnesota Public Radio gathered a bipartisan group of former diplomats and a former U.S. congressman from Minnesota to discuss some of the foreign policy challenges facing the next president.

In summarizing the commonalities between the foreign policy challenges that panelists had listed, former Secretary of State and current chair of the National Democratic Institute (NDI) Madeleine Albright had this to say:

Louisiana’s Lieutenant Governor recently took part in a roundtable, co-hosted by the Aspen Institute and Root Cause Public Innovators, to discuss the newly released report, "Advancing Social Entrepreneurship: Recommendations for Policy Makers and Government Agencies".  Included in the panel were a government official, a social entrepreneur, two think tank policy experts representing the political left and right, and an expert on social entrepreneurship.