The military and international policy work currently so relevant to the United States on several fronts must be dominated by personality and interagency collaboration, National Security Council Director for Defense Policy Barry Pavel told the audience of students, faculty, and community members gathered in Princeton’s Dodds Auditorium on Monday, Mar. 21.

“Boundaries matter, but personalities matter more,” Pavel said. “You want to structure your organizational boundaries in a way that maximizes your advantages and minimizes your disadvantages, and so you have to work across the seam.”

Read more in the Woodrow Wilson School News.

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