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The International Crisis Management Exercise is a scenario, role-play exercise that takes place on a Saturday during the spring semester. In this daylong simulation, students act as members of the National Security Council and work together to come up with recommendations for an acting President regarding a mock international crisis. From the ten high schools participating in the Council’s educational program Great Decisions, a group of students are selected from each school to assume the roles of members of the National Security Council and represent different agencies or interests in the U.S. Government. Participation in this impactful and highly educational event is selective. Teachers choose their respective 4-6 participants based on their overall attendance and participation in the Great Decisions meetings during the past academic year. The exercise simulates the U.S. Government’s handling of a mock international crisis. All events of the day will be fictional, but plausible. With Ambassador Nancy Soderberg and Admiral Jonathan Howe, USN (Ret.) acting as Presidents, students must work together to come up with advice and recommendations regarding various aspects of the international crisis.
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International Crisis Management Exercise
What is ICME? The culmination of the Great Decisions program
presented by the World Affairs Council of Jacksonville
A scenario, role-play exercise that takes place one Saturday during the spring
Students act as members of the National Security Council and must work together to come up with recommendations for an acting President regarding a timely international crisis
Students spend several hours deliberating around a roundtable as if they were, collectively, the National Security Council
International Crisis Management ExerciseWhat is the National Security Council?
The President’s principal forum for considering national security and foreign policy matters
Chaired by the President, it is composed of senior national security advisors and cabinet officials; if the President is absent, the NSC is normally chaired by the National Security Advisor
Began under President Truman; established in 1947 by the National Security Act
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What is the role of National Security Council?
To advise and assist the President on national security and foreign policies
Also serves as the principal arm in coordinating these policies among various government agencies
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Who are the senior advisors and cabinet officials? Vice President
Secretary of State Secretary of the Treasury Secretary of Defense Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (statutory military advisor to the Council) Director of National Intelligence Chief of Staff to the President Counsel to the President
Assistant to the President for Economic Policy Attorney General Director of the Office of Management and Budget Heads of other executive departments and agencies and other senior officials when appropriate
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Current structure of the National Security Council President/Chair: Barack Obama
Vice President: Joe Biden Secretary of State: Hillary Clinton Secretary of Defense: Leon E. Panetta Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: General Martin Dempsey Director of National Intelligence:
James R. Clapper National Security Advisor:
Thomas E. Donilon Chief of Staff to the President:
William M. Daly Secretary of Homeland Security:
Janet Napolitano Deputy National Security Advisor:
Denis Mc Donough Secretary of the Treasury:
Timothy Geithner Attorney General: Eric HolderCounsel to the President:
Kathryn RuemmlerAssistant to the President for Economic Policy: Gene SperlingAmbassador to the United Nations:
Susan Rice
International Crisis Management Exercise About ICMEICME is facilitated by Ambassador Nancy Soderberg and Admiral Jonathan Howe:
Ambassador Nancy E.Soderberg is a Council Board member and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of North Florida in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration. She served in the White House as the third-ranking official on the National Security Council (1993-1996) and as Alternate Representative to the United Nations (1997-2001), with the rank of Ambassador. She was recently appointed as Chairperson of the Public Interest Declassification Board by President Barack H. Obama.
Admiral Jonathan T. Howe, USN (Ret.) is the Chairman of the Board at the World Affairs Council and the Executive Director of the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations. Prior to joining the Foundations in 1994, he served for a year in Somalia as the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations. He was Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs in the administration of President George H.W. Bush.
The purpose of the exercise is to illustrate to Great Decisions participants the complexity of decision-making by the President and his/her advisors when international affairs & incidents collide.
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Logistics of ICME Each participating student will be given a
job title and short job description prior to the event (e.g. Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, etc.)
A scenario (e.g. mock international crisis) will be provided ahead of time to students
Students are expected to prepare PRIOR to the event by reading the scenario and researching their assigned role (e.g. Secretary of State, Attorney General, etc.)
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Sample Job Description
The Secretary of State The Secretary of State is the Chief Diplomat of the United States and a senior member of the President’s cabinet. The Secretary of State, working through the Department of State and US Embassies abroad, primarily determines and carries out the foreign policy interests of the United States. The US Ambassadors and their staffs who work in US embassies in all parts of the world represent the Secretary of State and the President to foreign countries and carry out the orders of the Secretary of State abroad. The Ambassadors have authority over all US agencies and official personnel in country, except for US military personnel subject to the command of a major US military headquarters located in that country. The Department of State deals with international aspects of a broad range of issues, many of which have important domestic components as well. These issues include: international political affairs, representation before international organizations, economic and trade relations, civil aviation relations, oceans and environmental affairs, democracy, human rights, labor affairs, political military affairs, public affairs, US foreign aid and foreign security assistance, arms control and non-proliferation, anti-drug issues, counter terrorism issues and any issues arising from US treaties and agreements with foreign countries. Many of these issues have bilateral, regional and international aspects. The Department of State also includes the US passport office, which adjudicates nationality and issues passports to US citizens at home and abroad and handles all consular services for US and foreign citizens abroad (visa issuance, protection of US citizens, etc.). The Secretary of State will have a direct institutional interest and role to play in virtually any issue that may come up in the National Security Council. His/her personal ideas and policy instincts generally carry great weight with the President.
