I was pleased by President Obama's 'aw-shucks' comments on winning the Nobel Peace Prize, saying:

Today at the Brookings Institute Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke about the past year's economic collapse. He spoke about the events in the United States and of the similar experiences across the world. In his statements he discussed the steps that regulators and the Federal Reserve took to slow the rate of decline and mitigate the effects of the downturn. However, he stressed the importance of the global response.

In a recent Foreign Affairs article written by Dartmouth Government Professors Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth, the U.S. is named as the nation with the ability and the need to cooperate with other nations and reform international institutions in a way that would be mutually beneficial for America and the world.  The article, called Reshaping the World Order, describes how current international institutions such as the U.N.

About 30 international students from North Carolina State University hustled themselves out of bed on a Saturday morning to talk about what it means to be a Global Citizen. CEO Don Kraus met with the students at the CGS office in Washington, D.C., where he emphasized the need to be engaged with the rest of the world by learning, lobbying and traveling.

He demonstrated those points by showing the group the winning videos and animations from our 2008 Multimedia contest.