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Bob Boorstin and Lawrence Korb, from the Washington-based Center for American Progress, presented their new report on U.S. national security to European audiences during a GMF-hosted tour through Berlin, Brussels, and Paris.   Their study, “Integrated Power: A New National Security Strategy for the 21st Century,” puts forth an alternative vision for U.S. foreign policy. Boorstin is Senior Vice President for national security and international policy at the Center, and Korb is a Senior Fellow at the think tank and a Senior Adviser to the Center for Defense Information.   “Integrated Power” argues that America’s interests are best achieved through a multidimensional approach that dismisses the dichotomy of “hard” and “soft” power, viewing them instead as two strands of the same thread. By merging the many and varied powers of the United States — military, economic, political, cultural, and diplomatic, among others — the country will be in the strongest position to address threats, prevent conflicts, and recapture its moral leadership.   Boorstin and Korb have three guiding principles for what the United States’ security strategy should be: protecting American people first, preventing conflicts, and leading vital alliances and modern international institutions.   “The United States works best when working with its allies rather than competing with allies,” Boorstin said in Brussels.   They said they had three reasons for coming up with a new strategy: the current one is inoperable given Iraq, conservatives and others are not good at pointing out what we should do to fix national security, and they want to show the world that there are multiple voices in the United States.   The full report can be downloaded here.