The West Coast Assembly, the second of six meetings in The American Assembly's ambitious multi-year Next Generation Project, took place at the Faculty Club at the University of California, San Diego on February 22-24, 2007. The Assembly is co-sponsored with the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, led by Dean Peter F. Cowhey. 

Over two and a half days, the Next Generation Project Fellows' discussions laid the groundwork to assess the strengths and weakness of the current national and international institutional architecture.  Perhaps most importantly, fellows with a wide range of perspectives discussed these complex questions in a productive, respectful, and creative manner.