The West Coast Assembly, one of The American Assembly's Next Generation Project, took place at the University of California, San Diego on February 22-24, 2007 and was co-sponsored with the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies.  Fellows agreed on a general vision of a plethora of transnational challenges and opportunities facing the United States that went beyond the scope of merely national security.  Focused on cooperative relationships rather than zero-sum outcomes, Fellows tended to think in terms of mutual opportunities rather than military cooperation or conflict. The traditional strength of the public sphere was yielding to the agents of innovation in the shape of businesses, philanthropies, and NGOs. Fellows were also increasingly uncomfortable with the division between domestic and international issues, instead seeing the two policies informing one another.