Director's Welcome
Welcome to the electronic home of the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs. Or as we like to say here in Aggieland: Howdy! We look forward to welcoming you to our real-world home, located in the Allen Building of the Bush Presidential Library Complex on Texas A&M University's West Campus.
International affairs today knows no bounds in our increasingly globalized world, and thus we are most pleased to be on the forefront of the expansion of international interest, research, and work currently underway in our home state of Texas. With an international border of its own, Texas is well poised to be a leader in American foreign affairs in this new twenty-first century. We here at A&M— one of the state's two flagship universities— and especially at the Scowcroft Institute are thrilled to play our part in bringing Aggieland to the world, and the world to Aggieland. Neither, we expect, will ever be the same again.
The Scowcroft Institute itself was founded in 2007 to honor Lt. General Brent Scowcroft, the only man to have twice been named National Security Advisor to the President. First for Gerald Ford in the mid-1970s, and then later as a principal advisor to our school's namesake, George H.W. Bush, Scowcroft served with wisdom and thoughtful policymaking at a level rarely equaled and never surpassed even in the highest corridors of power. He remains today a leading voice for a pragmatic American engagement with the world, and we are proud not only to bear his name, but also to continue his example of thoughtful and reasoned research and work within the broader international arena.
The Scowcroft Institute, therefore, brings together a number of existing programs at the Bush School and the Bush Foundation, including the School's monthly International Affairs Seminar and the Foundation's semi-annual Lenore and Francis Humphrys' International Speakers Program. Both programs bring some of the world's top policymaking and academic minds to College Station for public lectures and thoughtful conversation, to which everyone is invited. Please consider yourself invited as well! Along with these programs, our institute also offers an Ansary Foreign Policy conference series on topics chosen to interest the public and policymaking community alike, and we also facilitate extensive scholarly research at the Bush Presidential Library through our Korea and O'Donnell research grants. We invite applications for these grants from scholars throughout the world. For our fellow Aggies, we offer faculty research grants thanks to a generous gift from General Scowcroft himself.
Our schedule of events is linked from this page and includes all of our speaker series, our conference series, and our "Meet the Author" series, where members of our own academic family present their latest research.
Our goal throughout is to bring the world to Aggieland, and Aggieland to the world. We look forward to seeing you at future events, and of course please do not hesitate to contact us for ideas, for suggestions, or simply to participate in our growing international community here in the heart of Texas.
Sincerely,
Jeffrey A. Engel
Interim Director
