Albritton Center for Grand Strategy (CGS) serves as an intellectual hub for the critical examination of American grand strategy. Specifically, the Center supports research that takes a fresh look at America’s grand strategic choices; fosters dialogue between scholars and practitioners; and helps prepare a new generation of public servants who will be grand strategic innovators.
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Robert Ralston, CGS predoctoral fellow, wrote the introduction for the H-Diplo teaching roundtable on "teaching grand strategy" recently. The roundtable featured essays from four strategy experts around the nation on their experiences teaching grand strategy to different kinds of students.
"What Good Is Grand Strategy? A Whiteboard" was co-written by CGS personnel Jasen Castillo, Kimberly Field, Robert Ralston, John Schuessler and Boston University professor (and former GBS faculty) Joshua Shifrinson.
Brig. Gen. (ret.) Kimberly Field, professor of the practice and executive director of the Albritton Center for Grand Strategy at The Bush School, discusses the notion of grand strategy in the context of alliance relationships in this episode of the Horns of a Dilemma podcast.
By Ramil Kasimov: Today, more than twenty years after the end of the Cold War, American troops are not just in Europe, but in Africa, East Asia, Central Asia, and the Middle East. No president has made the clear case to the American public, as President Harry Truman did, on what interests are at stake.
BG (ret) Kim Field provides the keynote address at the closing banquet of SCONA 65, “Forging America’s Future.” She also judged among 12 outstanding roundtable papers to pick the top two.
Ret. Brigadier General Kimberly Field, testified earlier this month to the Committee on Armed Services. The hearing was to receive testimony on the United States strategy in Afghanistan.
By J. Tedford Tyler: Climate change is receiving ample attention in global media. Greta Thunberg’s youthful vigor has brought renewed energy to the climate change issue, and the Democratic Party’s presidential primary is full of candidates with policy recommendations to tackle carbon emissions.
Jason Parker, Professor in Texas A&M University’s Department of History and CGS faculty affiliate, recently published “Elites Favor Federations Like the European Union. Non-elites Revolt.” in The Washington Post.
Robert Ralston, the Predoctoral Fellow at Albritton CGS, published “To Win, President Trump Must Look Forward, Not Backward” with The Washington Post shortly after President Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address.
On February 6, 2020, the Clements Center for National Security in partnership with the Texas A&M Albritton Center for Grand Strategy, Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins and the Duke University Program in American Grand Strategy hosted a conference on "Restraint and National Security." The conference explored the intent, the causes, and the consequences of restraint in foreign engagement in the course of American history. Professor John Schuessler gave a keynote address, “Offshore Balancing: Revisiting the World War II Case”, Professor Jeongseok Lee presented his work on restraint, SEATO and China, and BG(ret) Kim Field gave the closing remarks, “Reflections in View of the Practice of Strategy.” Importantly, six students attended the conference and participated robustly with great questions throughout the day.
Armed Rebel Groups Lobby in D.C., Just Like Governments. How Does that Influence U.S. Policy?” by Reyko Huang, Associate Professor of International Affairs at the Bush School and CGS faculty affiliate, was published in “The Monkey Cage,” The Washington Post’s political newsletter.
On Saturday, February 1st, the Albritton Center for Grand Strategy hosted a reading cohort social to discuss John Avlon’s Washington's Farewell: The Founding Father's Warning to Future Generations. The event was made possible by the John Quincy Adams Society (JQAS), a non-political and non-partisan organization “committed to identifying, educating, and equipping the next generation of scholars and policy leaders to encourage a new era of realism and restraint in American foreign policy.”
CGS welcomed Dr. Michelle Murray of Bard College to the Bush School to discuss her book, The Struggle for Recognition in International Relations. In her book, Murray strives to answer the perennial question of how established powers can manage the peaceful rise of another great power. Read more about Murray’s book discussion.
