Andrew L. Ross, with Tai Ming Cheung and Thomas G. Mahnken, is the author of “Assessing the State of Understanding of Defense Innovation,” a SITC (Study of Innovation and Technology in China) Research Brief, published by the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. This piece was also included in Tai Ming Cheung, […]
Albritton Center for Grand Strategy News
Berlin Airlift and the Making of the Cold War
CGS hosted a two-day symposium commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift. The symposium kicked off on April 10th with a keynote address from Gen. Darren McDew, former commander of U.S. Transportation Command, delivered at the opening banquet. Attendees included Berlin Airlift pilot Col. Gail Halvorsen, known as the “Candy Bomber.” Symposium events the […]
CGS Academic Director Publishes Article in Center for a New American Security Symposium
Jasen Castillo, Academic Director of the Albritton Center for Grand Strategy, published an article, “Passing the Torch: Criteria for Implementing a Grand Strategy of Offshore Balancing,” in the New Voices in Grand Strategy symposium produced by the Center for a New American Security. The article can be read online.
Texas A&M Bush School Professor John Schuessler Puts Grand Strategy Front and Center
Dr. John Schuessler has put American grand strategy front and center since arriving at the Bush School of Government and Public Service. Schuessler is currently researching how we can think more systematically about the United States as an offshore balancer in the grand strategy realm. As Director of the Center for Grand Strategy, Schuessler has […]
Dr. Jasen Castillo Quoted in Mother Jones Magazine
Jasen Castillo, Academic Director of the Albritton Center for Grand Strategy, was quoted in an article titled “Trump’s Decision to Nuke a Key US-Russia Treaty Fuels a Simmering Global Arms Race,” published in Mother Jones Magazine on February 5, 2019. You can find the article online here.
The Unconstrained Presidency by Dr. Elizabeth Saunders
Dr. Elizabeth Saunders, Associate Professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, spoke to a full house at the Bush Library on Wednesday evening, January 30, 2019. Saunders’ lecture, based on her article “The Unconstrained Presidency,” published in the October/November 2018 issue of Foreign Affairs, discussed the gradual erosion of […]
Andrew Roberts Speaks to Bush School Students on Churchill and Grand Strategy
On January 29, 2019, the Albritton Center for Grand Strategy hosted a roundtable discussion with Andrew Roberts, British historian and acclaimed biographer of Winston Churchill, and several Bush School students. The group discussed lessons learned from Churchill’s experience as a wartime leader. Topics ranged from the Gallipoli Campaign in World War I to Churchill’s approach […]
CGS Academic Director Publishes Essay in the Texas National Security Review
An essay by Dr. John Schuessler, CGS Academic Director, titled “Democracy, War, and American Grand Strategy” was published in the Texas National Security Review on January 29, 2019. The essay, originally published as part of a roundtable in Taxing Wars: The American Way of War Finance and Decline of Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2018) by […]
Albritton Center for Grand Strategy Will Address Increasing Presidential Power in America
The Albritton Center for Grand Strategy at Texas A&M University’s Bush School of Government and Public Service is hosting Dr. Elizabeth N. Saunders from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Saunders will present a lecture on her Foreign Affairs article “The Unconstrained Presidency,” which discusses the recent trend of increasing presidential power in […]
James Stavridis Imparts Wisdom on Grand Strategy, Urges More Listening to Bridge Political Divide
ADM (Ret.) James Stavridis, NATO’s 16th Supreme Allied Commander Europe and 15th Commander of the U.S. European Command, warned students, faculty, and members of the community about a range of challenges facing the United States while advising that American grand strategy not neglect “soft” factors like gender or humanitarian aid to countries suffering from war […]
