Albritton Center for Grand Strategy co-director, John Schuessler, and co-authors Joshua Shifrinson and David Blagden published “Revisiting Insularity and Expansion: A Theory Note” in Perspectives on Politics. Shifrinson is an Associate Professor of International Relations at Boston University and former Bush School faculty member. Blagden is a Senior Lecturer in International Security at the Strategy and Security Institute within […]
Albritton Center for Grand Strategy News
Alexander Hamilton Society Hosts Virtual Talk with CGS Postdoc
The Alexander Hamilton Society Bloomington chapter at Indiana University hosted a recent virtual talk with Dr. Jaehan Park, the 2021-22 CGS Postdoctoral Fellow. Park’s presentation was based on his article in Orbis “The Korean Peninsula: A Geopolitical Pivot of Northeast Asia,” which examines four regional wars (the Imjin, the Sino-Japanese, the Russo-Japanese, and the Korean Wars) surrounding the […]
CGS Affiliates Named Non-Resident Fellows at the Quincy Institute
Dr. Aileen Teague, an Albritton Center for Grand Strategy (CGS) faculty member in the Department of International Affairs, and Dr. Robert Ralston, the 2019-20 CGS Predoctoral Fellow, joined the Non-Resident Fellows program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. The Quincy Institute Non-Resident Fellows program connects academics, advocates, and former officials across the country and gives […]
2021-22 CGS Postdoctoral Fellow Presents at APSA Conference
Dr. Jaehan Park, the 2021-22 Albritton Center for Grand Strategy (CGS) Postdoctoral Fellow, presented “The United States in the Asia-Pacific, 1895-1905: The Limits of a Rising Power” at the 117th Annual Meeting and Exhibition of the American Political Science Association (APSA) recently. The paper Park presented examines the record of American diplomacy during the critical decade […]
Introducing the 2021-22 Center for Grand Strategy Fellows
The Albritton Center for Grand Strategy (CGS) is pleased to welcome Dr. Jaehan Park as our Postdoctoral Fellow and Leyla Tiglay as our Predoctoral Fellow for the 2021-22 academic year. Park completed his PhD at Johns Hopkins University in August 2021, and Tiglay joins us from the Ohio State University. Park previously was a nonresident […]
CGS Faculty Affiliate Publishes Article in The National Interest
In August, The National Interest organized a symposium on American foreign policy in the Middle East under the Biden administration that posed the question, “Given Joe Biden’s recent decisions in Afghanistan and Iraq, is the president right to be reducing the U.S. military presence in the Middle East?” In “Leaving Afghanistan Doesn’t Mean a Total Middle East […]
Former CGS Predoctoral Fellow Publishes Article in Foreign Affairs
Dr. Robert Ralston, the 2020-21 Albritton Center for Grand Strategy (CGS) Predoctoral Fellow, and coauthor Dr. Ronald R. Krebs recently published “Why Conservatives Turned on the U.S. Military: Right-Wing Attacks Are Eroding Trust in the Armed Forces” in Foreign Affairs. Ralston is a Grand Strategy, Security, and Statecraft Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and […]
Former CGS Postdoctoral Fellow Named DSCU President
Dr. Celeste Ward Gventer, the 2020-21 Albritton Center for Grand Strategy (CGS) Postdoctoral Fellow, has been named the President of the Defense Security Cooperation University (DSCU) in Washington, DC. Gventer joined the Advising and Consulting Division of the Institute for Security Governance at DSCU in August 2021 as a Senior Lecturer and Regional Program Lead for […]
CGS Co-Directors Publish Opinion Piece With Newsweek
Dr. John Schuessler and Dr. Jasen Castillo, co-directors for the Albritton Center for Grand Strategy, recently published an opinion piece with Newsweek addressing the ongoing withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. Castillo and Schuessler identify lessons that can be learned from the current situation and implications for American foreign policy in the article. The Albritton Center for Grand […]
Former CGS Predoctoral Fellow Named to New Position at University of Birmingham
The Albritton Center for Grand Strategy (CGS) congratulates former CGS Predoctoral Fellow, Robert Ralston, who will be joining the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham as a Lecturer this coming academic year. Ralston is currently a Grand Strategy, Security, and Statecraft Fellow jointly appointed to the International Security Program […]
