The Department of International Affairs in the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University invites applications and nominations for a tenure-track, assistant professor position in the area of grand strategy. By grand strategy, we mean the use of statecraft by great powers to achieve foreign policy goals, broadly defined. We seek […]
Albritton Center for Grand Strategy News
Former CGS Fellow Published in Perspectives on Politics
Former Albritton Center for Grand Strategy (CGS) Fellow Dr. Robert Ralston recently published “No Right to Be Wrong: What Americans Think about Civil-Military Relations” in Perspectives on Politics with coauthors Ronald R. Krebs and Aaron Rapport. CGS was happy to have the opportunity to support Dr. Ralston and the research that went into the article, much of […]
CGS Faculty Affiliate Highlighted in Multiple Publications
Over the past year, Dr. F. Gregory Gause III, Head of the Department of International Affairs at the Bush School and CGS faculty affiliate, has published a number of articles, including: “The United States Is the Last Check on MBS’s Power” and “The End of Saudi Arabia’s Ambitions” in Foreign Affairs, “Saudi Arabia and Regional Leadership: The […]
CGS Faculty Affiliate Receives Joint Appointment with Los Alamos National Laboratory
Congratulations to CGS faculty affiliate Dr. Andrew L. Ross, Professor of International Affairs and the Brent Scowcroft Chair in International Policy Studies, on his a joint appointment with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Under the joint appointment, Professor Ross will work with the leadership of LANL’s National Security and International Studies Office primarily to support the Director’s […]
Dr. John Schuessler Updates H-Diplo Article on President Trump
In his essay “Why Does Donald Trump Have So Much Trouble with the Truth? A Brief Update,” Dr. John Schuessler, Co-director of the Albritton Center for Grand Strategy and Associate Professor of International Affairs at the Bush School, revisits his article published with H-Diplo in 2017. In the 2017 article, Schuessler discussed Trump’s troubled relationship with the truth and offered […]
CGS Faculty Affiliate Wins Two Prestigious Funding Awards
The Albritton Center for Grand Strategy congratulates CGS faculty affiliate Dr. Yuval Weber for winning two prestigious funding awards. Weber, with Edward Lemon and Marlene Laruelle, was awarded the Department of Defense’s Minerva Research Initiative grant to investigate hierarchy and resilience in global power politics, focusing on Central Asian countries such as Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and […]
Dr. John Schuessler Participates in Panel at Johns Hopkins University
On December 3, 2020, CGS Co-Director John Schuessler participated in a panel hosted by the Aronson Center for International Studies at Johns Hopkins University on “Reimagining US Foreign Policy in the Middle East and North Africa.” The panel, hosted by Adria Lawrence, also included Vali Nasr, Eugene Finkel, and Calvert Jones. The panelists discussed the […]
Albritton CGS Affiliate Participates in Army War College’s War Room Podcast
Dr. Adam Seipp, Texas A&M Professor of History and Albritton CGS affiliate, recently participated in the Army War College’s War Room podcast “Past Visions of Future Wars” to talk about military fiction and the techno-thrillers of the 1980s. Dr. Sieep was joined by DUSTY SHELVES editor, Tom Bruscino, and podcast editor Ron Granieri in the […]
CGS Faculty Affiliate Publishes Article in Foreign Affairs
Dr. Mohammad Tabaar, Associate Professor in the Department of International Affairs at the Bush School and CGS faculty affiliate, recently published the article “No Matter Who Is U.S. President, Iran Will Drive a Harder Bargain Than Before: Washington Doesn’t Have the Leverage It Imagines” in Foreign Affairs. Tabaar notes that despite escalations on both sides since the […]
CGS Predoctoral Fellow, Kendrick Kuo, Publishes Article in Journal of Global Security Studies
Kendrick Kuo, the 2020-21 CGS Predoctoral Fellow, published the article “Military Innovation and Technological Determinism: British and US Ways of Carrier Warfare, 1919–1945” in the Journal of Global Security Studies. The central claim in the article is that theories of military innovation are often based on a form of technological determinism: an assumption that there is […]
