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 […]
Albritton Center for Grand Strategy News
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 […]
Dr. Celeste Ward Gventer Selected as 2020-2021 Gilder Lehrman Institute Scholarly Fellow
Dr. Celeste Ward Gventer, this year’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the Albritton Center for Grand Strategy, was selected by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History as a Scholarly Fellow for the 2020-2021 academic year. The Gilder Lehrman Institute provides short-term research fellowships each year to enable scholars and graduate students to conduct research in New York-based archives. This year’s fellowships […]
Albritton Center for Grand Strategy and Scowcroft Institute Release Volume Discussing Russia Policy Under Next U.S. President
On September 21, 2020, the Albritton Center for Grand Strategy (CGS) and Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University are releasing a volume discussing Russia policy under the next U.S. president. A perennial issue facing presidents is American policy towards Russia. Specifically, the next […]
Dr. Jasen Castillo Coauthors Piece in the Journal of Strategic Studies
Dr. Jasen Castillo, Associate Professor in the Department of International Affairs at the Bush School and co-director of the Albritton Center for Grand Strategy, coauthored “Loyalty, Hedging, or Exit: How Weaker Alliance Partners Respond to the Rise of New Threats” with Alexander B. Downes in the Journal of Strategic Studies. The article explores how weaker […]
CGS Affiliate Dr. Yuval Weber Co-Authors Piece In Defence and Peace Economics
Dr. Yuval Weber, a Bush School faculty member at the DC teaching site and CGS affiliate, coauthored “Hierarchy of Membership and Burden Sharing in a Military Alliance” with Shlomo Weber and Hans Wiesmeth in Defence and Peace Economics. The article examines and analyzes a military alliance with members of different economic and historical backgrounds that […]
