BG (ret) Kim Field, Executive Director of the Albritton Center for Grand Strategy, provided 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. Find more information at scona.tamu.edu.
Albritton Center for Grand Strategy News
Kimberly Field testifies to the Committee on Armed Services
Ret. Brigadier General Kimberly Field, Executive Director of the Albritton Center for Grand Strategy, testified earlier this month to the Committee on Armed Services. The hearing was to receive testimony on the United States strategy in Afghanistan. United States Strategy in Afghanistan Committee Hearing Video
The Washington Post Publishes CGS Faculty Affiliate, Dr. Jason Parker
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.
CGS Fellow, Robert Ralston, Published 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.
Dr. Reyko Huang, CGS Faculty Affiliate, Published in The Washington Post’s “Monkey Cage”
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.
Professor John Schuessler Gives Keynote Address At Restraint and National Security Conference
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 […]
John Avlon’s Washington’s Farewell: The Founding Father’s Warning to Future Generations
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 […]
CGS Hosts Dr. Michelle Murray on “The Struggle for Recognition in International Relations”
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.
The paper “When Do Leaders Free-Ride? Business Experience and Contributions to Collective Defense” was published in the American Journal of Political Science
The paper shows that world leaders with business experience make smaller contributions to collective defense than their non-business counterparts. The story is available online.
CGS Executive Director, Kimberly Field, and CGS Affiliate, Elizabeth Cobbs, Published in The New York Times
Prof. Kimberly Field, CGS Executive Director, and Dr. Elizabeth Cobbs, , Professor in Texas A&M University’s Department of History and CGS faculty affiliate, argue for a more clearly defined U.S. grand strategy in their article “Why Did the U.S. Kill Suleimani?” in The New York Times.
