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.
Albritton Center for Grand Strategy News
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.
Kimberly Field, CGS Executive Director, Interviewed on Local News
Prof. Kimberly Field, CGS Executive Director, was recently interviewed by the local news station KBTX. Watch the discussion about Iranian military general’s death on January 6 and the conversation about the Afghanistan Papers on December 16 online.
Incoming CGS Faculty, Aileen Teague, Publishes Article in Washington Post
Dr. Aileen Teague, who will begin her appointment as Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the Bush School in the 2020-21 academic year, was recently published in the Washington Post. Teague’s article, “Why Abruptly Abandoning the Drug War is a Bad Idea for Mexico,” can be read online here.
CGS Academic Director Presents to Intelligence Community at University of Virginia
Dr. Jasen J. Castillo, Academic Director of the Albritton Center for Grand Strategy, recently briefed the faculty of the Batten School of Public Policy and members of the intelligence community at the University of Virginia on his book, Endurance and War: The National Sources of Military Cohesion. For more information about Castillo’s book, please click here.
Dr. Fritz Bartel Co-hosts Conference on the End of the Cold War at Yale University
With the support of the Albritton Center for Grand Strategy, Dr. Fritz Bartel cohosted a conference at Yale University marking the 30th anniversary of the end of the Cold War. Along with Professor Nuno Monteiro of Yale’s Department of Political Science, Bartel welcomed twenty leading historians and political scientists to New Haven to discuss the […]
CGS Academic Director Jasen J. Castillo Publishes Article in The National Interest
Dr. Castillo’s article, “Don’t Leave Grand Strategy to the Generals,” was the lead article in The National Interest on October 31, 2019. The article can be read online at https://nationalinterest.org/feature/don%E2%80%99t-leave-grand-strategy-generals-92511.
The 2019 Brose Distinguished Lecture Series at Penn State University
Lorien Foote was the 2019 Brose Distinguished Lecturer at the Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State. She gave a three-night lecture series entitled “Civilization and Savagery in the American Civil War: Retaliation and the Conduct of Campaigns.” During the Civil War, Union and Confederate officials used retaliation in every military campaign to negotiate […]
CGS Predoc Fellow Robert Ralston, Presents Research
Robert Ralston, the 2019-20 CGS Predoctoral Fellow, presented one of the chapters of his dissertation which addresses the ambiguity surrounding a great power’s decline in his talk “The Causes and Consequences of Declinism in Great Powers” on October 23, 2019. A full summary of the talk can be read online.