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Facing the Future: U.S. Foreign Policy in an Era of Strategic Rivalry
Join the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy for a roundtable discussion on the future of U.S. foreign policy. Experts Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Ely Ratner, and Celeste Wallander will discuss the challenges presented by great-power competition, democratic backsliding, and the pursuit of an America First strategy. The event will be moderated by …
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The Colloquium in International Security Studies: Daniel Chardell
The Spring 2025 Colloquium in International Security Studies continues with a presentation by Henry Chauncey ‘57 Postdoctoral Fellow Daniel Chardell. A historian specializing in the history of U.S. foreign relations, the Cold War, and the Middle East, Chardell will present “Occupied with Linkage: Making and Breaking Bonds between Kuwait and …
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Brady-Johnson Book Series: Fiona Cunningham
The Grand Strategy Program continues its spring book series with political scientist Fiona Cunningham’s new book, Under the Nuclear Shadow: China’s Information-Age Weapons in International Security (Princeton University Press). Drawing on hundreds of original Chinese-language sources and interviews with security experts in China, Cunningham provides a rare and candid glimpse …
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The Colloquium in International Security Studies: Mattie Webb
The Colloquium in International Security Studies continues with a presentation by Mattie Webb, a Henry A. Kissinger Visiting Scholars Postdoctoral Fellow with the Johnson Center for the Study of American Diplomacy. A historian of U.S. foreign policy, labor, and race relations, Webb will present “Economic Sanctions Revisited: The Case of …
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Recipes for Resilience: Rethinking Food Security from the Local to the Global
Hosted by the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy in collaboration with the Yale Sustainable Food Program, Recipes for Resilience: Rethinking Food Security from the Local to the Global will explore the critical issues shaping global food systems, with a focus on access, sustainability, and power dynamics. The event will bring …
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The Long Game: Rush Doshi on China’s Grand Strategy
The Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy will host a discussion with political scientist Rush Doshi on US-China competition and Indo-Pacific security. Doshi will be in conversation with Michael Brenes, co-director of the Grand Strategy program and lecturer in history.
Doshi is the C.V. Starr senior fellow for Asia studies and …
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The Colloquium in International Security Studies: Charles Fawell
Join the Colloquium in International Security Studies for a presentation by Maritime and Naval Affairs Postdoctoral Associate Charles Fawell. A historian of European imperialism, Fawell will present “Stealing the State: Shipping Corporations and Sovereignty on the Indo-Pacific Corridors of European Colonialism, 1850-1950.”
The paper examines a set of state-backed shipping …
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Brady-Johnson Book Series: Alan McPherson
The Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy continues the Spring 2025 Book Series with a discussion of Alan McPherson’s The Breach: Iran-Contra and the Assault on American Democracy (UNC Press). In this gripping blow-by-blow account of the 1980s efforts to trade arms with Iran illegally, fund rebels in Central America despite …
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The Colloquium in International Security Studies: Anatoly Levshin
The Colloquium in International Security Studies continues its spring programming with a presentation by Anatoly Levshin. A political scientist, his research explores fundamental international security issues from the standpoint of world order. He will present his book proposal: “Bounding War: Rules of Neutralization, Demilitarization, and Non-Aggression and the Institutional Logic …
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Brady-Johnson Book Series: Marc-William Palen
The Grand Strategy Program welcomes historian Marc-William Palen for a conversation on his new book. In Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World (Princeton University Press), Palen shows that while free trade is often associated with right-wing free marketeers in the present, free trade and globalization have roots …
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Next-Gen Defense: A Conversation with the Honorable Christine Fox
The Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy will host a discussion with the Honorable Christine Fox on technological innovation and defense modernization in a changing world. Fox will be in conversation with Kaete O’Connell, assistant director of the Grand Strategy program and lecturer in global affairs.
Fox is a Senior Fellow …
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The Colloquium in International Security Studies: Megan Black
Join the Colloquium in International Security Studies for a presentation by Megan Black. A historian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Black will present “AMAX on Spaceship Earth: Multinational Malaise at the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment.” In June of 1972, the executives from the multinational mining company …
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Brady-Johnson Book Series: Gretchen Heefner
The Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy concludes the Spring 2025 Book Series with a discussion of Gretchen Heefner’s Sand, Snow, and Stardust: How US Military Engineers Conquered Extreme Environments (University of Chicago Press). Deserts, the Arctic, outer space—these extreme environments are often seen as inhospitable places at the edges of …
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The Colloquium in International Security Studies: Fritz Bartel
The Colloquium in International Security Studies concludes its Spring 2025 series with a presentation by Fritz Bartel. An Assistant Professor in International Affairs at Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government & Public Service, Bartel will present “The Age of Transitions: An Approach to the Global History of the Late 20th …
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