Upcoming Events

International Development Thumbnail
Thursday, January 30, 2025 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Henry R. Luce Hall
International Development
The Blue Center for Global Strategic Assessment will host a lecture on “International Development” as part of the center’s Co-Lectures in the Theory and Practice of Statecraft series. The lecture will be delivered by David Engerman, Leitner International Interdisciplinary Professor of History at Yale, and Naz El-Khatib, a former senior …
Please RegisterMore Information
Open Lecture & Book Talk featuring Iván Duque Thumbnail
Thursday, January 30, 2025 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Horchow Hall
Open Lecture & Book Talk featuring Iván Duque
Join Jackson School of Global Affairs Senior Fellow Iván Duque for an open GLBL 6150 lecture on environmental challenges and opportunities in Latin America. He will discuss his book, “Our Future: A Green Manifesto for Latin America and the Caribbean.” The talk is open to the Yale campus community only.
More Information
Discussion on “The Rivalry Peril” Thumbnail
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Humanities Quadrangle
Discussion on “The Rivalry Peril”
The Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy will host a discussion with Michael Brenes, co-director of the Grand Strategy program, on his new book, “The Rivalry Peril: How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy.” The book is co-authored by Van Jackson, professor of international relations at Victoria University of Wellington. …
Please registerMore Information
Brady-Johnson Book Series: Katherine Epstein Thumbnail
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
46 Hillhouse
Brady-Johnson Book Series: Katherine Epstein
The Grand Strategy Program presents a conversation with historian, and GS alum, Katherine Epstein on her new book, Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State (University of Chicago Press). Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence, Analog Superpowers tells the story of British inventors Arthur Pollen …
More Information
Legacies of the War on Terror Thumbnail
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Horchow Hall
Legacies of the War on Terror
The Blue Center for Global Strategic Assessment will host a lecture on “Legacies of the War on Terror” as part of the center’s Co-Lectures in the Theory and Practice of Statecraft series. The lecture will be delivered by Oona Hathaway, Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, …
Please RegisterMore Information
Dark Laboratory: A Conversation with Tao Leigh Goffe Thumbnail
Monday, February 10, 2025 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Humanities Quadrangle
Dark Laboratory: A Conversation with Tao Leigh Goffe
The Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and Whitney Humanities Center will co-host a discussion with Tao Leigh Goffe on her new book, “Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis.” She will be in conversation with Kaete O’Connell, assistant director of the Grand Strategy program. …
Please RegisterMore Information
The Colloquium in International Security Studies: Ruoyu Li Thumbnail
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
46 Hillhouse
The Colloquium in International Security Studies: Ruoyu Li
Join the Colloquium in International Security Studies for a presentation by Kissinger Visiting Scholars Predoctoral Fellow Ruoyu Li. A PhD candidate in Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, she is writing a dissertation that traces how U.S. nuclear tests in the Pacific Ocean instantiated military imperialism and triggered indigenous antinuclear …
More Information
Brady-Johnson Book Series: Lauren Benton Thumbnail
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
46 Hillhouse
Brady-Johnson Book Series: Lauren Benton
The Grand Strategy Program welcomes Yale historian Lauren Benton for a discussion of her new book They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence (Princeton University Press). In an account spanning from Asia to the Americas, Benton shows how imperial violence redefined the very nature of war and peace. Instead …
More Information
The Colloquium in International Security Studies: Nataliia Laas Thumbnail
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
46 Hillhouse
The Colloquium in International Security Studies: Nataliia Laas
Join the Colloquium in International Security Studies for a presentation by Henry Chauncey ‘57 Postdoctoral Fellow Nataliia Laas. A historian, Laas specializes in political economy, consumer society, gender, the history of the social sciences, and environmental history in the Soviet Union. She will present “Environmental Citizenship and the Economy of …
More Information
Strategies for Defending Human Rights: Lessons from Three Decades Leading Human Rights Watch Thumbnail
Thursday, February 20, 2025 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Horchow Hall
Strategies for Defending Human Rights: Lessons from Three Decades Leading Human Rights Watch
The Jackson School of Global Affairs will host a conversation with Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch, on “Strategies for Defending Human Rights: Lessons from Three Decades Leading Human Rights Watch.” The discussion will be moderated by Jonathan Fanton, president emeritus of the American Academy of Arts and …
Please registerMore Information
The Colloquium in International Security Studies: Michael Woldemariam and Alden Young Thumbnail
Tuesday, February 25, 2025 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
46 Hillhouse
The Colloquium in International Security Studies: Michael Woldemariam and Alden Young
The Colloquium in International Security Studies continues its spring programming with a presentation by political scientist Michael Woldemariam and historian Alden Young. The two scholars are co-writing a book on post-partition conflicts in the Horn of Africa (e.g., Sudan-South Sudan and Ethiopia-Eritrea) and will present “After the Split: Secession and …
More Information
The Colloquium in International Security Studies: Wen-Qing Ngoei Thumbnail
Tuesday, March 4, 2025 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
46 Hillhouse
The Colloquium in International Security Studies: Wen-Qing Ngoei
Join the Colloquium in International Security Studies for a presentation by Wen-Qing Ngoei. A former fellow with the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy, Ngoei will present “‘Better the hegemon you know…’: Singapore and Pax Americana from the Cold War to the Present.” The essay compares the Singapore-U.S. and Singapore-China relationships …
More Information
The Colloquium in International Security Studies: Daniel Chardell Thumbnail
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
46 Hillhouse
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 “Let my People Go—Where? Soviet Jewish Emigration and the End …
More Information
Brady-Johnson Book Series: Fiona Cunningham Thumbnail
Thursday, March 27, 2025 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
46 Hillhouse
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 …
More Information
The Colloquium in International Security Studies: Mattie Webb Thumbnail
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
46 Hillhouse
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 …
More Information
The Colloquium in International Security Studies: Charles Fawell Thumbnail
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
46 Hillhouse
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 …
More Information
The Colloquium in International Security Studies: Anatoly Levshin Thumbnail
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
46 Hillhouse
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 …
More Information
Brady-Johnson Book Series: Marc-William Palen  Thumbnail
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
46 Hillhouse
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 …
More Information
The Colloquium in International Security Studies: Megan Black Thumbnail
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
46 Hillhouse
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 …
More Information
Brady-Johnson Book Series: Gretchen Heefner Thumbnail
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
46 Hillhouse
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 …
More Information
The Colloquium in International Security Studies: Fritz Bartel Thumbnail
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
46 Hillhouse
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 …
More Information