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The Grand Strategy Program welcomes Peter Roady for a discussion of his new book on the origins and evolution of national security. In The Contest over National Security: FDR, Conservatives, and the Struggle to Claim the Most Powerful Phrase in American Politics (Harvard University Press), Roady recovers FDR’s vision of national security which devoted as much attention to economic want as to foreign threats. He then demonstrates how the nascent conservative movement won the battle to narrow its meaning, privileging military defense over domestic economic policy and durably reshaping US politics.

Roady is an assistant professor of history at the University of Utah. Prior to pursuing his PhD, he spent several years in national security and foreign policy positions in the U.S. government, focusing on South Asia and cyber issues. Roady will be in conversation with Michael Brenes, co-Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and lecturer in History.

This event is open to the Yale community. Please register in advance.