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The Colloquium in International Security Studies continues with a presentation by Sean Case, a Henry A. Kissinger Visiting Scholars Postdoctoral Fellow with the Johnson Center for the Study of American Diplomacy. An interdisciplinary scholar who bridges modern American political and intellectual history with international relations, Case will present the proposal for his book manuscript, In the Balance: The Birth of American International Relations and the “Defense” of the Free World.

The manuscript traces the adoption of balance of power as an animating ideology for U.S. military and defense intellectuals from the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Vietnam War. It examines how the U.S. foreign policy pursuit of international “order” and “stability” paradoxically served as a destabilizing force in the world through the adoption of limited war.

This event is hosted by the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and open to the Yale community. Lunch will be provided. Registered participants will receive the reading materials in advance.