Duke University Program in
American Grand Strategy
Fall Events 2009
| September 10 |
| John Hillen |
| Grand Strategy and National Security Policy Making |
| 5:30pm, Sanford Building, Rhodes Conference Room |
| September 21 |
| H. R. McMaster |
| Counterinsurgency and the War in Afghanistan |
| 5:30pm, Sanford Building, Room 05 |
| October 1 |
| John Bolton |
| To Be Announced |
| 5:00pm, Duke Law School |
| October 13 |
| Careers in Security Night |
| Featuring recent alumni at Brookings, CIA, SAIC, and the State Department |
| 6:00pm, Von Canon C |
| October 27 |
| Doug Feith |
| Setting the Record Straight: The Legal and Strategic Reasons for the War on Terrorism |
| 5:30pm, Duke Law School, room 3041 |
| October 29 |
| Meghan O’Sullivan |
| The Future of Iraq and Afghanistan |
| 6:15pm, Sanford Building, Room 04 |
| November 9 |
| Fareed Zakaria |
| Rise of the Rest: A Post American World One Year after the Election of Obama |
| 5:30pm, Page Auditorium |
Prior Events
Campaign Debate
Featuring a debate within the Foreign Policy and 2008 Campaign class,
moderated by Pete Wehner and Derek Chollet
October 7, 2008
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Peter Feaver's senior seminar on Foreign Policy and 2008 Campaign featured a debate on the foreign policy position of senator McCain and Senator Obama. The teams were cross-examined by Pete Wehner, a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center who until last year was Karl Rove's deputy at the White House heading the Office of Strategic Initiatives; and Derek Chollet, a Senior Fellow at the Center for New American Security who served as the senior foreign policy advisor to Senator Edward's presidential campaign |
David Sanger
Featuring a discussion by the White House correspondent
for the New York Times on
the "Bush Foreign Policy Legacy"
October 23, 2008
David E. Sanger, the White House correspondent for the New York Times lectured on the "Bush Foreign Policy Legacy". Over the course of the last quarter century, he has reported from New York, Tokyo and Washington, covering a wide variety of issues surrounding foreign policy, globalization, nuclear proliferation, Asian affairs and, for the past five years, the arc of the Bush presidency. He has received numerous awards for journalism, including twice being part of teams that were honored with the Pulitzer Prize.
Kurt Campbell
A discussion by the CEO of the Center for a New American Security on the
strategic challenges facing the Obama administration
November 6, 2008
Kurt Campbell of the Center for a New American Security spoke on the strategic challenges facing the Obama administration. Dr. Campbell was appointed Chief Executive Officer of CNAS in January 2007. He also serves as Director of the Aspen Strategy Group, the Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Washington Quarterly, and is the Founder and Principal of StratAsia, a strategic advisory company focused on Asia. Prior to co-founding CNAS, he served as Senior Vice President, Director of the International Security Program, and the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in National Security Policy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Previously, Dr. Campbell served in several capacities in government, including as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asia and the Pacific, Director on the National Security Council Staff, Deputy Special Counselor to the President for NAFTA, and as a White House fellow at the Department of the Treasury.
Michael Doran and Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Debate
A discussion of U.S. policy towards Iran with the acting Assistant Secretary of State
for Public Diplomacy and the Julius Silver Professor of Politics at NYU
January 15, 2009
Mike Doran (Ph.D. Princeton) is currently the Acting
Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy. Prior to his move to the State Department, he was
the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Support to Public Diplomacy. In that role he was
responsible for advising the Department's senior leadership on policy to support public diplomacy and
strategic communication, and for advocating key themes and messages to promote U.S. national security
interests. From 2005-2007, Doran served as Senior Director for Near East and North African Affairs
at the National Security Council. His portfolio covered all of the countries in the region except for
Iraq.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita (Ph.D. University of Michigan) is the Silver Professor of Politics at New York
University, and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is an expert on international conflict,
foreign policy formation, and nation building. In addition, he founded the company Mesquita
& Roundell,
which specializes on rational choice and game theory computer modeling to make political and foreign
policy forecasts. He is also the director of New York University's Alexander Hamilton Center for
Political Economy and has authored more than one hundred articles and fourteen books on politics. In
1985 De Mesquita won the Karl W. Deutsch Award in International Relations and Peace Research.
Paul Kennedy
Featuring a discussion on how to measuring American power in today's world
March 5, 2009
Paul Kennedy, Director of ISS, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History, and Brady-Johnson Distinguished Fellow in Grand Strategy, coordinates the John M. Olin Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Military History and Strategy and is responsible for the ISS programs funded by the Smith Richardson Foundation. He is internationally known for his writings and commentaries on global political, economic, and strategic issues. He is the author or editor of nineteen books, including The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism, The War Plans of the Great Powers, The Realities Behind Diplomacy, and Preparing for the Twenty-First Century. His best-known work is The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (Random House), which provoked an intense debate on its publication in 1988 and has been translated into over twenty languages.
John Lewis Gaddis
A discussion concerning the definition of grand strategy
February 26, 2009
Professor Gaddis, who received his PhD from the University of
Texas in 1968, has published numerous books, including: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War,
1941-1947 (1972); Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security (1982);
The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War (1987); We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History
(1997); The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past (2002); Surprise, Security, and the American
Experience (2004); and The Cold War: A New History (2006). He is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History
at Yale University and currently teaches courses in Cold War history, grand strategy, international studies,
and biography.
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Stephen Hadley
Discussion on U.S. National Security in the 21st century
March 26, 2009
Stephen Hadley served as the National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush from 2005-2009. Prior to this, he was Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor under Condoleeza Rice. Mr. Hadley had served as a senior foreign and defense policy advisor to Governor Bush during the Presidential Campaign and worked in the Bush-Cheney Transition on the National Security Council. Previous to this position, he was a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Shea & Gardner and a principal in The Scowcroft Group, Inc., an international consulting firm. Before coming to the White House under President Bush, Mr. Hadley had extensive government experience, serving as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy from 1989-1993, as a member of the National Security Council staff under President Ford from 1974-1977, and as an analyst for the Comptroller of the Department of Defense from 1972-1974. Mr. Hadley has been a member of the Department of Defense Policy Board, the National Security Advisory Panel to the Director of Central Intelligence, and the Board of Trustees of Analytical Services, Inc. ("ANSER"). His professional legal practice focused on business problems of U.S. and foreign corporations particularly as they involve international business, regulatory, and strategy issues. He received a BA degree from Cornell University and a law degree from Yale Law School.