Duke University Program in
American Grand Strategy
Spring Events 2011
| January 18 |
| Farah Pandith |
| "Muslim Engagement and U.S. Foreign Policy in the 21st Century" |
| January 25 |
| Charles Kupchan |
| "How Enemies Become Friends" |
| 12:00 noon, Duke Law School |
| February 28 |
| Deputy Secretary of State, James B. Steinberg |
| 5:30pm Lecture, Fleishman Commons, Sanford School of Public Policy |
Fall Events 2010
| September 6 |
| AGS Ice Cream Social |
| Come learn more about the AGS Council and Events...and enjoy some Ben and Jerry's ice cream, of course |
| 5:00-6:30pm, Gothic Reading Room, Perkins Library |
| September 7 |
| Richard Danzig |
| "Since We Can't See the Future, What Do We Do?" |
| 5:30pm Reception, 6:00pm Lecture, Sanford 05 |
| September 29 |
| Ambassador Davis S. Phillips
Distinguished Lecture Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates |
| 5:00pm, Reynolds Industries Theatre, Bryan Center |
| October 19 |
| Brown bag lunch with Robert Patman |
| Strategic Shortfall: The Somalia Syndrome and the March to 9/11 |
| Time TBD, Breedlove Reading Room, Perkins Library |
| October 19 |
| AGS Career Night |
| 6:00pm, Location TBD |
| October 27 |
| Bob Woodward |
| Mr. Woodward will discuss the foreign policy aspects of his new book |
| 6:00pm, Fleishman Commons, Sanford School of Public Policy |
| November 18 |
| Eric Edelman |
| "Understanding America's Contested International Primacy" |
| 6:00 pm, Sanford School of Public Policy 04 |
| December 1 |
| Shireen Hunter |
| “The Perils of Using Islam as an Instrument of Foreign Policy” |
| 11:30am, Rhodes Conference Room,
Sanford School of Public Policy Lunch will be provided |
Fall Events 2009
| January 25 |
| Stephen Stedman |
| Building International Order in an Era of Transnational Threats |
| 5:30pm, Sanford School of Public Policy Room 223 |
| January 29 |
| Frank Biess |
| Moral Panic in Postwar Germany: The Abduction of Young Germans into the French Foreign Legion |
| 4:00pm, Carr Building Room 229 |
| February 11 |
| Mahmood Mamdani |
| Obama and Middle Eastern Policy |
| To Be Determined |
| February 22 |
| William Burns |
| Foreign Policy Challenges Facing America in the Contemporary Era |
| 5:30pm, Public Polic Room TBA |
| Feburary 26 |
| Steven A. LeBlanc |
| Pervasive, Deadly, and Rational: Prehistoric Warfare and its Relevance Today |
| 4:00pm, Carr Building Room 229 |
| March 16 |
| Elliott Abrams |
| Obama and Middle Eastern Policy |
| Sanford School of Public Policy |
| March 19 |
| Julia Osman |
| The Arsenal of Revolution: Military Reform and the Emergence of the Citizen Warrior in France 1787-1790 |
| 4:00pm, Carr Building Room 229 |
| March 29 |
| Joseph Nye |
| Soft Power and Obama’s Grand Strategy |
| Sanford School of Public Policy |
| April 8-9 |
| TISS Conference |
| War and Military Operations in the Twenty First Century: Civil Military Implications |
| Hyde Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill |
| April 16 |
| Robert Brigham |
| Counterinsurgency and Human Rights in Iraq |
| 4:00pm, Carr Building Room 229 |
| April 17 |
| American Grand Strategy Council |
| Staff Ride |
| Cowpens National Battlefield Chesnee, SC |
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
 |
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
The Bush Foreign Policy Legacy
October 23, 2008
David E. Sanger is the White House correspondent for the New York Times. 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 Bush presidency. He has received numerous awards for journalism, including twice being part of teams that were honored with the Pulitzer Prize.
Kurt Campbell
The Strategic Challenges Facing the Obama Aadministration
November 6, 2008
Kurt Campbell of the Center for a New American Security was appointed CEO 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.
Michael Doran and Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Debate
U.S. Policy Towards Iran
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. 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 founded
the company Mesquita & Roundell, which specializes in rational choice and game theory computer modeling to make political and foreign
policy forecasts. He is also director of New York University's Alexander Hamilton Center for
Political Economy and won the Karl W. Deutsch Award in International Relations and Peace Research
in 1985.
John Lewis Gaddis
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 a number on
the Cold War. 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.
Link to His Paper on What is Grand Strategy
Paul Kennedy
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 the author or editor of nineteen books, and his best-known work is The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, which has been translated into over twenty languages.
Stephen Hadley
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. Previous to his work with the Bush administration, he was a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Shea and Gardner and a principal in The Scowcroft Group, Inc. 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.
John Hillen
Grand Strategy and National Security Policy Making
September 10, 2009
Dr. John Hillen is the CEO of Global Strategies Group (North America), Inc. From 2005 – 2007, Dr. Hillen served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs in the Bush administration.
During his time at State he created and led the interagency effort to formulate a whole-of-government doctrine for the civilian role in counter-insurgency operations. He also created and led the Gulf Security Dialogue, an interagency initiative designed to strengthen strategic relationships between the US and allies in the Arabian Gulf region. An Army veteran, Hillen was a reconnaissance and special operations officer in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
General H. R. McMaster
Counterinsurgency and the War in Afghanistan
September 21, 2009
Gen. McMaster has served as the head of General David Petraeus' "Council of Colonels" assessing U.S. Iraq strategy, was in charge of the recent reviews of U.S. Afghanistan policy, and helped pacify the Iraqi city of Tal Afar in what is considered to be a highly successful counterinsurgency operation. General McMaster currently directs the Concept Development and Experimentation Section at the Army Capabilities Integration Center. In addition, he has written
the highly-acclaimed book on U.S. Civil-Military Relations Dereliction of Duty.
John Bolton
Obama's New International Order
October 1, 2009
John R. Bolton, a
diplomat and a lawyer, has spent many years in public service. From
2005-2006, he served as the U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations. From 2001-2005, he was under secretary of state for arms control and international security. Prior to his service in the State Department, Ambassador Bolton was a senior vice president at the American Enterprise Institute and an assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice.
Meghan O'Sullivan
The Future of Iraq and Afghanistan
October 29, 2009
Dr. Sullivan served on the National Security Council as Special Advisor to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan from 2004-2007. She also worked for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, in Policy Planning at the State Department, and as a fellow at the Brookings Institute. Dr. Sullivan is the author of
Shrew Sanctions: Statecraft and State Sponsors of Terrorism
and is a professor at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Doug Feith
Setting the Record Straight: The Legal and Strategic Reasons for the War on Terrorism
October 27, 2009
Douglas J. Feith is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for National Security Strategies at the Hudson Institute. As Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from 2001-2005, he helped devise the U.S. government's strategy for the war on terrorism and contributed to policy making for the Afghanistan and Iraq campaigns. Mr. Feith advised President Bush and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld on the range of national security issues, including the nuclear programs of North Korea and Iran, the counter-insurgency in Colombia and Palestinian-Israeli peace diplomacy.