“As they build on their 2022 congressional victories and eye a return to the White House in 2024, Republicans would do well to look to President Ronald Reagan’s legacy as a lodestar.” AWC Principal at the Clements Center for National Security, Dr. Will Inboden, recently published an article in Foreign Affairs entitled, “The Fight for the Future…
Recognizing the importance of building and nurturing a sense of community among fellows, AWC hosted the 2022 Fall Fellows Summit in Durham, North Carolina, from October 19-21, 2022. The Summit was an opportunity for current fellows to meet in person and engage in activities organized by the AWC fellows at Duke. The Fall Fellows Summit…
AWC Postdoctoral Fellow Ayumi Teraoka sat down with the Center for Advanced China Research for an interview “about how evolving strategic concerns, legal considerations, and domestic political factors affect Japan’s defense policy and alliance with the United States.” The interview was originally published on Tuesday, October 4, 2022, and can be read in full here….
“We are in an exceptionally challenging civil-military environment. Many of the factors that shape civil-military relations have undergone extreme strain in recent years.” These are the introductory lines to an open letter entitled, “To Support and Defend: Principles of Civilian Control and Best Practices of Civil-Military Relations,” and published by War on the Rocks on…
Dr. Feaver was named a 2021 winner of the Morris Janowitz Career Achievement Award The Morris Janowitz Career Achievement Award is awarded by the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society to a limited number of senior scholars whose careers most demonstrate excellence in the study of armed forces and society and important service to…
Dr. Myrick has won the 2022 John McCain Dissertation Award This is awarded annually by the Munich Security Conference for exceptional academic contributions in the field of political science, history, or policy analysis with an emphasis on transatlantic relations — including its security, technological, political, trade and financial, social and cultural dimensions. Munich Security Conference…
The conference explored pressing topics related to the multi-faceted nature of American grand strategy. These topics included: What’s Next in Ukraine?, the Future of Democracy at Home and Abroad, Great Power Conflict, and U.S. Military Strategy and Reform. America is dually encountering a domestic partisan divide and rising tensions in foreign arenas. For America to…
By: Tyler Bowen (Ph.D., Yale University, 2021) My time as an America in the World Consortium (AWC) postdoctoral fellow has helped me advance my work and develop my skills as a scholar. The most recent example of this was the practice “job talk” that I gave in the “Works in Progress” workshop. My job talk is based off my…
Uncertainty: The Indo-Pacific Region and American Foreign Policy THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN – FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2022 The America in the World Consortium invites students, scholars, and policy practitioners received proposals in the fall of 2021 for a one-day conference on issues facing the Indo-Pacific region and its role in American foreign policy…
“It’s no longer debatable that the United States and China, tacit allies during the last half of the last Cold War, are entering their own new cold war: Chinese President Xi Jinping has declared it, and a rare bipartisan consensus in the United States has accepted the challenge,” write Hal Brands and John Lewis Gaddis…