A Project on Managing the Atom (MTA) seminar with Caitlin Talmadge, Associate Professor of Security Studies in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and Brendan Green, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati.

This seminar will offer a theory explaining variation in American commitments based on two variables: the character of American liberalism at home and the balance of power overseas. Different types of liberal preferences interact with different power configurations to produce distinct grand strategies. After outlining this theory, Mr. Green will then apply it to an under-theorized case of strategic change: the transition in American Cold War Grand Strategy between the Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy administrations.

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.

Why did America's grand strategy towards Europe vary so erratically during the 20th century? That is, why did its fundamental alliance and military commitments oscillate between isolation and great power war in the first half of the century, while evincing a steady increase in internationalist engagement from the later half of the Cold War to the present? 

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.