What is Grand Strategy?

The Karl von der Heyden Distinguished Lecture

by John Lewis Gaddis

John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. He is a noted historian of the Cold War and grand strategy.  He is a 2005 National Humanities Medal Recipient.

Gaddis is best known for his critical analysis of the strategies of containment employed by the United States during the Vietnam War, and for arguing that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's personality and role in history was one of the most important causes of the Cold War.

He received his doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin, where he worked under Robert Divine. He has taught at the Naval War College and at Ohio University, where he founded and directed the Contemporary History Institute. At Yale, he co-teaches the elite leadership course, Studies in Grand Strategy, and his ever-popular course on the History of the Cold War.

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

5:30pm

Fleishman Commons, Terry Sanford Institute for Public Policy, Duke University

This event is open to the public.

For more information contact Nicole McWhirter, nm57@duke.edu.