2009 Programs  

   

 

The Triangle Institute for Security Studies and the Duke University Program in American Grand Strategy are pleased to announce its upcoming fall events schedule.  All of the following are public talks unless otherwise specified.  Many of the visitors listed will be partaking in smaller group seminars and gatherings.  If you are interested finding out about any of these, please contact Nicole McWhirter at nicole.mcwhirter@duke.edu.

 

September 10th

@ 5:30pm

John Hillen

former Assistant Secretary of State

Grand Strategy and National Security Policy Making

Rhodes Conference Room

Sanford Building

 

September 11th-12th

 

 

TISS 10th Annual New Faces Conference

 

Registration is now available online.

 

Friday Center

September 21st

@ 6:15 pm

Brigadier General

H.R. McMaster

Counterinsurgency and the

War in Afghanistan

 

Room 05

Sanford Building

October 1st

@ 5:00pm

John Bolton*

former US Ambassador to the United Nations

Duke Law School

October 13th

@ TBD

 

Careers in Security Night

 

featuring recent Duke alumni in the field of national security

 

TBD

October 27th

@ 5:30pm

Doug Feith**

former Undersecretary of Defense

Setting the Record Straight:

The legal and strategic reasons for the war on terrorism

Duke Law School

October 29th

@ 6:30pm

Meghan O’Sullivan

former Deputy National Security Adviser

The Future of Iraq and Afghanistan

Room 05

Sanford Building

November 5th

@ 7:30pm

Navin Bapat

Assistant Professor,

UNC-CH

State Support for Insurgency and the Strategy of Weakness

Friday Center

November 9th

@ 5:30pm

Fareed Zakaria***

 

Rise of the Rest:  A post American world one year after the election of Obama

 

Page Auditorium

November 20th-22nd

 

 Annual Conference of the Peace Science Society

 

Advanced registration is now available online

 

The Franklin Hotel

 

 

*Mr. Bolton’s appearance is made possible by the Duke University Federalist Society.  AGS is co-sponsoring this event.

** Mr. Feith’s appearance is made possible by the Duke Federalist Society.  Along with the American Constitution Society, AGS is co-sponsoring the event.

***Mr. Zakaria’s appearance is generously sponsored by the Katherine and S. Davis Phillips Family Endowment Fund, the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs, The Sanford School of Public Policy and the Program in American Grand Strategy.  This event serves as one of the Sanford School’s inaugural year events.

The Bapat talk was scheduled for November 5th but is being rescheduled because of a conflict with another program at Duke.