Videos and Pictures Brief Agenda
2009
The TISS Fiftieth Anniversary Conference
American Grand Strategy after War
Date: Thursday, February 26 through Saturday, February 28th
Purpose: To examine debates on national strategy after major wars.
Cosponsors: US Army War College, Duke University's Program in American Grand Strategy and the Von der Heyden Lectures, Alston Gardner, Warren Wickersham, and Roger Hertog.
2008
Global Security
William Perry and Panelists (Fall)
Zbigniew Brzezinksi
2007
"Global Climate Change: National Security Implications
Date: Friday, March 30th and Saturday, March 31st, 2007
Place: Friday Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Purpose: To analyze global climate change as a national security issue
Cosponsors: US Army War College, Creative Associates, Nicholas School, Woodrow Wilson School and UNC- Environmental Studies
2006
“Casualties and Warfare."
Date: Friday, February 17 and Saturday, February 18, 2006.
Place: Thomas Center, Durham, North Carolina.
Purpose: To address the causes and consequences of casualties in warfare from a variety of perspectives.
Cosponsor: Carnegie Corporation of New York.
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2005
“The Rise and Fall of Empires.”
Date: Friday, March 4 and Saturday, March 5, 2005.
Place: Friday Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Purpose: To bring historical cases to bear on the question of whether or not the United States has become an empire.
Cosponsor: The US Army War College.
“Agenda for Strategy and Policy Planning.”
Date: Monday, February 14 and Tuesday, February 15, 2005.
Place: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC
Purpose: A workshop to address the challenges of mid-to-long-range planning at the start of the Bush Administration’s second term.
Cosponsors: Duke University Sanford Institute for Public Policy, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
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2004
“Japanese Civil-Military Relations.”
Date: Friday, April 2, 2004.
Place: Millennium Hotel, Durham, North Carolina.
Purpose: Organizational Workshop. Participants: Peter Feaver, Duke University.
Cosponsors: Shibusawa Ei’ichi Memorial Foundation, Japan.
“Wielding American Power.”
Date: Friday, February 6 and Saturday, February 7, 2004.
Place: Thomas Center, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
Purpose: To discuss the scope and limits of American power and provide feedback to scholars researching this issue.
Cosponsors: Sanford Institute for Public Policy, Duke University.
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2003
Monograph Brief Proceedings Agenda
“Strategic Deception in Modern Democracies:
Ethical, Legal, and Policy Challenges.”
Date: Friday, October 31, and Saturday, November 1, 2003.
Place: Friday Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Purpose: To address the ethical, legal, and policy challenges which arise when democratic governments use deception either in a recognized state of armed conflict or in a war against terrorism.
Cosponsors: U.S. Army War College and U.S. Naval Academy.
"The American Media and Wartime Challenges."
Date: Friday, March 21 and Saturday, March 22, 2003
Place: Friday Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Purpose: To examine the challenges facing the American media in wartime
Cosponsors: Duke (De Witt Wallace Center for Communications and Journalism, The University Center for International Studies, European Studies, and the Office of the Vice Provost); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (University Center for International Studies); and North Carolina State University (Department of Communications).
“Evaluating the Preemption Doctrine.”
Date: January 17, 2003.
Place: Siena Hotel, Chapel Hill.
Purpose: To discuss the pros and cons of the Bush Preemption Doctrine and provide feedback to scholars researching this issue.
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2002
"Terrorism: Threat and Response."
Date: February 27 and February 28, 2002.
Place: Friday Center, Chapel Hill.
Purpose: To bring together professionals from the academic and defense communities to clarify the nature and causes of terrrism and debate our strategic options. Cosponsors: U.S. Army War College, Duke’s Center for International Studies, Duke's Center for European Studies and UNC’s University Center for International Studies.
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2001
"The Rise of China: Security Implications."
Date: Friday, March 2 and Saturday, March 3, 2001.
Place: Sheraton Hotel, Chapel Hill.
Purpose: To examine the security implications of the rise of China for the international community in general and for the United States in particular.
Cosponsors: The US Army War College and the Duke University Program in Asian Security Studies.
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2000
"Transnational Threats: Blending Law Enforcement and Military Strategies."
Date: Wednesday, February 2 and Thursday, February 3, 2000.
Place: Sheraton Hotel, Chapel Hill.
Purpose: In the post-Cold War environment, transnational threats pose unprecedented challenges to U.S. security. The purpose of this conference was to define these threats and consider how law enforcement and military strategies can best be integrated in order to address the threat.
Cosponsors: The US Army War College and the Duke University Center for Law, Ethics, and National Security.
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