On Wednesday, September 22, the  Clements Center for National Security and the UT-Austin History Department will host Christopher Nichols, Adriane Lentz-Smith, Andrew Preston, Charles Edel and Will Inboden for a panel discussion on their new release, "Rethinking American Grand Strategy". Join us on Zoom at 12:15 pm CDT. Virtual doors open at 12:00 pm. Registration is required.

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Christopher McKnight Nichols is the Director of the Center for the Humanities and the Sandy and Elva Sanders Eminent Professor in the Honors College at Oregon State University, where he is an associate professor of history. 

Adriane Lentz-Smith is Associate Professor and Associate Chair in Duke's department of History where she teaches courses on the Civil Rights Movement, Black Lives, Modern America, and History in Fact and Fiction. 

Andrew Preston is Professor of American History and a Fellow of Clare College at Cambridge University. In 2021 he is president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). 

Charles Edel is a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center and a Senior Fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. Dr. Edel’s research and policy expertise is in the politics and security of the Indo-Pacific, U.S. strategy toward the region, American foreign policy, grand strategy, and American political history. 

William Inboden is Executive Director and William Powers, Jr. Chair at the William P. Clements, Jr. Center for National Security at the University of Texas-Austin. He also serves as Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and Editor-in-Chief of the Texas National Security Review.