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NDISP Henkels Mini-Conference

On April 22-23 NDISP is holding a conference titled "The Influence of Social Science Theory Upon National Security Policy." This first conference will assess and critically evaluate how academics in the past have contributed to national security policy by developing “new theories and models” with an eye toward determining if, when, and how social scientists from a broad range of disciplines were able to participate formulation of American national security policy. The resulting analysis will provide a template for contemporary social scientists’ contributions to national security policy and will inform policy-makers as they “address the complex challenges of the 21st Century.”

Participants include:

Stephen Krasner, Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations and Senior Fellow at the Institute for International Studies

Stephen M. Walt, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government

Marc Trachtenberg, Professor of Political Science at UCLA

Stephen Van Evera, Professor of Political Science at MIT

John Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago

Francis Gavin, founding Director of Studies for the Robert S. Strauss Center and Tom Slick Professor of International Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin

Jeremi Suri, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Director of the European Union Center of Excellence

Keir Lieber, Associate Professor of Political Science at Georgetown University