"American Foreign Policy in a New Era of Geopolitical Competition" A Conversation with Walter Mead

Please join the American Grand Strategy Program and the Triangle Institute for Security Studies in welcoming Walter Russell Mead for a public talk titled, "American Foreign Policy in a New Era of Geopolitical Competition." The talk will take place on Monday, October 26th at 6:00pm in Sanford 03 and is free and open to the public. Walter Russell Mead is the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College, the Distinguished Scholar in American Strategy and Statesmanship at the Hudson Institute, and Editor-at-Large of The American Interest. From 1997 to 2010, Mr. Mead was a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, serving as the Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy from 2003 until his departure.His book, "Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World" (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), was widely hailed by reviewers, historians, and diplomats as an important study that will change the way Americans and others think about American foreign policy. Among several honors and prizes, Special Providence received the Lionel Gelber Award for best book in English on international relations in 2002. In 2012, the Foreign Policy Research Institute awarded him its Benjamin Franklin Prize for his work in the field of American foreign policy.