Call for Papers for January 2017 Reagan Conference
Apr 13, 2016
The Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin in association with the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, the Department of History and the Department of Government, the LBJ School of Public Affairs, and the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, will host a 3-day conference titled “Ronald Reagan and the Transformation of Global Politics in the 1980s” in January 2017.
This conference will bring together a group of scholars and former policy-makers to undertake a wide-ranging reassessment of U.S. foreign policy and international relations during the Reagan Administration in light of emerging archival resources and declassified documents. Three days of panels, lectures, and conversations will include keynote addresses from H. W. Brands, Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas and author of Reagan: The Life, and Melvyn Leffler, the Edward Stettinius Professor of History at the University of Virginia.
We define national security broadly and encourage topics that integrate domestic politics, cultural relations, transnational and non-state actors, technology, economics, international institutions, and law. Papers could address, inter alia:
- The Middle East
- Latin America
- Africa
- The Atlantic Community
- South and East Asia
- The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
- Global issues (e.g. human rights, cybernetics, finance, counterterrorism, etc.)
- Reagan’s government and national security policy
- Reagan and grand strategy
Please send brief proposals (350 words maximum), accompanied by a CV, to [email protected] by 30 April 2016. Those selected will be informed by early June. Air travel, accommodation, and meals will be provided for participants who do not have their own travel funds.
For more information on the conference, please click here.
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