Thinking Historically: A Guide to Statecraft and Strategy

On Thursday, April 2, the Clements Center for National Security will host Francis Gavin, Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor and Director, Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, SAIS-Johns Hopkins University, for a book talk in his recent release Thinking Historically: A Guide to Statecraft and Strategy. Join us from 2:00 – 3:15 pm in the Flawn Academic Center, Room 430.

Francis J. Gavin is the Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor and the inaugural director of the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS. Previously, he was the first Frank Stanton Chair in Nuclear Security Policy Studies at MIT and the Tom Slick Professor of International Affairs and the Director of the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas. Gavin earned his BA at the University of Chicago in Political Science, a MSt. from Oxford in Modern European History, and a PhD in history from the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a National Security Fellow at the Olin Institute, Harvard University, an International Security Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, a Donald Harrington Faculty Fellow at the University of Texas, a Smith Richardson Junior Faculty Fellow, a Senior Research Fellow at the Nobel Institute, Oslo, Norway, a Public Policy School at the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the Ernest May Senior Visiting Professor in Applied History, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. From 2005 until 2010, he directed The American Assembly’s multiyear, national initiative, The Next Generation Project: U.S. Global Policy and the Future of International Institutions. Gavin is the Co-Founder, Co-Director and Principal Investigator, with James Steinberg, of the Carnegie International Policy Scholars Consortium and Network (IPSCON), and Founder and Director of the Nuclear Studies Research Initiative (NSRI). He is a Research Associate at the Security Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Senior Fellow at the Clements Center for National Security, University of Texas, a Distinguished Scholar, Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, University of Texas, and a Senior Advisor, Nuclear Proliferation International History Project, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC.