The Rise and Fall of Détente
Friday, November 18, 2016 | 8:15 AM - 5:15 PM | AT&T Conference Center
This conference will be centered around major trends in U.S. policymaking in the mid-1970s and based on scholarly research using the papers of former Deputy Secretary of Defense William P. Clements, Jr. and newly released volumes of the Foreign Relations of the United States series (FRUS). Over the past three years, a team of Clements Center researchers have collected and scanned the official papers documenting Bill Clements’ leadership of the Pentagon as Deputy Secretary of Defense. In partnership with the Briscoe Center for American History, we have made these papers available in a searchable online database that can be found here.
This event is free and open to the public. No registration required. Parking will be available for a fee in the AT&T Conference Center garage.
AGENDA
November 18th, 2016
AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 202
8:15am WELCOME COMMENTS
Geoffrey S. Connor, Director of Strategy, Clements Center for National Security
Mark Lawrence, Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin
Stephen P. Randolph, Historian, U.S. Department of State
8:30-10:00am PANEL 1: ENERGY DEPENDENCY AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
Chair: William Inboden, Executive Director, Clements Center for National Security
Geoff Connor, Director of Strategy, Clements Center for National Security
Adam Howard, General Editor, Foreign Relations of the United States
Daniel Sargent, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley
Salim Yaqub, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
10:30-12:00pm PANEL 2: HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE REMORALIZATION OF FOREIGN POLICY
Chair: Jeremi Suri, Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs, University of Texas at Austin
Kristin Ahlberg, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
Michael Morgan, Assistant Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David Prentice, Instructor, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Oklahoma State University
Sarah B. Snyder, Associate Professor, American University
12:00-1:30pm PLENARY LUNCH (AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 301)
Lunchtime remarks by The Honorable Tom Reed, Former Secretary of the Air Force
Introduction by William Inboden, Executive Director, Clements Center for National Security
1:30-3:00pm PANEL 3: CRISES ON THE PERIPHERY
Chair: Kathleen Britt Rasmussen, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
Myra Burton, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
R. Joseph Parrott, Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University
Stephen P. Randolph, Historian, U.S. Department of State
David Robarge, Chief Historian, Central Intelligence Agency
3:30-5:00pm PANEL 4: ARMS CONTROL AND WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY
Chair: Paul D. Miller, Associate Director, Clements Center for National Security
M. Todd Bennett, Associate Professor of History, East Carolina University
Megan Reiss, PhD Candidate, University of Texas at Austin
Bartholomew Sparrow, Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin
Chris Tudda, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
5:00-5:15pm WRAP-UP COMMENTS
Geoffrey S. Connor, Director of Strategy, Clements Center for National Security
Adam Howard, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
Mark Lawrence, Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin