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JEREMI SURI
The Rise of Security Studies and the Globalization of American Foreign Policy, 1937 to
the Present
Wednesday, April 20, 2016, 12:00PM - 1:30PM
Mershon Center for International Security Studies
1501 Neil Avenue | Room 120 Columbus, Ohio 43201
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Jeremi Suri holds the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of
Texas at Austin, where he has a joint appointment as a professor in the Department of History and the
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. Suri is the author and editor of eight books on international
history, national security, and foreign relations. He has published in leading scholarly journals, including the
American Historical Review, Diplomatic History, International Security, and Journal of Cold War Studies. He
also writes frequently for major newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Foreign Affairs,
Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News, and Wired Magazine.
Suri has received numerous awards for his research and teaching, including being named by Smithsonian as
one of “American top young innovators” and named by Princeton Review as one of America’s “best 300
professors.” Suri has trained Ph.D. students who now hold tenured and tenure-track positions at leading
universities, and he has led a series of highly regarded interdisciplinary programs and centers at the
University of Texas and University of Wisconsin.
Jeremi Suri
Mack Brown Distinguished
Chair for Leadership in
Global Affairs
University of Texas-Austin
Abstract
Although the United States had global trading interests before World War II, American foreign policy was
largely provincial before 1937 – driven by protectionist and particularist impulses. President Franklin
Roosevelt’s “Quarantine speech” in response to fascist threats marked the beginning of sea change in
American thinking about global engagement and international security. The change emerged most immediately in the rise of security
studies as an academic discipline and an influence on strategic planning. This presentation will trace that transformation and assess its
implications for the next 70 years of American global engagement in the Cold War and post-Cold War worlds. The presentation will close
with a discussion of how security studies as a discipline might influence the next generation of American thinkers, citizens, students, and
policy-makers.
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