Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy

The Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale University addresses large-scale, long-term strategic challenges of statecraft, politics, and social change.

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We're back!

The GS program will kick off its fall slate of events Monday, Sept. 8, with a conversation on U.S. foreign policy with former national security advisors @RebeccaLisner and @PhilGordonDC.

Learn more and register: https://t.co/n91HJKPW2j

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Charles Bégué Fawell, Postdoctoral Fellow in Maritime and Naval Affairs, was selected as this year’s Sherman Emerging Scholar through a national competition hosted by @UNCWilmington. He will present a lecture in October that engages with this year's theme, Oceans and Waterways.

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Congratulations to former GS student and recent @Yale grad Georgette Uwera Nyiraneza who received the Edwin H. Sherman Prize for Undergraduate Scholarship in Force and Diplomacy, for her paper “Abolition, Development, and the Sub-Saharan African Spring.”

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Congratulations to visiting research scholar Natalie Shibley, who has won the Society for History in the Federal Government Prize for her article, "Policing Venereal Disease at Fort Huachuca, 1941-1945." @SMH_Historians

More: https://t.co/jgFsuK4aYZ

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We had a great time running a simulation with the students from the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs (@JacksonYale)!

Learn more about CFR Education simulations: https://t.co/jqsl5hfvZB

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Maritime and Naval Affairs postdoc Charles Bégué Fawell won the 2025 article prize from the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes for "Effervescent Seas: Racialized Labor and Mobile Militancy on the Steamship Highways of the French Indo-Pacific."

Read the paper: https://t.co/TLAzkKXxBo

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On Monday, April 21, the Grand Strategy program will host a conversation with Christine Fox, former acting Deputy Secretary of Defense, on technological innovation and defense modernization in a changing world, moderated by @kmocon.

More: https://t.co/sjqEeo0Fw8

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The American Council of Learned Societies has named postdoc Nataliia Laas as one of its 2025 ACLS Fellows, a prestigious recognition of excellence in humanities and social sciences research.

Learn more: https://t.co/rXcqidKGKi

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Tomorrow, April 16, the Grand Strategy program will continue its spring Book Series with Marc-William Palen, who will discuss his new book, "Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World."

More: https://t.co/HmOCM3k4fu

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Tomorrow, April 15, we continue our spring colloquium series with political scientist Anatoly Levshin of @BelferCenter. Co-sponsored by @YaleMacmillan.

More: https://t.co/zLo13hmuZh

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I had a wonderful time speaking about all things food, empire, culture, and taste at this wonderful event organized by @GSYale @JacksonYale!

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Our Colloquium series continues Tuesday, April 8, with Charles Fawell, @Yale postdoc in maritime and naval affairs, on state-backed shipping corporations supporting European imperialism in the Indo-Pacific in the 19th and 20th centuries.

More: https://t.co/7KDad2QUFX

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The first day of the Recipes for Resilience conference wraps up with a keynote by David Beasley, former executive director of @WFP, in conversation with our own @RoryStewartUK.

Learn more about the conference: https://t.co/JRRmM245Sp

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The Recipes for Resilience conference is ready to begin!

Learn more about the two-day event exploring the critical issues shaping global food systems: https://t.co/JRRmM245Sp

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On Monday, April 7, the Grand Strategy program will host a conversation on U.S.-China competition and Indo-Pacific security with political scientist @RushDoshi of @CFR_org and @georgetownsfs.

More: https://t.co/fdtRJv4mzf

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Our Colloquium series enters its final month with a presentation from postdoc @MattieCWebb on Tuesday, April 1. She will present “Economic Sanctions Revisited: The Case of South Africa.”

More: https://t.co/8Mdn619oII

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Our semester-long Book Series continues Thursday, March 27, with @Penn political scientist Fiona Cunningham. She will discuss her new book, "Under the Nuclear Shadow: China’s Information-Age Weapons in International Security."

More: https://t.co/FdK3w8hoJ6

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On April 1-2, the Grand Strategy program will host a two-day conference, Recipes in Resilience, which will bring together scholars, practitioners, and leaders to explore the critical issues shaping global food systems.

Learn more: https://t.co/JRRmM245Sp

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Returning from spring break, our Colloquium series continues Tuesday, March 25, with a presentation from postdoc @DanielChardell, “Let my People Go—Where? Soviet Jewish Emigration and the End of the Cold War in the Middle East.”

More: https://t.co/CvGkdJ6kKu

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On Monday, March 24, the Grand Strategy program will host a roundtable discussion on U.S. foreign policy, featuring experts @AKendallTaylor, @elyratner, and Celeste Wallander.

More: https://t.co/MNl12UaV1m