Government Studies

The Preamble of the Constitution gives paramount importance to the federal government to “provide for the common defense.” Yet, there is a growing misconception that — Read more

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Controversy has swirled around the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act since it passed mark-up as an amendment to the House version of the National Defense Authorization Act — Read more

Featuring Andrew W. Markley, J.D. Chair and Professor, Department — Read more

Join us for this special screening and a conversation with David Satter, author of Age of Delirium, the book — Read more

On June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan delivered remarks at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin – a city — Read more

The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 prohibited the United States and the Soviet Union from testing or deploying national missile defense systems. Three months after — Read more

Jeane Kirkpatrick became an iconic figure in the 1980s as Ronald Reagan’s United Nations Ambassador and the most forceful — Read more

For most of his professional career as a pre-eminent development economist teaching at Oxford and University College, Deepak Lal — Read more

In Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War, Nicholas Sarantakes offers a diplomatic history — Read more