Laura Blanche Jackson Endowed Lectureship in World Issues
Each fall you are invited to return to campus for the Laura Blanche Jackson Endowed Memorial Lectureship in World Issues sponsored by the Honors College and the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core.
2022 Laura Jackson Endowed Lecture:
The Twilight Struggle: What History Can Teach Us About America’s Rivalries with China and Russia Today
About Hal Brands
Hal Brands is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. He is the author or co-author of several books, most recently The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us About Great-Power Rivalry Today, Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China,, and The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order. Hal served as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Strategic Planning from 2015 to 2016. He has also served as lead writer for the Commission on the National Defense Strategy for the United States, and consulted with a range of government offices and agencies in the intelligence and national security communities. He is a member of the State Department Foreign Affairs Policy Board.
Previous lecture presenters include:
- Dr. Hal Brands (2022)
- Dr. Katharine Hayhoe (2021)
- Mr. Victor Boutros (2019)
- Mr. Kenneth M. Pollack (2018)
- Mr. George Walden (2017)
- Professor Timothy Samuel Shah (2016)
- Professor Robert P. George (2015)
- The Honorable Andrew H. Card, Jr. and Mr. Terry Teachout (2014, Lecture held in Spring and Fall)
- Dr. Peter Berkowitz (2013)
- Dr. David M. Lampton (2012)
- Dr. Michael Mandelbaum (2011)
- Dr. George Weigel (2010)
- Dr. Andrew C. Kuchins (2008)
- Dr. Robert J. Lieber(2007)
- Prof. Charles Hill (2006)
- Dr. Harvey Sicherman(2005)
- Dr. Michael Mandelbaum (2004)
- Dr. Beth Dougherty (2003)
- Prof. H. William Brands(2002)
- Mr. Paul Bell (2001)
- Ms. Julianna Lindsey and Dr. Harlan Cleveland (2000)
- Ms. Elena Poniatowska Amor (1999)
- Dr. Grant T. Hammond (1998)
- Dr. Paul Mojzes (1997)
- Dr. Gordon Smith (1996)
- Sir Robert Rhodes James (1995)