Miller & Martin Mornings | The Miller Center Presents "Getting In, Getting Out: The Politics of Military Intervention"
April 25, 2024
Getting In, Getting Out: The Politics of Military Intervention
In a world where armed conflict seems to be on the rise, and in the context of unique Presidential election dynamics, business leaders are left to wonder how electoral and legislative considerations regularly affect U.S. foreign relations, or whether politics really stops at the water’s edge. Please join us for a conversation with Dr. Marc Selverstone, Director and Professor of Presidential Studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, in which he draws on historical examples, including in his own writing on Vietnam, to explore the push and pull of domestic concerns in formulating American policy abroad.
Date: Thursday, April 25, 2024
Location: Miller & Martin PLLC | Volunteer Building Suite 1200, 832 Georgia Avenue, Chattanooga, TN 37402-2289
Time: Registration & Breakfast: 8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. | Presentation: 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. | Networking: 9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
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Meet the Speaker
Marc Selverstone | Director and Professor of Presidential Studies/Co-Chair of the Center’s Presidential Recordings Program, University of Virginia/Miller Center Expert
Mr. Selverstone earned a BA in philosophy from Trinity College (CT), an MA in international affairs from Columbia University, and a PhD in history from Ohio University. A historian of the Cold War, he is the author of The Kennedy Withdrawal: Camelot and the American Commitment to Vietnam (Harvard) and Constructing the Monolith: The United States, Great Britain, and International Communism, 1945-1950 (Harvard), which won the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. As chair of the Recordings Program, Selverstone edits the Secret White House Tapes of Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon. He is the general editor of The Presidential Recordings Digital Edition, the primary online portal for transcripts of the tapes, published by the University of Virginia Press. Click here to learn more.
About the Miller Center
The Miller Center is a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia that specializes in presidential scholarship, public policy, and political history. The center injects its scholarship and recommendations inside Washington, DC directly to the nation's leaders. Founded in 1975 through the philanthropy of Burkett Miller, a 1914 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and former Miller & Martin partner, the center fosters civil and intellectual dialogue among diverse scholars, politicians, journalists, and citizens. The Miller Center believes that opposing positions can both have merit and that investigating questions of fact and discussing questions of opinion can lead to enlightened and beneficial compromise and public policy.
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