The Rise and Fall of Détente

Friday, November 18, 2016  |  8:15 AM - 5:15 PM  |  AT&T Conference Center

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This conference will be centered around major trends in U.S. policymaking in the mid-1970s and based on scholarly research using the papers of former Deputy Secretary of Defense William P. Clements, Jr. and newly released volumes of the Foreign Relations of the United States series (FRUS). Over the past three years, a team of Clements Center researchers have collected and scanned the official papers documenting Bill Clements’ leadership of the Pentagon as Deputy Secretary of Defense. In partnership with the Briscoe Center for American History, we have made these papers available in a searchable online database that can be found here.

This event is free and open to the public. No registration required. Parking will be available for a fee in the AT&T Conference Center garage

 

AGENDA

November 18th, 2016

AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 202

8:15am                  WELCOME COMMENTS

                              Geoffrey S. Connor, Director of Strategy, Clements Center for National Security
                              Mark Lawrence, Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin
                              Stephen P. Randolph, Historian, U.S. Department of State

8:30-10:00am        PANEL 1: ENERGY DEPENDENCY AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY

                              Chair: William Inboden, Executive Director, Clements Center for National Security

                              Geoff Connor, Director of Strategy, Clements Center for National Security
                              Adam Howard, General Editor, Foreign Relations of the United States
                              Daniel Sargent, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley
                              Salim Yaqub, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

10:30-12:00pm      PANEL 2: HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE REMORALIZATION OF FOREIGN POLICY

                              Chair: Jeremi Suri, Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs, University of Texas at Austin

                              Kristin Ahlberg, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
                              Michael Morgan, Assistant Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
                              David Prentice, Instructor, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Oklahoma State University
                              Sarah B. Snyder, Associate Professor, American University

12:00-1:30pm        PLENARY LUNCH (AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 301)

                              Lunchtime remarks by The Honorable Tom Reed, Former Secretary of the Air Force

                              Introduction by William Inboden, Executive Director, Clements Center for National Security

1:30-3:00pm         PANEL 3: CRISES ON THE PERIPHERY

                             Chair: Kathleen Britt Rasmussen, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State

                             Myra Burton, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
                             R. Joseph Parrott, Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University
                             Stephen P. Randolph, Historian, U.S. Department of State
                             David Robarge, Chief Historian, Central Intelligence Agency

3:30-5:00pm         PANEL 4: ARMS CONTROL AND WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY

                             Chair: Paul D. Miller, Associate Director, Clements Center for National Security

                             M. Todd Bennett, Associate Professor of History, East Carolina University
                             Megan Reiss, PhD Candidate, University of Texas at Austin
                             Bartholomew Sparrow, Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin
                             Chris Tudda, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State

5:00-5:15pm         WRAP-UP COMMENTS

                             Geoffrey S. Connor, Director of Strategy, Clements Center for National Security
                             Adam Howard, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
                             Mark Lawrence, Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin