We invite you to join the National Association of Scholars on Friday, February 6, at 2pm ET for "Two Centuries Later: The Monroe Doctrine and American National Security in the 21st Century" a discussion which will center around the Monroe Doctrine and what it means for American policy two hundred years later. We also invite you to join us on Tuesday, February 17, at 6 pm ET either in person or in the virtual audience for the launch of our latest science report, "Rescuing Science: Restoring Science as Civic Virtue."

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Join the National Association of Scholars for "Two Centuries Later: The Monroe Doctrine and American National Security in the 21st Century" on Friday, February 6, at 2 pm ET.

For over 200 years, American policy in the Western hemisphere has been informed by the policy laid out in James Monroe's 1823 address to Congress that the United States would not tolerate the attempted control by European nations of countries or territories within the United States' sphere of influence. Since that day, the policy has been invoked to cover French intervention in Mexico, European intervention in Latin America, and the Soviet Union's building of missile sites in Cuba. With the recent U.S. intervention in Venezuela, as well as the administration's claims surrounding the threat posed by Russia and China to Greenland, the Monroe Doctrine is of renewed interest to the public.
 

How relevant is the Monroe Doctrine is to what's happening in our hemisphere today? How did the public response in Monroe's time inform the development of this idea? And how this policy has been interpreted and born out throughout our history? Join the National Association of Scholars (NAS) as we explore these ideas and more.
 

This event will feature Dr. John Grant, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Politics at Hillsdale College. He is the author of Theodore Roosevelt, Imperial Uplift, and the Transformation of American Foreign Policy, forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press; Dr. Jay Sexton, the Rich and Nancy Kinder Chair in Constitutional Democracy and Professor of History at the University of Missouri, where he also Directs the Kinder Institute, he is also the author of several books and numerous journal articles, including The Monroe Doctrine: Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America; and “The Monroe Doctrine in an Age of Global History” (Diplomatic History, 2023); and Dr. J. Mike Waller, a journalist and investigative writer on national security affairs, he is also the author of several books on security, terrorism and political warfare, and he serves as an editorial Board Member at NATO Defence Strategic Communications Journal. Dr. Waller is a regular lecturer for the National Defense University and the National Intelligence University, and was the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Professor of International Communication at the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C. for 13 years.
 

This event will be moderated by Dr. Lilla Nora Kiss, the Senior Fellow for International Affairs and Academic Integrity at the NAS.
 

If you would like to learn more and RSVP for the event, you can click here.

Join the National Association of Scholars either in person or in the virtual audience for "Rescuing Science: Restoring Science as Civic Virtue" on Tuesday, February 17, at 6 pm ET.

American science is in deep trouble, beset by multiple plagues including the irreproducibility crisis, doubts about academic integrity, turmoil over government funding, and a general erosion of public trust. It’s vital to our society, our prosperity, and our security that we reverse course and restore science to its potential and promise. But how? To rescue science, we need to understand how science got to its present state. Only then can we formulate a rescue plan.
 

Turner’s report outlines the historical background of science’s current crisis, and presents a series of recommendations for restoring the intellectual autonomy and freedom that is essential for what science provides to our culture.
 

This event will feature J. Scott Turner, NAS Director of Science Programs and report author; Terence Kealey, Chancellor Emeritus of the University of Buckingham (UK); Geoff Horsman, Associate Professor of Biology at Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada). This event will be moderated by Jason Locasale, an independent cancer researcher.
 

If you would like to learn more and RSVP for the event, you can click here.

If you have missed any of our past events or webinars, you may find all of our recordings here: https://www.youtube.com/@NAScholars/streams.

I look forward to seeing you in the audience!
 

Best,
Chance Layton
Director of Communications
National Association of Scholars