Event Discription On November 8, CNU's own Dr. Lisa Spiller, professor of marketing in the Joseph W. Luter III School of Business, and Dr. Jeff Bergner, longtime political practitioner and visiting professor of American Studies, discussed how political campaigns use savvy marketing to create perceptions that emotionally and effectively connect with their target audience. For more information on this topic, visit the book's web page, at www.brandingthecandidate.com. The Center for American Studies is grateful to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the TWS Foundation, and the Jack Miller Center for Teaching American's Founding Principles and History for sponsoring this event. Event Description On the occasion of Constitution Day 2011, the Center for American Studies at Christopher Newport University hosted foreign policy expert Robert Kagan of the Brookings Institution for a discussion entitled "The Constitution, War, and Diplomacy." Robert Kagan, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, is an expert and frequent commentator on Egypt, the Middle East, U.S. national security, and U.S.-European relations. He writes a monthly column on world affairs for the Washington Post and is a contributing editor at the Weekly Standard and the New Republic. Prior to Brookings, Kagan spent 13 years as a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From 1984 to 1988, he served as a member of the State Department’s Office of Policy Planning, as principal speechwriter for Secretary of State George Shultz, and as deputy for policy in the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs. Support for this event was provided by the Jack Miller Center, TWS Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Dr. Lisa Spiller & Dr. Jeff Bergner discuss Branding the Candidate: Marketing Strategies to Win Your Vote
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Robert Kagan on the Constitution, War, and Diplomacy
September 12, 2011
Download the audio recording of Robert Kagan's talk on "The Constitution, War, and Diplomacy." Introduction by Dr. Jeffrey Bergner of CNU. Recorded on 9/12/2011 at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, VA. Length: 54:17.
Those Americans who lent their support to the Constitution and the federal government after 1787 did so in part because they believed their interests in territorial expansion and overseas commerce would be better served,” wrote Kagan in his 2006 book Dangerous Nation. Those Americans have been proven right. But what does this mean for the Constitution, and for the United States and its citizens?
Kagan is a prolific author on U.S. foreign policy issues. His most recent book is The Return of History and the End of Dreams (Knopf, 2008). His previous book, Dangerous Nation: America’s Place in the World from its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the 20th Century (Knopf, 2006), was the winner of the 2008 Lepgold Prize and a 2007 Finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize. His book, Of Paradise and Power (Knopf, 2003), was a New York Times bestseller, and a bestseller in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, and Canada.
On more than one occasion, Kagan has been named one of Foreign Policy magazine's "Top 100 Global Thinkers."
