2/20/2012 || McGaw Chapel, 340 East University, Wooster

Walter Russell Mead

American Grand Strategy in the 21st Century

Walter Russell Mead is the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College, Editor-at-Large of The American Interest magazine, the Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004) and God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World (Alfred A. Knopf, 2007). He is widely regarded as one of the country’s leading students of American foreign policy. He is a regular contributor on international affairs to The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, Washington Post, New Yorker, Harper’s, and several other leading periodicals.