The graduate Student council and the
Transdisciplinary Studies Program
are pleased to announce the Second Annual 

                     Transdisciplinary Student  Conference                       

"WAR, CONFLICT, AND RESOLUTION"

                    
Keynote Speaker Carnes Lord of the U.S. Naval War College

"Two if By Sea": Why America Needs to Rediscover Its Navy

Thursday April 16, 2009

5:00-6:00PM

Harper Hall Board of Trustees Room


Carnes Lord, Professor of Military and Naval Strategy in the Strategic Research Department of the Center for Naval Warfare Studies at the U.S. Naval War College, is a political scientist specializing in international and strategic studies and national security organization and management. He has held a number of positions in the U.S. government, including director of international communications and information policy on the National Security Council staff (1981-83), assistant to the vice president for national security affairs (1989-91), and distinguished fellow at the National Defense University (1991-93). Dr. Lord has taught political science at Yale University, the University of Virginia, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and was director of international studies at the National Institute for Public Policy. He is the author among other works of The Presidency and the Management of National Security (1988) and The Modern Prince (2003).