Defense Strategy and Spending: Resourcing a Return to Great Power Competition

Mackenzie Eaglen, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute

Wednesday, Feb 28, 2018 | 12:15-1:45 PM | SRH 3.122

Please join the Clements Center for a talk with Mackenzie Eaglen on defense strategy and spending. Mackenzie Eaglen is a resident fellow in the Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, where she works on defense strategy, defense budgets, and military readiness. Eaglen has worked on defense issues in the House of Representatives and Senate and at the Pentagon in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and on the Joint Staff. Eaglen is included in Defense News “100 most influential people in US Defense” both years the publication compiled a list.

Foreign Aid and Countering Violent Extremism

Jessica Trisko Darden, Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute

Tuesday, Mar 06, 2018 | 12:15-1:30 PM | SRH 3.122

The Clements Center is honored welcome UT alumna Jessica Trisko Darden back to the Forty Acres for a talk on “Foreign Aid and Countering Violent Extremism.” Dr. Trisko Darden is a Jeane Kirkpatrick fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where her research focuses on US foreign aid policy, specifically the effectiveness of such aid in improving political and human conditions in recipient countries, and the coercive effect of foreign aid, which often allows countries to divert economic assistance to military expenditures. Dr. Trisko Darden is also an assistant professor of international affairs with the School of International Service at American University.