• Presentation: “Evaluating Regime Change and Its Alternatives,” Defense Priorities, U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, June 2018 [with LTC, Daniel L. Davis, USA(r)].
  

• Presentation: Realistic Foreign Policy Working Group, Rayburn House Office Building, June 2018. Presentation: “The Beltway and the Ivory Tower: Bridging the Gap,” New America Foundation, Washington, DC, June 2018 [with Susan Peterson, Peter Campbell, and Paul Avey].
  

• Debate: “Nuclear Disarmament: A Catholic Imperative?” Notre Dame International Security Center, Notre Dame, IN April 2018 [with John Finnis].
  

• Convention: International Studies Association, Baltimore, MD, April 2018. Roundtable: "Intellectual Diversity in Academia," Participant.

• Talk: “Could Less Be More? Restraint as a Better Approach to the Middle East for America,” Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, April 2018. 
  

• Conference: “Bridging Asia: Double Down or Come Home? American Grand Strategy and East Asia in the 21st Century,” USC Center for International Studies, American Grand Strategy and Program and the Center for Peace and Security Studies, UC San Diego, Los Angeles, CA March 2018. Commentator.

• Keynote Address: “The Paradox of America’s Liberal Militarism,” 4th Conference of the Association of Civil-Military Studies, Kinneret College, Lake of Galilee, Israel, February 2018.

2018 Conferences, Seminars and Public Talks

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