Weapons of Terror, Weapons of Peace: Nuclear Policies & Politics since the Cold War

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FRANCIS J. GAVIN is Director of the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and is the first Tom Slick Professor of International Affairs, at Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. Gavin’s teaching and research interests focus on U.S. foreign policy, global governance, national security affairs, nuclear strategy and arms control, presidential policymaking and the history of international monetary relations.  Previously, he was an Olin National Security Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs, an International Security Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a Research Fellow at the Miller Center for Public Affairs, where he started “The Presidency and Economic Policy Program.” His book, Gold, Dollars, and Power: The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958-1971, was published in 2004 by the University of North Carolina Press under their New Cold War History Series. RSVP required to 434.243.8726 or gage@virginia.edu.