Sheena Greitens
I’m delighted to write this introduction as the new editor in chief of the Texas National Security Review. I write this having just returned to the University of Texas at Austin from a conference at the U.S. Army War College, where I am a visiting faculty member working this year on projects related to China and Indo-Pacific security. It’s a privilege that reminds me, on a regular basis, of the stakes of getting major questions of national and international security right — questions that are a big part of the reason I am both excited and daunted to take up this new role with the journal.
A few months ago, TNSR’s board chair, Frank Gavin, wrote an introduction that he titled, “What Exactly Are We Doing?”1 This issue seems like a good time to revisit that question — both in the broader sense of America’s approach to national security after the 2024 election, and in the sense of what the role is for an academic journal like TNSR today.
By the time this issue (7.4) of the Texas National Security Review appears in print, the November 2024 presidential election will have come and gone, and readers in both the United States and worldwide should have more information about where America is headed in its foreign policy and national security strategy for the next four years. (I say “should,” recognizing full well that it can be a foolhardy errand to prognosticate with any degree of confidence in advance of a major, albeit regular, inflection point in American domestic politics and foreign policy.)
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