SMU News Military drones and autonomous weapons focus of experts’ talk at SMU March 3 DALLAS (SMU) – Lethal autonomous weapons systems, a.k.a. “killer robots,” were once the stuff of sci-fi thrillers. But technological advancements in unmanned weaponry (like drones) have created some very real strategic, legal and ethical dilemmas for policymakers and military/government leaders. […]
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WFAA-8 Originally Posted: February 21, 2016 [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78rm_9nsb6U[/youtube] There will be more than candidates on the Texas March 1 primary ballots. Victoria Farrar-Myers, director of the Tower Scholars Program at SMU, talks about referendums and propositions the political parties have included.
The Leader Originally Posted: February 9, 2016 Fairooz Adams, a 2014 graduate of Lewisville High School, has announced his is running for Place 4 on the Lewisville ISD Board of Trustees. Below is his announcement: I have been advocating for the interests of the students of LISD and my community since I was 15, when […]
Washington Post Originally Posted: February 11, 2016 Daniel Drezner says Donald Trump is the champion of foreign policy ‘realism.’ He’s wrong. It’s Barack Obama. When President George W. Bush decided on war with Iraq in 2003, the ostensible goals were to depose the dictator Saddam Hussein and destroy his alleged arsenal of weapons of mass […]
SMU News Originally Posted: December 16, 2015 DALLAS (SMU) – Thomas Cavanna and David Benson have been selected to serve yearlong national security postdoctoral fellowships at SMU. Cavanna is in the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies, and Benson joins SMU as part of a National Science Foundation-funded project on cyber-security. “Both are pursuing […]
The Texas Standard Originally Aired: December 9, 2015 Robert Jordan, former ambassador to Saudi Arabia and diplomat-in-residence at SMU’s Tower Center, talked with The Texas Standard on Dec. 9, 2015, about Saudi Arabia’s role in the struggle with ISIS and what more can that country do. Jordan is the author of Desert Diplomat: Inside Saudi Arabia Following […]
SMU News Originally Posted: November 19, 2015 David McCullough, the prolific writer frequently referred to as “America’s greatest historian,” received the Medal of Freedom from SMU’s John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies on Wednesday, Nov. 18. Historian David McCullough (center) with President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush at the Medal of […]
KLIF Originally Posted: November 16, 2015 SMU’s Joshua Rovner, the John Goodwin Tower Distinguished Chair in International Politics & National Security Policy, talked with KLIF radio’s Amy Chodroff and Dave Williams, about the terrorists’ attacks in Paris last Friday and SMU students who are studying there. LISTEN
SMU News Originally Posted: November 16, 2015 David McCullough, the prolific writer frequently referred to as “America’s greatest historian,” will receive the Medal of Freedom from SMU’s John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies on Wednesday, Nov. 18. McCullough will speak at a 4:30 p.m. Q&A-style forum moderated by SMU Tower Scholar Sara Jendrusch in […]
Topics include: international security insight into ISIS and Paris attacks. More on Rovner: http://www.smu.edu/TowerCenter/People/Administration/JoshuaRovner