Owens to present public lecture on American foreign policy

Mackubin Thomas Owens, professor at the Institute for World Politics in Washington, D.C. and senior fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, will discuss “American Foreign Policy: Prudence and Principles” on Monday, April 20.

Presented by the Department of Political Science, his talk will be held at 6:30 p.m. in Bazarsky Lecture Hall, and will be followed by a Q-and-A period.

Owens, who is editor of the quarterly journal Orbis, recently retired as professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College. He has a long record of distinguished academic service, having authored, co-authored, and edited a number of scholarly books and scholarly articles on politics and national security. He has also been published in numerous prominent newspapers.

Owens was a Marine infantry platoon and company commander in Vietnam in 1968-1969, and was awarded the Silver Star.