Evolving Challenges, Enduring Principles
Sheena Chestnut Greitens
In her first introduction as the new editor in chief of the Texas National Security Review, Sheena Chestnut Greitens considers the importance of getting major questions of national and international security right and highlights the journal's role in supporting that endeavor.
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.
https://tnsr.org/2024/10/evolving-challenges-enduring-principles/
