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Are you a student interested in American grand strategy? U.S. foreign policy? International relations, national security, and defense/public policy? Then the Alexander Hamilton Society is the organization for you!The Alexander Hamilton Society (AHS) is an independent, non-partisan, membership organization dedicated to promoting the basic principles and contemporary issues in foreign, economic, and national security policy. We are part of a national network of outstanding students, faculty, and professionals that sponsor events at many major universities. We also provide other opportunities for our members to flourish professionally and personally, and our members span worldwide and are united at basic convictions discussing the United State's role in the world. Our activities include: Hamiltonian Statecraft: Every student who applies to be an author will have an opportunity to get published on an issue in international relations and national security on a semesterly basis. Under the guidance of our Editor in Chief, members would receive close mentorship and active feedback on five possible entry formats: research paper, academic essay, Op-Ed, policy proposal, and book review. Additionally, students would have the opportunity to crosslist the publication with the national organization’s journal, The Hamiltonian.Hamiltonian Diplomacy: Selected AHS members will compete in bisemesterly conferences per year for any of the following: Model UN, Model NATO, Model European Union, and Model Arab League. The delegation team would be led by the Director of Academic Programs, who would assist and coach delegates in successfully representing our Chapter to the national conference.Speaker events and panels: The speaker panels/events provide students an understanding of what American leadership has achieved. They address complex global issues from multiple perspectives with a goal to promote critical thinking. Speakers include former Secretaries of State, Secretaries of Defense, Directors of CIA, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Senior Fellows at esteemed think tanks and civil societies in Washington D.C.National Programming: The national charter runs intensive programs for students to educate skills and knowledge for foreign affairs and national security careers. Members of the AHS would have the opportunity to engage with scholars in foreign policy and national security through expert panels, chapter training, professional development, and networking opportunities. These include the National Defense Fellowship run by the AHS and the Ronald Reagan Institute, the Hamilton National Fellowship that provides grants for summer internships in Washington, DC, and book series that provide a wide perspective to foreign affairs, defense, and economic policy. Wargaming and policy simulations: The wargames and policy simulations, designed by RAND Corporation, would serve to educate our membership on American grand strategy, defense policy, and budgeting forward engagement. Led by the Director of Policy, wargames and policy simulations would be run on a monthly basis on various formats and various international crisis scenarios to provide a firsthand experience in managing and executing U.S. foreign and defense policy abroad.Additionally, AHS stands for basic principles in U.S. foreign policy that include: A conviction, rooted in the history of the last century, that the world is a better, safer, and more prosperous place when the United States is willing and able to lead. And a commitment to maintaining the moral authority and material strength on which that leadership rests.An appreciation that the world remains a dangerous place in which our power must be exercised with prudence, and where the primary threats to our security come from states that deny freedom to their own people and from non-state actors who embrace hatred and violence.A clear recognition that, in such a world, our true friends and reliable partners are other democratic nat
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