Center for the Study of America and the West

FPRI’s Center for the Study of America and the West has established itself as an influential program, affecting both the state of scholarly discourse and the teaching of history in the classroom. Founded in 1997, FPRI’s Center for America and the West builds upon FPRI’s successful History Academy. Together they are designed to relate the teaching of history to issues of American and Western identity, combining high levels of scholarship with a method to introduce that scholarship into the classroom at the secondary and university levels.

Publications

The Center publishes Watch on the West, a bulletin covering issues about Western identity and the Atlantic Alliance.

Is There Still a West? The Future of the Atlantic Alliance, edited by Harvey Sicherman and William Anthony Hay, was published in 2007. Is There Still a West? looks beyond recent events to put disagreements within NATO into historical perspective, exploring how cultural, demographic, economic, and military factors since the 1940s have affected future prospects for security cooperation.

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