Amos A. Jordan Jr., chief executive officer of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., will discuss "The Emerging International Order in the 1990s" on Wednesday, March 14, at Brigham Young University.
Jordan, a former brigadier general in the Army and professor at West Point Academy, will speak at 11 a.m. in the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies Conference Room, 238 Herald R. Clark Building.The Center for Strategic and International Studies is a non-profit foreign policy research institute. Jordan joined the center in 1977 after serving in several U.S. government posts, including deputy undersecretary of state and principal deputy assistant secretary of defense.
He served at West Point, first as a professor and later as director of the social sciences programs, from 1955 to 1972. He has been a consultant to the National Security Council, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other public and private organizations, and he has served on several presidential commissions and governmental study groups.