
Our Principles
The Alexander Hamilton Society (AHS) is an independent, non-partisan, not-for-profit, membership organization dedicated to promoting constructive debate on basic principles and contemporary issues in foreign, economic, and national security policy. As we build a national network of outstanding students, faculty, and professionals, we sponsor debates at colleges and universities, as well as in major cities, and provide other opportunities for our members to flourish intellectually, professionally, and personally.
Our members—on 50 campuses, as well as in Miami, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington, DC—are united by basic convictions about the United States and its role in the world.

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 firm belief that, time and again, in peace and in war, the ability of the American political system to profit from vigorous public discussion has proved its worth; and that, at this moment in our history, our public discussion of foreign, economic, and national security policy stands very much in need of renewal.
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;
A clear recognition that, in such a world, our true friends and reliable partners are other democratic nations with whom we share an enduring commonality of values, and not simply a temporary convergence of interests;
A measured pride in the success of the American experiment; an understanding that America’s greatness is the result of its commitment to individual liberty, limited government, economic freedom, the rule of law, human dignity, and democracy; and a belief that the fundamental aim of every aspect of our policy, foreign and domestic, must be to defend these principles at home and ultimately to encourage their spread abroad.
Board of Directors
Jones Day
Bridgewater Associates
Geosphere Capital Management, LLC
Board of Advisors
Elliott Abrams Council on Foreign Relations
Gerard Alexander University of Virginia
Max Boot Council on Foreign Relations
Jennifer Bryson Center for Islam and Religious Freedom
Ian Brzezinski Atlantic Council
Kara Bue Armitage International
James Carafano The Heritage Foundation
Eliot Cohen Johns Hopkins University, SAIS
Elbridge Colby Center for a New American Security
Ambassador J. D. Crouch United Service Organizations
Jacqueline Deal Long Term Strategy Group
Michael Doran Hudson Institute
Colin Dueck George Mason University
Mackenzie Eaglen American Enterprise Institute
Thomas Farr Georgetown University
Peter Feaver Duke University
Michael Green Center for Strategic and International Studies
Jakub Grygiel Catholic University
Kerry Healey Babson College
Brian Hook Latitude LLC, (Currently in Government Service)
John Hannah Foundation for Defense of Democracies
William Inboden University of Texas, Austin
Robert Kagan Brookings Institution
Charles Kesler Claremont McKenna College
James C. Kraska Foreign Policy Research Institute
William Kristol Weekly Standard
Daniel Leger Akre Capital Management
Robert Lieber Georgetown University
Thomas Mahnken Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
Peter Mansoor The Ohio State University
Wess Mitchell Center for European Policy Analysis
Henry R. Nau George Washington University
Michael O’Hanlon Brookings Institution
Mackubin Thomas Owens Foreign Policy Research Institute
General David Petraeus (Ret.) KKR Global Institute
Ambassador Mitchell Reiss Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Stanley Renshon City University of New York
Stephen Rosen Harvard University
Michael Rubin American Enterprise Institute
Eric Sayers Beacon Global Strategies
Kori Schake International Institute for Strategic Studies
Randall Schriver Armitage International, (Currently in Government Service)
Ambassador Kristen Silverberg Institute of International Finance
Ashley Tellis Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Roger Zakheim Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute
National Staff
Executive Director
Program Manager
Program Development Assistant
Program Assistant
Contact
National Office
Email: Info@hamsoc.org
The Alexander Hamilton Society
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United States of America
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