Events | 2022

On Wednesday, November 30, the Clements-Strauss Asia Policy Program hosted Nathan Law, Hong Kong democratic activist and former Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, to discuss his latest release, Freedom: How We Lose It and How We Fight Back. 

On Wednesday, November 30, the Athenaeum at The University of Texas, the LBJ Foundation, the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Clements Center for National Security hosted a conversation on “The Future of Conservatism” with George Will and Karl Rove, moderated by Will Inboden. 

On Tuesday, November 29, the Clements Center for National Security, the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, the Defense Research Advancement in the Office of the Vice President for Research, Scholarship and Creative Endeavors, and the America in the World Consortium hosted Susan Colbourn, Associate Director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies, the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, for a book talk on her recent release Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO. 

On Wednesday, November 16, the Clements-Strauss Asia Policy Program and the Center for East Asian Studies hosted Susan Shirk, Research Professor and Chair of the 21st Century China Center at the University of California San Diego and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs, for a book talk on her upcoming release, Overreach: How China Derailed its Peaceful Rise. This talk will be moderated by Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens, director of the Asia Policy Program and Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. 

On Tuesday, November 15, the Clements Center for National Security, the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, the LBJ School of Public Affairs, the UT-Austin Department of History and the America in the World Consortium hosted William Inboden, Executive Director of the Clements Center, for a book talk on his upcoming release The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink. 

On Thursday, November 10, the Clements Center for National Security, UT-Austin Department of History and the Naval ROTC at UT-Austin hosted Steven McGregor for a book talk on his recent release with Brendan Simms, The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway. 

On Wednesday, November 9, the Clements Center for National Security and the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies hosted Walter Russell Mead, the Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship at Hudson Institute, the Global View Columnist at The Wall Street Journal, for a book talk on his recent release The Arc of A Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People. 

On Thursday, November 3, the Clements Center for National Security, the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, the McCombs Business, Government & Society Department, and the Defense Research Advancement in the Office of the Vice President for Research, Scholarship and Creative Endeavors, hosted Chris Miller, Assistant Professor of International History at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, for a book talk on his recent release Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology. 

On Tuesday, November 1, the Clements Center for National Security, the Strauss Center of International Security and Law, the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the UT-Austin Department of History hosted Jeremi Suri, the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, for a book talk on his forthcoming release Civil War by Other Means. 

On Friday, October 28, the Clements-Strauss Asia Policy Program, the Department of Asian Studies, the Center for East Asian Studies and the Institute for Historical Studies hosted Aaron Skabelund, Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University, for a book talk on his recent release Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan’s Self-Defense Force during the Cold War. This talk will be moderated by Dr. Patricia Maclachlan, Mitsubishi of Heavy Industries Professor in Japanese Studies and Asia Policy Faculty Affiliate. 

On Wednesday, October 26, The Clements and Strauss Center’s Asia Policy Program, the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies and the Center for East Asian Studies hosted Joseph Torigian, Assistant Professor at the School of International Service at American University, to discuss his latest release, Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao. 

On Tuesday, October 25, the Clements Center for National Security and the Department of Government will host Charles Zug, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado – Colorado Springs, for a book talk on his upcoming release Demagogues in American Politics. Join us at 12:15 pm in RLP 1.302B, Patton Hall.

On Monday, October 24, 2022, the Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project, Clements Center for National Security and Strauss Center for International Security and Law, in partnership with the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the UT-Austin Department of Middle Eastern Studies, hosted Zohar Palti, former Director of Israel’s Ministry of Defense Policy and Political-Military Bureau and former Director of Intelligence of the Mossad, for a conversation on Middle East security challenges. 

On Friday, October 21, the Clements-Strauss Asia Policy Program and the Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center hosted Nury Turkel, Chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, to discuss his latest release, No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs. 

On Wednesday, October 19, the Clements Center for National Security, the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, the Center for European Studies, the Moody College of Communication and the LBJ School of Public Affairs hosted Mark Pomar, Senior National Security Fellow, Clements Center for National Security, former Director of the USSR Division at the Voice of America, and founding CEO and President of the US – Russia Foundation, for a conversation on his recent release Cold War Radio: The Russian Broadcasts of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Kiril Avramov, Assistant Professor at the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies and non-resident Fellow for the Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project, moderated. 

On Tuesday, October 18th, the Clements Center for National Security and the Civitas Institute hosted Paul Carrese, Founding Director of the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University, for a talk on “The Enduring Core of American Foreign Policy: Montesquieu and the Right of Nations.” 

On Wednesday, October 12, the Clements Center for National Security, the Department of History and the Naval ROTC at UT-Austin hosted Kevin McCranie, Professor of Comparative Strategy at the U.S. Naval War College, for a book talk on his recent release Mahan, Corbett, and the Foundations of Naval Strategic Thought. 

On Wednesday, October 5, the Clements Center for National Security, the Clements-Strauss Asia Policy Program, the America in the World Consortium, the Clark Center for Australian & New Zealand Studies and the Center for East Asian Studies hosted Hal Brands, Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), for a book talk on his upcoming release with Michael Beckley Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China. 

On Thursday, September 29, the Clements Center for National Security, the Asia Policy Program, the Alexander Hamilton Society at UT Austin and the Center for East Asian Studies hosted Aaron Friedberg, Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, for a book talk on his recent release Getting China Wrong. 

On Thursday, September 22, the Clements Center for National Security, the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, the Center for European Studies, and the Alexander Hamilton Society at UT Austin hosted Dan Fata, President of Fata Advisory, LLC and former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy, for a talk on “An Update on the Russia-Ukraine War and What it’s Done – and Means for International Security.” 

On Saturday, September 17, the Polish Club at UT hostedRadosław Sikorski, Former Polish Speaker of the House, Foreign Affairs Minister, Defense Minister, and current member of the EU Parliament, for a talk on “The Making of a European Union Military.” The Clements Center for National Security, the Center for European Studies, the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, the McCombs School of Business Department of Business, Government and Society, Liberal Arts Honors, Texas Global and the Department of Government cosponsored this event. 

On Wednesday, September 14, the Clements-Strauss Asia Policy Program, the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies and the Center for East Asian Studies hosted Katie Stallard, Global Fellow at the Wilson Center and Senior Editor of China and Global Affairs at the New Statesman, for a book talk on her latest release, Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia, and North Korea, moderated by Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens, director of the Asia Policy Program and Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs.

The University of Texas at Austin’s National Security Career Fair was held on Monday, September 12, 2022 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm at the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center. This event was sponsored by the University of Texas at Austin’s Clements Center for National Security, Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and the Intelligence Studies Project, in partnership with Texas Career Engagement and the LBJ School of Public Affairs. The event was open to all UT students and the general public. 

On Monday, September 12, the Clements Center for National Security, the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and the Intelligence Studies Project hosted “From 9/11 to Great Power Competition: Current National Security Challenges.” We were honored to have a keynote address on “The Future of Intelligence Support to Diplomacy” with the Honorable Brett Holmgren, Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State, and a keynote conversation on national security with Congressman Michael McCaul, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Will Inboden, Clements Center Executive Director, introduced by Jay Hartzell, the University of Texas at Austin President. Following the keynote discussions, there was an expert panel discussion with the Honorable Brett Holmgren, Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State, General Vince Brooks (Ret.), former General & Commander of the United Nations Command/ Combined Forces Command/United States Forces Korea, and Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Founding Director of the Asia Policy Program. Adam Klein, Director of the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, moderated. 

On Thursday, September 8, the Clements Center for National Security, the Clements-Strauss Asia Policy Program and the Clark Center for Australian & New Zealand Studies hosted Charles Edel, the inaugural Australia Chair and senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, for a talk on “A Plan of Pacific Strategy: The Future of Australian – American Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific Region.” 

On Wednesday, September 7, the Clements Center for National Security and the UT-Austin History Department hosted Christopher McKnight Nichols, the Wayne Woodrow Hayes Chair in National Security Studies and Professor of History at Ohio State University, Raymond Haberski, Jr., Professor of History and Director of American Studies at the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI, and Emily Conroy-Krutz, Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University, for a book talk on Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations: New Histories. Jeremi Suri, Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs, the University of Texas at Austin and Clements Center Faculty Fellow, will moderate. 

On Thursday, September 1, the Clements Center for National Security, the Center for European Studies and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, hosted Elisabeth Leake, the Lee E. Dirks Chair in Diplomatic History at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, for a talk on “Afghan Crucible: Rethinking the Soviet Invasion and Its Current Significance.” 

On Thursday, May 5th, the Clements Center for National Security hosted Lech Wałęsa, Former Polish President and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, for an event on “Russia’s War on Ukraine and Its Global Impact.” Join us at 5:30 pm at the AT&T Hotel and Conference Center in Amphitheater 204. Doors opened at 5:00 pm.

The Polish Club at UT, the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, the Center for European Studies, the Department of Government, the Liberal Arts Honors Program, the McCombs School of Business Department of Business, Government & Society, and Texas Global cosponsored this event. Registration was required.

On Wednesday, April 27, 2022, The University of Texas at Austin’s Intelligence Studies Project, Strauss Center for International Security and Law, Clements Center for National Security, Asia Policy Program and the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies hosted Dr. Seth Jones, Director of the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and author of Three Dangerous Men: Russia, China, Iran, and the Rise of Irregular Warfare for a book talk. An expert panel including Dr. Michael Dennis, a senior analyst at the Army Futures Command; Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens, associate professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and founding director of the Asia Policy Program; and Dr. Bianca Adair, CIA Resident Intelligence Officer at the LBJ School discussed “gray zone” conflict and irregular warfare as practiced by the Russian, Chinese, and Iranian governments. The expert panel was moderated by Paul Pope, a Professor of Practice at the LBJ School and ISP Senior Fellow. 

On Tuesday, April 26, the Clements Center for National Security and the UT-Austin Department of History hosted Paul Kennedy, J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History at Yale University, for a book talk on his upcoming release Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II. The event took place at 12:15 pm in the Bass Lecture Hall at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. 

On Thursday, April 21st, the Clements Center for National Security and the Alexander Hamilton Society – UT-Austin Chapter hosted Ambassador Kristen Silverberg, President & Chief Operating Officer at Business Roundtable and former Ambassador to the European Union, for an event on “Economic Statecraft and the Future World Order.” The event took place at 12:15 pm in RLP 1.302E, Robert L. Patton Hall.

On Tuesday, April 19, the Clements Center for National Security and the Kay Bailey Hutchison Center for Energy, Law & Business virtually hosted Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and William Inboden for a discussion on “The Ukraine War: What Comes Next on Energy and Security.” The event was held on Zoom at 12:00 pm.