Events | 2024

On Tuesday, November 19, 2024, the Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project hosted author Steve Coll for a book talk on The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq. BIOGRAPHY Steve Coll is an editor at the Economist, the author of nine books of nonfiction, and a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Between 1985 and 2005,…

On Thursday, November 14, 2024, the Clements Center and Department of History hosted Julia Irwin, T. Harry Williams Professor of History at Louisiana State University for a talk on “Catastrophic Diplomacy: U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century.” The even was from 12:15 – 1:30 PM in SRH 3.B7, The LBJ School of Public…

On Tuesday, November 12, 2024, the Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project hosted a public talk, “HOT SPOT BRIEFING – Inconvenient Truth: The Global Jihadi Threat,” with Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown, former UK ambassador to Yemen. The two decades that followed 9/11 saw a concentrated, US-led international investment in counterterrorism (CT) that suppressed the threat from al-Qaeda and the Islamic…

On Thursday, November 7, 2024, the Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project hosted author Yonah Jeremy Bob for a book talk on Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East. BIOGRAPHY Yonah Jeremy Bob is The Jerusalem Post‘s senior military correspondent and intelligence analyst and…

On Friday, November 1st and Saturday, November 2nd, CREEES, Institute for Historical Studies, Department of History, Clements Center, Center for European Studies, South Asia Institute, Middle Eastern Studies, and LLILAS hosted a conference of impact-centric discussion on the echos of Russia’s past upon the world’s future. The conference was from 10-4:30 PM on 11/1 and…

On Thursday, October 24th, the Clements-Strauss Asia Policy Program, in partnership with the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI), will co-host a panel event on the US-ROK alliance. Join us at a two-panel event from 12:00-2:00PM in SRH 3.B10, The LBJ School of Public Affairs. The panelist will present findings from their papers on US-Korea cooperation in…

On Tuesday, October 15, 2024, the Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law hosted a public talk, “Signals Intelligence in the Digital Age – A Conversation with George C. Barnes, Former NSA Deputy Director.” The event was from 12:15 – 1:30 PM in SRH 3.122, The LBJ School of Public Affairs. George C….

On Wednesday, October 9,  the Clements-Strauss Asia Policy Program and the Intelligence Studies Project, hosted Mike Studeman, retired two-star admiral, former Commander of the Office of Naval Intelligence, and former Director of Intelligence for the Indo-Pacific Command for a talk on “China in Strategic Context”. The event was in Bass Lecture Hall at the LBJ School from 12:15 – 1:30…

On Friday, September 27th, the Clements-Strauss Asia Policy Program hosted Dr. Joan Cho, Professor East Asia Studies at Wesleyan University, for a book talk on Seeds of Mobilization: The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea’s Democracy. The event was at 12:15 PM in SRH 3.122 at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Joan Cho is Associate Professor of East Asian…

On Thursday, September 19th, the Clements-Strauss Asia Policy Program hosted Dr. Olivia Cheung, Research Fellow at the China Institute at SOAS University of London, for a virtual talk on The Political Thought of Xi Jinping from 12:15 – 1:30 PM. Dr. Cheung will present the main findings of The Political Thought of Xi Jinping, the new book she co-authored…

On Tuesday, September 17, the Clements Center for National Security, LBJ School of Public Affairs, and UT Naval ROTC hosted General (Ret) Kenneth F. “Frank” McKenzie Jr. for a talk on his recent book, The Melting Point: High Command and War in the 21st Century. The event was from 5:30 – 7:00 pm, in Bass Lecture…

On Tuesday, September 10, the Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project, Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and the Clements Center for National Security hosted a public talk, “The Future of Open-Source Intelligence – A Conversation with Randy Nixon, Director of CIA’s Open Source Enterprise.” The event was from 12:15-1:30 pm, in SRH 3.122 at the LBJ School of Public Affairs….

On Tuesday, September 10, the Strauss Center for International Security and Law joined the Clements Center for National Security in hosting Robert D. Kaplan from 5:30 – 7:00 pm, in Bass Lecture Hall at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Not since the end of the Cold War has the world faced such danger. War rages in…

The 5th Annual UT-Austin National Security Career Fair was held on Monday, September 9, 2024 from 9:00AM to 3:00PM at the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center. This event was cosponsored by the Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, in partnership with Texas Career Engagement and the LBJ School of Public Affairs. The event was open to all…

On Thursday, April 18, the Clements Center for National Security, the Center for European Studies and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies hosted Michael Kimmage, Professor of History at Catholic University, for a book talk on his upcoming release Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability….

On Tuesday, April 16th, the Clements-Strauss Asia Policy Program hosted Xiaobing Li, Professor of History and the Don Betz Endowed Chair in International Studies at the University of Central Oklahoma, for a book talk on China’s New Navy: The Evolution of PLAN from the People’s Revolution to a 21st Century Cold War. Xiaobing Li is a Professor of History…

On Thursday, April 11, the Clements Center for National Security, the LBJ Presidential Library and the UT-Austin History Department hosted Talmage Boston, historian and partner at the Dallas law firm Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton, LLP, for a book talk on his release How the Best Did It: Leadership Lessons From Our Top Presidents. Talmage…

On Wednesday, April 10, the Clements-Strauss Asia Policy Program hosted Ramon Pacheco Pardo, Professor of International Relations at King’s College London and the KF-VUB Korea Chair at the Brussels School of Governance of Vrije Universiteit Brussel, for a book talk on South Korea’s Grand Strategy: Making Its Own Destiny. Ramon Pacheco Pardo is Professor of International Relations at King’s…

On Thursday, March 21, the Clements Center for National Security, the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, hosted Lena Andrews, Associate Research Professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy and former military analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency, for a book talk on her…

On Thursday, March 7, the Clements Center for National Security, the LBJ School of Public Affairs, the LBJ Presidential Library and the UT-Austin History Department hosted Philip Taubman, Lecturer at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, for a book talk on his recent release In the Nation’s Service: The Life and…

On Tuesday, March 5, the Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project hosted author and former CIA analyst David McCloskey for a talk on his recently released book, Moscow X: A Novel. David McCloskey is the author of the novels Moscow X and Damascus Station. His books have been Apple and Amazon ‘Picks of the Month’ and have sold over one hundred thousand…

On Thursday, February 29, the America in the World Consortium, the Clements Center for National Security and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law hosted Charles Kupchan, Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University and Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, for a book talk on his recent release Isolationism: A History of America’s…

On Monday, February 26, the Alexander Hamilton Society – UT-Austin Chapter, the Clements Center for National Security and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law hosted Ian Easton, security policy analyst and current associate professor at the U.S. Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute, for a discussion on China’s maritime strategy and its…

On Tuesday, February 20, the Clements Center for National Security, the UT-Austin History Department and the Naval ROTC hosted Robert Rakove, Lecturer in International Relations at Stanford University, for a book talk on his recent release Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion. Robert Rakove is a historian who studies…

On Tuesday, February 13, the Clements Center for National Security, the Asia Policy Program, and the Texas McCombs Center for Global Business hosted Meg Reiss, founder and CEO of SolidIntel Inc. and former national security policy advisor for U.S. Senator Mitt Romney, for a talk on “Unraveling the Threads: China, Geopolitics, and Supply Chain Threats.” Dr. Meg Reiss…

On Tuesday, February 6, the Atlantic Council, NATO ACT, the Canadian Consulate General, and UT-Austin’s Center for European Studies, Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and Clements Center for National Security convened a public conference of NATO officials, former policymakers, and scholars engaging in a critical discussion about the role of the transatlantic alliance…

On Wednesday, January 31, the Intelligence Studies Project, Clements Center for National Security, Strauss Center for International Security and Law, LBJ Presidential Library, and LBJ School of Public Affairs hosted “Securing the Homeland: A Conversation with Intelligence and Counterterrorism Leaders of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security,” with Kenneth L. Wainstein, Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, Nicholas J. Rasmussen, Counterterrorism Coordinator…

On Tuesday, January 30, the Clements Center for National Security, the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and the Intelligence Studies Project hosted “The Future of European Security: NATO, Ukraine, and Russia” with Ambassador Kurt Volker, Former United States Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations, and General Tod Wolters, Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe…