Events

On Tuesday, April 18, the Clements-Strauss Asia Policy Program, Clements Center for National Security, Strauss Center for International Security and Law, Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps and Center for East Asian Studies hosted Isaac B. Kardon, Assistant Professor in the Center for Naval Warfare Studies at the U.S. Naval War College, to discuss his latest release China’s Law of the Sea. This talk was moderated by Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens, founding Director of the Asia Policy Program and Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. 

On Thursday, April 13, the Clements Center for National Security and the UT-Austin History Department, the Defense Research Advancement, Army ROTC, Naval ROTC, and Air Force ROTC hosted Jonathan Hunt, Assistant Professor of Strategy at the U.S. Air War College, for a book talk on his recent release The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam. 

On Tuesday, April 11, The University of Texas at Austin’s Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project, the Clements Center for National Security and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law hosted Beth Sanner, former Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Mission Integration and former Director of the President’s Daily Brief, for a public talk on intelligence support to the U.S. President. 

On Thursday, April 6, the Clements Center for National Security, the Clements-Strauss Asia Policy Program, and the Center for East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) hosted David Merkel, Managing Director of Summit International Advisors, LLC and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, for a talk on “Seeds of Division Between Moscow and Beijing in Central Asia.” 

On Tuesday, April 4, 2023, the University of Texas at Austin’s Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project, the Clements Center for National Security and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, in partnership with the LBJ School of Public Affairs, hosted The Honorable Christy Abizaid, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), for “Countering Terrorism in an Era of Great Power Competition.”

On Thursday, March 30th, the Clements Center for National Security, the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, the UT-Austin History Department, the Center for European Studies and the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies hosted Stephen Kotkin, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, for a talk on “Stalin, World War, and Today’s World.” 

On Monday, March 20th, the Alexander Hamilton Society at UT-Austin, the Clements Center for National Security and the International Relations and Global Studies Council hosted Admiral William McRaven, Former UT Chancellor and Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command and Professor of National Security at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, for a talk on “Poor Public Education: A Threat to National Security.” 

On March 8th, the Clements Center for National Security, the History Department, the Government Department, and the Army ROTC at UT-Austin hosted Ben Griffin, Chief of the Military History Division in the History Department at the United States Military Academy, for a book talk on his recent release Reagan’s War Stories: A Cold War Presidency. 

On Wednesday, March 1, the Clements Center for National Security and the Alexander Hamilton Society at UT-Austin hosted Mackenzie Eaglen, Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, for a talk on “Hard Power and Hard Choices: Maintaining Military Readiness.” 

On Wednesday, February 22, the Clements Center for National Security, the Center for East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) and the Center for European Studies (CES) will host Volodymyr Dubovyk is an Associate Professor, Department of International Relations and Director, Center for International Studies, Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University (Ukraine), for a virtual talk “The Longest Year: Taking Stock of Russia’s War on Ukraine.” Join us on Zoom at 6:00 pm CT.