Events

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.