Press | Domestic Affairs

CC Executive Director Will Inboden was quoted in The New York Times about presidential history and the gap between promises and policies. 

Two CC Summer Seminar alumni, Nathaniel Allen and Bradley Potter, collaborate to co-author an article for War on the Rocks. 

Galen Jackson investigates the role of domestic politics in President Carter’s strategy in the Middle East from 1977 to 1978.

As part of our Undergraduate Fellows program, UT System Chancellor William McRaven met with our students to talk about careers in public service and national security.

In an article for Foreign Policy and interview for Texas Standard, Associate Director Paul D. Miller argues that the Afghanistan speech “was one of Donald Trump’s finest moments as president.”

In his latest piece “Our Missing President,” Executive Director Will Inboden argues that recent crises, domestic and abroad, highlight a failure of presidential leadership. 

Gathering in DC for the launch of the Texas National Security Review, Executive Director Will Inboden and Associate Director Paul D. Miller discuss the role of history in policymaking with War on the Rocks Editor-in-Chief Ryan Evans. 

Executive Director Will Inboden talks with Financial Times about recent developments in DC. 

For the 70th anniversary of the National Security Act, ISP Senior Fellow Paul Pope writes for Psychology Today about the bipartisan nature of the act. 

Clements Executive Director Will Inboden writes for War on the Rocks about “the law that transformed America.”

CC Executive Director Will Inboden and ISP Director Steve Slick were recently featured in a Foreign Policy piece with a few of their suggested books for summer reading. 

Associate Director Paul D. Miller analyses President Trump’s speech to the Polish people last week in Warsaw. 

Associate Director Paul D. Miller talks with Foreign Policy’s executive editor Sharon Weinberger about the Trump administration’s Afghanistan policy.

Bobby Chesney, a Professor at UT Law and Director of the Strauss Center, answers questions from NPR’s Audie Cornish about legality issues regarding the former FBI Directors released memos. 

In his latest post for Foreign Policy‘s Elephants in the Room, Executive Director Will Inboden argues that yesterday’s two political events–Former FBI Director Comey’s testimony and the British General Election–represent “a transatlantic crisis of leadership.” 

In his latest article for Foreign Policy’s “Elephants in the Room,” Associate Director Paul D. Miller argues that the Trump administration should turn its focus to the war in Afghanistan and work towards finding “a long-delayed yet successful conclusion.”

In an article for Foreign Policy, Executive Director Will Inboden argues that the transitional period for the Trump administration has come to an end.

Postdoctoral Fellow Ionut Popescu authors a piece for War on the Rocks on President Trump’s foreign policy strategy and offers recommendations for future policymaking. 

Executive Director Will Inboden writes for the Dallas Morning News about “A Tale of Two Trumps.”

Associate Director Paul D. Miller argues in The Hill that policymakers and scholars should pay renewed attention to the 2013 agreement under President Obama whereby Syria agreed to let the UN monitor its chemical weapons. 

Executive Director Will Inboden was interviewed by reporter Amanda Salinas on Good Day Austin about recent events in Syria and Russia.

The Post quotes the keynote speech of FBI Director James Comey at the “Intelligence in Defense of the Homeland” Symposium in March. 

Associate Director Paul D. Miller reviews Harrington Faculty Fellow Charlie Laderman and Brendan Simms new book. 

Executive Director Will Inboden argues that early critiques of Secretary of State (and UT alumnus) Rex Tillerson are premature. 

The Washington Post‘s Jennifer Rubin quotes Dr. Paul D. Miller in her argument that the current administration’s foreign policy bares many similarities to Obama’s administration. 

Director of Graduate Studies Mark Lawrence writes for the New York Times about policymaker’s limited ability to exert power in other parts of the world while the Vietnam War was being waged in southeast Asia. 

Associate Director Paul D. Miller writes for War on the Rocks, challenging the narrative of successful foreign policy restraint in the Obama administration. 

Associate Director Paul D. Miller discusses the thinking of President Trump’s Deputy Assistant to the President for Strategic Communications, Michael Anton, writing “his is a voice to heed closely in the age of Trump.” 

UT Harrington Fellow Charlie Laderman writes for Foreign Policy about the history of President Trump’s worldview.

The Clements Center was honored to host a great event with Dr. Adam Garfinkle on President Trump’s Middle East foreign policy. 

Associate Director Paul D. Miller discussed how a recent presidential executive order could affect U.S. intelligence gathering.

The Duke Chronicle detailed Dr. Miller’s talk at Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy with Duke Professor Peter Feaver.  

In a recent Dallas Morning News article, Executive Director Will Inboden discusses the challenges facing newly-confirmed Secretary of State (and UT-Austin alum) Rex Tillerson.

In a recent Wall Street Journal article on the challenges awaiting Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson, Executive Director Will Inboden is quoted about the unique historical moment.

Harrington Fellow Charlie Laderman is interviewed for the Library of Congress’ Kluge Center podcast.