Press | Domestic Affairs

CC Associate Director Paul D. Miller looks at the ideologies of realism, liberalism, and isolationism in the Trump administration for a recent article in War on the Rocks. 

Former CC Graduate Fellow and current Senior National Security Fellow at the R Street Institute Megan Reiss recently wrote a piece for the Lawfare Blog analyzing the American public’s support for implementing sanctions. 

CC Executive Director Will Inboden talks with the Texas Standard radio program about US-North Korea relations.

CC Executive Director Will Inboden offered commentary for Foreign Policy regarding the Trump administration’s first year. 

Former Postdoctoral Fellow Ionut Popescu writes for Foreign Policy about implementation of President Trump’s forthcoming National Security Strategy. 

Prof. Steve Slick, who served in the CIA for almost three decades and now leads the Intelligence Studies Project, was quoted in a Washington Times article on the controversy involving the recent election. 

CC Postdoctoral Fellow Evan McCormick joins with Alexandra Evans to highlight the ways history can inform current challenges at the State Department. 

In a recent NPR article and news segment, Executive Director Will Inboden and CC Faculty Affiliate H.W. Brands take a look at the current administration from the viewpoint of an historian. 

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.