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Intelligence Studies Project Director Steve Slick and Michael Allen have co-authored a piece for Foreign Policy on the 10th anniversary of the DNI.

On Thursday, April 2nd, the Clements Center hosted U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) at the University of Texas.

In preparation for tonight’s State of the Union address, Executive Director William Inboden comments on how presidents should think about legacy in his January 20th Shadow Government post.

Executive Director William Inboden blogs about the upcoming Republican primary and the “competition to be Reagan’s political heir” in his latest Shadow Government post. 

The “Presidential Power, Then and Now” lecture series will be hosted by the Clements Center in the spring of 2015. The series will examine the origins of presidential power and how the framers conceived of the office of the presidency.

Former Clements Center graduate assistant Rachel Hoff co-authored an article for The Weekly Standard with Caitlin Poling on their experience campaigning during the midterm elections.

Rand Paul’s recent talk at the Center for the National Interest about “conservative realism” was the topic of Associate Director Paul D. Miller’s blog post for Foreign Policy’s Shadow Government.

Executive Director William Inboden and Kim R. Holmes published their fourth installment in a four part series on the future of U.S. foreign policy on Foreign Policy’s Shadow Government blog. 

In his latest Shadow Government blog post, Executive Director William Inboden responds to President Obama’s 60 Minutes interview in which he “singled out Director of National Intelligence James Clapper for the intelligence failures that allegedly missed the Islamic State (IS) threat.”

In his latest post on Foreign Policy’s Shadow Government blog, Executive Director William Inboden writes about airstrikes against the Islamic State and “history’s continual capacity to surprise.”

Professor Inboden was quoted in New York Times White House correspondent Peter Baker’s news analysis titled “As World Boils, Fingers Point Obama’s Way.” 

In The National Interest piece titled “Obama and the Ghost of Lyndon Johnson,” Peter Harris compares the foreign policy agendas of Obama and LBJ. 

In his latest Shadow Government post, Executive Director William Inboden writes about Iraq and presidential decision making. 

Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Higher Education Director Thomas K. Lindsay highlighted the Clements Center in a Real Clear Policy blog post.

In Professor Inboden’s latest Shadow Government blog post on fp.com, he discusses his recent trip to Chicago to attend a conference on security and privacy co-sponsored by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and Notre Dame’s International Security Program.

Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times, was recently in Austin to promote his new book Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House and to attend the Clements Center’s annual conference “Diplomacy, Alliances and War: Anglo-American Perspectives on History and Strategy in the September 11th Era.”