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In his most recent blog post for ForeignPolicy.com, Professor William Inboden poses a series of questions based on President Barack Obama’s interviews with The Atlantic on his foreign policy. 

The Clements Center, Strauss Center, and UT’s Intelligence Studies Project invite you to attend the “Intelligence in American Society” conference on March 30, 2016 at the AT&T Hotel and Conference Center. The luncheon keynote speaker is The Honorable Lisa O. Monaco, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism. Cosponsors include the LBJ School of Public Affairs, the Center for Politics and Governance, UT Student Veterans Services, and the Alexander Hamilton Society. 

Clements Center Associate Director, Paul Miller, publishes article in The American Interest titled “Obama’s Failed Legacy in Afghanistan.”

In an interview with the Texas Standard, Clements Center Executive Director, Will Inboden, discusses President Obama’s tough road ahead in foreign policy. 

In a response published in the most recent issue of the Harvard Law Review, Intelligence Studies Project Director Steve Slick challenged the recommendations for enhanced White House oversight of U.S. intelligence activities. 

Former Clements Center Postdoctoral Fellow, Steele Brand, co-authors article published in USA Today titled, “Let’s kill them first: answer to terror is tougher citizens, not tougher government.”

Eugene Gholz, Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, discusses how political choices, not mergers shape industry in a piece published in Defense News.

Clements Center Senior Fellow Bobby Chesney quoted in a New York Times article titled, “How 4 Federal Lawyers Pave the Way to Kill Osama bin Laden.”

In an Interview with BBC News, Clements Center Executive Director, William Inboden discusses the president’s need for reliable intelligence and the challenges of national security policy making at the White House. 

Executive Director William Inboden provides commentary on President Obama’s Iran speech in his latest piece on ForeignPolicy.com. 

Strauss Center Director and Clements Senior Fellow Robert Chesney was quoted in a New York Times article by Charlie Savage on Obama’s promise to close Guantanamo Bay.

Executive Director William Inboden outlines multiple areas where the comparisons between Presidents Obama and Reagan fall short in his latest Shadow Government piece. 

From November 19-21, 2015, the Clements Center for National Security and Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law will sponsor the second annual National Security Forum at the University of Texas at Austin. This year’s event, “Great Powers, Failed States, and New Frontiers: National Security Challenges in the 21st Century,” will explore the security challenges the U.S. currently faces, and how our national security institutions are positioned to respond.

Executive Director William Inboden has been quoted in an AP story about Jeb Bush’s upcoming trip to Europe before announcing his presidential bid. 

Director of Graduate Studies Professor Mark Lawrence believes “that political fallout from the Iraq war could prove to be less radioactive than that of Vietnam, which took decades to play itself out.” 

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.”