Press | Foreign Affairs

In The Economist‘s special report on Chinese society, Dr. Joshua Eisenman discusses Chinese nationalism. 

Board Chairman, George Seay, offers recommendations on how to increase economic and security ties between the United States and the United Kingdom post-Brexit in his latest article for War on the Rocks. 

In UT’s student newspaper The Daily Texan, Maymester students Mrinalini Shah and Ryan Pakebusch talk about their studies at King’s College London, their dinner with UK MP Jo Cox, and the Brexit referendum.  

Executive Director Will Inboden discusses the similarities of the UK Leave campaign and Trump’s presidential campaign in Foreign Policy. 

Executive Director, Will Inboden, pens a heartfelt article about murdered UK MP Jo Cox for Foreign Policy. 

On the eve of the British vote to stay in or exit the European Union, Professor Inboden poses the question “Should America Care Whether Britain Stays in the EU?” in his latest Foreign Policy article.

Ionut Popescu writes about the connections between foreign-born policymakers and American exceptionalism. 

Professor Steve Slick discusses US-Israel cooperation on cyber activities with Washington Post reporters. 

Sarah Kaiser-Cross and Ellen Scholl discuss Saudi Arabia’s recent blueprint to diversity its economy and reduce dependence on oil. 

Writing for Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Will Inboden writes that “the only sure way to stop the genocide is to defeat ISIS on the battlefield.” 

Shalaka Joshi, a Plan II Honors and Government senior, was honored for her research on Chinese Expansionism. 

The Clements Center for National Security is pleased to announce its 2016 Summer Seminar participants.

Anastasia Bradatan, a third-year majoring in Spanish-Portuguese, Hindi-Urdu, and International Relations and Global Studies, will study in India next year. 

Jake Barnett, a fourth year Plan II Honors, History Honors, and Arabic student, won the prestigious Boren Scholarship to study Swahili in Tanzania in 2016-17. 

Executive Director Will Inboden, ahead of President Obama’s visit to Riyadh this week, wrote that it’s in the nation’s interest to maintain a close partnership with Saudi Arabia.

The Clements Center was cited by National Defense Magazine as one of the innovation hubs in Texas for global affairs research. 

Sarah Kaiser-Cross, a former Clements Center graduate student, wrote an op-ed for Foreign Policy’s Best Defense on the rise of ISIS in Bangladesh. 

Executive Director William Inboden points out the similar foreign policy beliefs and positions that both Trump and Obama hold.

Executive Director William Inboden was recently interviewed by local news stations KVUE and KEYE about the March 22, 2016 terrorist attacks in Brussels.

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 for National Security is pleased to host Ambassador Said Jawad for a talk titled “America’s Longest War: The Afghan Perspective,” on Tuesday, April 5 at 12:15pm in the Main Building, room 212. This event is cosponsored by the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, the South Asia Institute, Alexander Hamilton Society, Student Veterans Association, and the International Affairs Society.

In their recent op-ed in The Philly Inquirer, Clements Center Executive Director William Inboden and the Bush Institute’s Director for Human Freedom Amanda Schnetzer argue that despite many obstacles, the U.S. must regain its ground as a global champion.

In his latest piece, Professor William Inboden discusses the U.S.’s role on the sidelines during the historical meeting between the Pope and the Patriarch.

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

Clements Center Associate Director, Paul Miller’s, book “Armed State Building: Confronting State Failure” reviewed by H-Diplo in a roundtable by preeminent scholars.

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 recent Lawfare blog post, Intelligence Studies Project Director Steve Slick and Clements Center Senior Fellow Bobby Chesney provide context for Inman Award semi-finalist paper titled “Counterterrorism Strategies: Leadership Decapitation vs. Mid-Tier Elimination.” 

Clements Center Executive Director William Inboden co-authors article published in the first issue of The Catalyst: A Journal of Ideas from the George W. Bush Institute titled, “Promoting Democracy and National Security Go Together.”

Clements Center Executive Director William Inboden publishes an article in Foreign Policy titled, “Saudi Arabia’s Religious Intolerance and the Execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.”

Clements Center faculty fellow, Eugene Gholz, quoted in an article published by the New York Times titled, “US Says Iran Launched ‘Provocative’ Rocket Test Near Ships.”

Clements Center graduate fellow, James Martin, publishes article in Real Clear Defense titled “Historical Memory and Military Training: Bringing WHINSEC into the 21st Century.”

This November, Clements Center affiliates published a book titled “The Power of the Past: History and Statecraft” (Brookings Institution Press, 2015).