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The Clements Center’s William Inboden and Paul D. Miller have contributed chapters to a new publication released on September 28 for The John Hay Initiative titled Choosing to Lead: American Foreign Policy for a Disordered World. The hard copy version will be available this fall. 

Executive Director William Inboden discusses the upcoming visits of Pope Francis and Chinese President Xi Jinping to the United States in his latest Foreign Policy piece. 

In November 2014, the Clements Center and War Studies Department at King’s College London hosted 30 current and former academics and practitioners for “Grand Strategy and the Anglo-American Worldview: A Century of the Special Relationship.” The following articles have been published in The American Interest as a result of the panel presentations. 

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

In a new Shadow Government post, Associate Director Paul D. Miller discusses the impact of of the former Taliban leader’s death on the Islamic State and Middle East. 

The Austin American-Statesman invited Clements Center Executive Director William Inboden and Faculty Fellow Jeremi Suri to offer alternative views on the Iran nuclear deal. 

Incoming Graduate Research Student Anna Waterfield and the Clements Center’s 2014-15 Graduate Assistant Ashley Nelle-Davis were featured in an online discussion on VICE News “On the Line” in early July. 

Zhelun Chen, Clements Center Maymester in London participant and UT senior, was interviewed by Galveston County’s The Daily News about his experience on the inaugural program in the United Kingdom.

Heritage Foundation Senior Research Fellow Ted Bromund has published an article in The American Interest based on his presentation at the November 2014 KCL-UT conference on Grand Strategy and the US/UK “Special Relationship.”

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.

Foreign Policy Breakthroughs: Cases in Successful Diplomacy is the title of the forthcoming co-edited book by Professor Jeremi Suri and former LBJ School Dean Robert Hutchings. The book is set to be released around July 9 and is available through Oxford University Press.

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

Joshua Eisenman, Clements Faculty Fellow and LBJ School Assistant Professor, has published an oped in the Wall Street Journal on China’s current and historical expansion to disputed territories.

Clements Faculty Affiliate Jeff Engel has published an article in The American Interest based on his presentation at the November 2014 conference at King’s College London titled “Grand Strategy and the Anglo-American World View: A Century of the Special Relationship.”

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.” 

William Inboden and Dan Blumenthal of the American Enterprise Institute published an article in The Weekly Standard making the case for re-establishing a “freedom prong” in U.S. China policy.

Dr. Inboden questions the terms of the Iranian nuclear deal in his latest Shadow Government piece, “Why Can’t the White House See What’s Wrong with the Iran Deal?”.

Oil & Gas Journal has published a report by Faculty Affiliate Eugene Gholz and his team of 16 LBJ School students about “implications of unconventional oil and gas production technologies for US national security.”

Dr. John Bew, reader in the War Studies Department at King’s College London and co-sponsor of the November 2014 conference on the Anglo-American special relationship, has published an article in The American Interest based on his talk at the event in London this past fall.

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

Executive Director William Inboden was interviewed by William Marsden for Canada’s main newspaper the National Post for an article titled “Always troubled Mideast has entered a very ‘dark period’ – and experts say it’s only getting worse.”

“The best way to memorialize kidnapped and murdered American aid worker Kayla Mueller is not by going to war. It’s by following her example,” says Postdoctoral Fellow Steele Brand in his article published in The Federalist. 

“The longest war in American history is over, but the mission is not accomplished. Now more than ever, the world needs our country to lead,” say Executive Director William Inboden and Associate Director Paul D. Miller in their featured article in the latest issue of The Alcalde.

Executive Director William Inboden remembers Boris Nemtsov in his latest post on Foreign Policy’s Shadow Government.

Associate Director Paul D. Miller has published an article in The American Interest on the democracy promotion, realism, and Niebuhr.

Clements Undergraduate Fellow Jake Barnett has filed this report while studying abroad in Jordan Spring 2015. 

Executive Director William Inboden and Academic Board members Peter Feaver and Kori Schake offer foreign policy advice to President Obama in their latest Shadow Government blog post titled “The Wonkiest Yard.”

Executive Director William Inboden discusses the resurgence of the term “Finlandization” in light of the current crisis in Ukraine in his Shadow Government blog post. 

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.

Professor William Inboden and The Heritage Foundation’s Kim Holmes published an op-ed in The Washington Times on the need for a new foreign policy strategy in 2016. The piece is based on their four-part series for Foreign Policy’s Shadow Government blog. 

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.

Senior Faculty Fellow Frank Gavin recently participated in H-Diplo/ISSF’s Roundtable review of Hal Brands’ What Good Is Grand Strategy: Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush (Cornell University Press, 2014).

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. 

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

Clements Faculty Fellow Joshua Eisenman recently published an article in Foreign Affairs on China’s policies towards foreign business. 

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