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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. 

Executive Director William Inboden was recently interviewed on Capital Tonight about Obama’s ISIS strategy.

In his latest Foreign Policy Shadow Government blog post, Executive Director William Inboden writes about President Obama’s remarks on September 10 regarding the Islamic State.

National Security Fellow Celeste Ward Gventer wrote an op-ed for The New York Times’  “Room for Debate” on NATO’s involvement in the Ukraine. 

Clements Center Graduate Fellow Peter Harris, with the assistance of an article by Grad Fellow Brian McNeil, published an article in The National Interest about humanitarian intervention.

Associate Director Paul D. Miller recently published a blog post for Foreign Policy’s Shadow Government titled “‘Don’t Meddle’ Isn’t a Foreign Policy.”

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.”

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. 

In his latest Shadow Government post for ForeignPolicy.com, Executive Director William Inboden writes about British Prime Minister David Cameron’s significant cabinet upheaval ten months before the next election.

In his latest Shadow Government post for ForeignPolicy.com, Executive Director William Inboden argues that it is time to lift the visa ban on Modi and make the visa ban policy only one part of a comprehensive strategy against acts of religious intolerance.

President Obama made strong remarks regarding his foreign policy agenda while in Manila this week and the Clements Center’s Executive Director writes about it in his latest Shadow Government blog post. 

In his latest Shadow Government post, Executive Director William Inboden discusses President Obama’s Asia trip in the broader context of America’s global alliances and the Pacific pivot.

If you were unable to attend the event with U.S. Senator Marco Rubio on April 15th, you can watch the full talk and Q&A here. 

The University of Texas and the Clements Center for History, Strategy & Statecraft welcomed U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) to UT on April 15th. The Senator talked about America’s role in the world and sat down with Clements Center Executive Director William Inboden for Q&A.

The German Marshall Fund of the United States launched the Emerging Powers Policy Forum in 2013 in which the Clements Center’s Executive Director William Inboden took part and authored a chapter titled “Global Security Challenges Confronting Established and Emerging Powers.”

Peter Harris, Clements Center Graduate Fellow, likened the current situation in Ukraine, and Russia’s intentions in the region, to the 1938 crisis when western elites tried to appease Nazi Germany in his piece in the National Interest titled “Munich’s Lessons for the Ukraine Crisis.”

In an opinion piece for The New York Times, Clements Center Director William Inboden argues recent events in Ukraine prove that Russia does not respect the responsibility and requirements of G-8 membership and should not enjoy its privileges and prestige.

In his latest Shadow Government post on ForeignPolicy.com, Executive Director William Inboden recognizes the release of the latest nonpartisan report issued by Freedom House titled “Freedom in the World.”

Professor Inboden, Executive Director of the Clements Center and curator of the Shadow Govt. blog on ForeignPolicy.com, wrote about the U.S.-French relations in his recent blog post.

Clements Center Graduate Fellow and UT History PhD student Carl Forsberg recently wrote a piece for the new China Journal at Yale China Hands.

Clements Center graduate fellow Peter Harris was recently featured in the comments section of the Canadian International Council’s website OpenCanada.org.

Clements Center Senior Fellow Jeremi Suri’s article regarding Vladimir Putin’s op-ed in the New York Times is featured in Foreign Affairs magazine.