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In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Dr. Rana Inboden discusses her new book, China and the International Human Rights Regime, which details (among other things) how one of those states, China, used its position on the council during the institution building phase to try to undercut the strength and effectiveness of the council’s tools.

Clements Graduate Fellow Daniel J. Samet has a new piece in Commentary magazine in which he discusses Israel’s handling of its relationships with India, Japan, and South Korea as well as the future of Israeli diplomacy in Asia.

Few countries in Europe have experienced the vicissitudes of changing political order as directly as Poland. For centuries, Poland was caught between Russia and Germany, often serving as a highway through which one great power or another traveled en route to conquering other territories. This week’s Horns of a Dilemma speaker knows this better than most: Lech Walesa was the leader of the Solidarity labor movement in Poland under Communist rule and later became the first freely elected president of Poland.

Predoctoral Fellow Zoltán Fehér has recently returned from Hungary, where he had several academic and professional engagements.

In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, we hear first-hand about how the tools that are available–often abbreviated as DIME for diplomacy, information, military, and economics–were used during the last administration to try to influence the authoritarian regimes in Venezuela and Cuba.

Dr. Jeremi Suri, Zachary Suri, and Dr. Emily Whalen and discuss the history and current situation of the civil war in Syria, Russia’s involvement in that civil war, and how that conflict parallels the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Boren Scholarships provide up to $25,000 to U.S. undergraduate students to study abroad in areas of the world that are critical to U.S. interests and underrepresented in study abroad. 

Clements Senior National Security Fellow Mark Pomar was recently interviewed by the Russian-language Voice of America regarding the current situation in Ukraine. 

In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, we hear from author and journalist Joby Warrick about his new book, Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and America’s Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World.

In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Professor Danielle Gilbert joins TNSR Executive Editor Doyle Hodges to talk about the concept of hostage diplomacy, and whether or how it may be at work in tensions between Russia and the West arising from Russia’s aggressive war in Ukraine.

Clements National Security Journalism Fellow Eli Lake published a piece in Commentary Magazine on the ways Russia’s actions in Ukraine have altered the world order, and what should be done about it. 

Alexandra Sukalo, a postdoctoral fellow at the Clements Center, published an op-ed in the Washington Post on the recent damage done to Ukrainian archives by Russian forces.

Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Founding Director of the Asia Policy Program, was quoted in a Financial Times article regarding the economic consequences China may face for their support of Russia. 

For nearly two decades, the top security concern of U.S. leaders regarding Iran has been preventing the leaders of the Islamic Republic from attaining this same power. In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Will Inboden and Michael Singh discuss the history, current status, and future of these efforts.

Kay Bailey Hutchison and Will Inboden’s opinion piece on energy security in light of the current war in Ukraine was published in the Houston Chronicle.

Clements Graduate Fellow Bryan Frizzelle, a PhD candidate at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, appeared on the “This is Democracy” podcast with Faculty Fellow Jeremi Suri to discuss the history of NATO and its importance to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.