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Isabel Ayala has been named to the 2023 class of Schwarzman scholars, one of the world’s most prestigious graduate fellowships, located at Schwarzman College on the campus of Tsinghua University in Beijing. 

The Clements Center mourns the death of Professor Bob Jervis of Columbia University. One of the most eminent and influential political scientists of the past century, he was a valued member of our academic board of reference, a mentor to a number of our scholars, an instructor at our Summer Seminar in History and Statecraft,…

Former Clements graduate fellow Ashlyn Hand’s book review published in Oxford Journal of Church and State.

Mark Lawrence’s new book, The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era, is a groundbreaking new history of how the Vietnam War thwarted U.S. liberal ambitions in the developing world and at home in the 1960s.

In an interview with Texas Standard, Clements Faculty Fellow and Founding Director of the Asia Policy Project, Sheena Chestnut Greitens, explains what is behind rising tensions between China and Taiwan and how that will affect the U.S. 

Daniel J. Samet is a Ph.D. student in History at the University of Texas at Austin and a Graduate Fellow at the Clements Center for National Security. He researches U.S. foreign policy with a focus on relations with the Middle East. Daniel previously worked at the Atlantic Council and the National Endowment for Democracy. The…

While most people think of North Korea today as an isolated pariah state, the “hermit kingdom” exercised significant influence among Third World nations during the Cold War. North Korean leader Kim Il Sung sent advisors to assist African liberation movements, trained anti-imperialist guerrilla fighters, and completed building projects in developing countries. State-run media coverage of events in the Third World shaped the worldview of many North Koreans and helped them imagine a unified global anti-imperialist front with North Korea at the vanguard. In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Professor Benjamin Young of Virginia Commonwealth University discusses these developments, as detailed in his book, Guns, Guerrillas, and the Great Leader: North Korea and the Third World. This talk was sponsored by the Clements Center at the University of Texas, Austin, and was hosted by Professor Sheena Greitens of the LBJ School at the University of Texas, Austin.

Sheena C. Greitens, director of the Asia Policy Program and Associate Professor of Public Affairs at the LBJ School, explains China’s behavior changes on CNN. She says we are seeing more repression at home and assertion abroad; these actions are both for domestic consumption and changing China’s place and role in the world.

Mark Pomar, Senior Fellow at the Clements Center for National Security, was a guest on UKRLIFE.TV (Ukrainian Internet TV) on September 27, 2021. In a far-ranging interview, conducted in Russian, Pomar discussed the policies of the Biden Administration, the state of politics in the United States, US – China relations, and the threats to democracy in…

Clements Center postdoctoral fellow M. L. deRaismes Combes traces the history of counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine across Francophone Africa and Southeast Asia to better understand how it is used or misused today. “Perhaps because many counterinsurgency tactics have evolved and been adapted away from those used in the nineteenth century, analysis of contemporary COIN often ignores the…

Click on the link to hear Clement Center’s Will Inboden discuss the new AUKUS defense pact as a deterrent to Chinese military influence on “The World and Everything in It”.

The China-US relationship is incredibly complex. ” …managing the relationship would be a difficult “dance” for the Biden administration, but the US should not sacrifice its interests to work with China on global issues, such as climate change.” Read more of Feher’s thoughts about the role of high-level communications by clicking the link above.

“It’s a mistake to say America fought a 20-year war only for Negin Khpalwak’s orchestra or female literacy or Kabul film festivals. But it’s also true that the war to keep the Taliban in their caves created the space for civil society to grow, particularly in the big cities.” Clements Center National Security Journalism Fellow Eli Lake expounds on…

Daniel Samet addresses PRC influence in Jerusalem.

“Somewhere in America today a dozen or so families will get that horrible knock on the door from uniformed Marines, Soldiers or Sailors informing them of the loss of their loved one.  Their son, daughter, father, mother …. I cannot imagine what could be worse …. Receiving the news or giving it….. I have done the…