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This week in diplomatic and military history for November 24th titled “The Grass Fight” is brought to you by Undergraduate Fellow William Cowan.

This week in diplomatic and military history for November 17 titled “The Greeks Invade Albania, 1940” is brought to you by Clements Undergraduate Fellow James Barnett.

This week in diplomatic and military history for November 10 titled “Contemporary Insights from the Fourth Crusade” is brought to you by Clements Undergraduate Fellow Cyrus Huncharek. 

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Executive Director William Inboden published an op-ed in the Austin American-Statesman.

This week in diplomatic and military history is brought to you by Undergraduate Fellow Kevin Powell. His entry for November 3rd is titled “The Battle of Rossbach and the Negotiation of Prussian Power in Europe.”

“This Week in Military and Diplomatic History” is brought to you by Clements Center Undergraduate Fellow David Edwards. His entry for October 27th is “‘Black Saturday’ and the Victory of Diplomacy.”

Foreign Policy magazine contributing editor Christian Caryl gave a lecture on his recent book “Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century” on October 1 on the UT campus. Journalist Adam Hamze covered the talk for The Daily Texan.

On the anniversary of September 11th, Executive Director William Inboden reflects on where he was the day our nation came under attack. 

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 November 2013, the Clements Center, King’s College London, and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law co-hosted the conference “Diplomacy, Alliances, and War: Anglo-American Perspectives on History and Strategy in the September 11th Era” on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. Transcripts from the event are now available online.

Clements Center Senior Fellow Frank Gavin has convened a roundtable discussion comparing how historians and political scientists approach the study of nuclear weapons and strategy.

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.

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.”

Clements Center National Security Fellow Celeste Ward Gventer appeared in a recent edition of the New York Times’ “Room for Debate,” weighing in on how the international community can minimize the risk of a terrorist resurgence in Afghanistan after the U.S. and NATO pull out all troops from the region.

Mark Lawrence, Clements Center Director of Graduate Studies, published The Vietnam War: An International History in Documents (Oxford University Press) on February 28, 2014.

In his piece “The American People Aren’t Ready for China” published on January 23rd, Peter Harris compares the current debates in the U.S. surrounding the rise of China with the historical approaches taken by states to rising powers.

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger spoke about Bill Clements in a video prepared for the Clements Center’s inaugural gala on November 21, 2013.

The Alcalde, the official publication of the Texas Exes, interviewed Professor William Inboden about his time in the White House and how he came up with the concept of the Clements Center. The article was written to commemorate the official launch of the Center at the gala that took place at UT on Thursday, November 21st.

Executive Director Professor William Inboden writes in the Dallas Morning News about Bill Clements’ legacy.

Clements Center Post-Doctoral Fellow Steele Brand will offer an undergraduate course in Spring 2014 through UT’s Department of History.

Read William Inboden’s article published in the May 2013 edition of Diplomatic History. Publications-Inboden.pdf