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Joshua Eisenman, Assistant Professor at the LBJ School, examines the history of the Chinese Communist Party’s political outreach in Africa in his recently published article, “Comrades-in-Arms: The Chinese Communist Party’s Relations with African Political Organizations in the Mao Era, 1949-1976.”

CC Postdoctoral Fellow Evan McCormick joins with Alexandra Evans to draw comparisons between the departures of Trump and Reagan’s first Secretaries of State for The Washington Post. 

We’re delighted to announce a new podcast: ‘Horns of a Dilemma.’

CC Graduate Fellow Emily Whalen discusses Lebanese national security and the upcoming elections. 

In an article for Foreign Policy, CC Executive Director Will Inboden discusses the current negotiations between the Chinese government and the Vatican and explains the historical context and significance of an agreement. 

CC Graduate Fellow Charles Zug joins with Connor Ewing to discuss the history of the State of the Union address for the Washington Post. 

CC Director of Graduate Studies Mark Lawrence reviews a new book on President Nixon and the use of nuclear weapons for coercive diplomacy for the Journal of Cold War Studies. 

CC Executive Director Will Inboden reviews University of Pennsylvania Professor Walter McDougall’s recent book on The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy for an H-Diplo Roundtable. 

In a piece for War on the Rocks, CC Graduate Fellow Bryan Frizzelle examines the Trump administration’s recently released National Security Strategy and the history of the United State’s alliance with NATO. 

CC Associate Director Paul D. Miller wrote about nuclear deterrence and coercive diplomacy for a recent Elephants in the Room piece. 

CC Postdoctoral Fellow Evan McCormick joins with Alexandra Evans to highlight the ways history can inform current challenges at the State Department. 

CC graduate fellow Paul Edgar teams up with David Kneeland (a LBJ School graduate student, Chancellor’s Scholar, and former CC undergraduate fellow) for an article in Foreign Policy.

Fifty years later, Professor Mark Lawrence looks back at the year 1967 and controversy surrounding the American War in Vietnam. 

In a recent NPR article and news segment, Executive Director Will Inboden and CC Faculty Affiliate H.W. Brands take a look at the current administration from the viewpoint of an historian. 

CC Director of Graduate Studies Mark Lawrence reviews the second volume of Stephen Kotkin’s biography of dictator Joseph Stalin for the New York Times. 

CC Executive Director Will Inboden was quoted in The New York Times about presidential history and the gap between promises and policies. 

Graduate Fellow and doctoral candidate in History Emily Whalen writes for Foreign Policy about the idea of a fire-free zone. 

Professor Will Inboden discusses current national security threats, including terrorism, North Korea, and his research on President Ronald Reagan, with The Federalist Radio Hour Podcast.  

The Intelligence Studies Project Director Steve Slick recently reviewed Joel Whitney’s publication Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers in an article published by Lawfare. 

CC Predoctoral Fellow Jon Askonas, who is completing his Ph.D. in international relations at the University of Oxford, writes his reflections on each episode of Ken Burns and Lynn Novak’s PBS Documentary The Vietnam War.

Applications are now open for our 2018 Maymester in London. Apply by November 1st at midnight (EST). 

Galen Jackson investigates the role of domestic politics in President Carter’s strategy in the Middle East from 1977 to 1978.

CC Director of Graduate Studies Mark Lawrence reviews Geoffrey Ward and Ken Burns’ new book “The Vietnam War: An Intimate History” for the Washington Post. 

Clements Director of Graduate Studies Mark Lawrence writes for Humanities about the changing scholarship surrounding the Vietnam War. 

Former CC Postdoctoral Fellow Ian Johnson details the history of World War II’s most famous battle for War on the Rocks.

CC Predoctoral Fellow Jon Askonas published a piece for War on the Rocks on “The Heroic Leader and the Better War from Vietnam to Afghanistan.” 

This July, we convened 20 doctoral students for our annual Summer Seminar in History and Statecraft.

Gathering in DC for the launch of the Texas National Security Review, Executive Director Will Inboden and Associate Director Paul D. Miller discuss the role of history in policymaking with War on the Rocks Editor-in-Chief Ryan Evans. 

For the 70th anniversary of the National Security Act, ISP Senior Fellow Paul Pope writes for Psychology Today about the bipartisan nature of the act. 

Clements Executive Director Will Inboden writes for War on the Rocks about “the law that transformed America.”

CC Executive Director Will Inboden and ISP Director Steve Slick were recently featured in a Foreign Policy piece with a few of their suggested books for summer reading. 

Every year, the Clements Center takes 20 UT undergraduate students to London for a unique four-week Maymester study abroad program to study the US-UK special relationship at King’s College London. 

Director of Graduate Studies Mark Lawrence writes in the Boston Globe about Mark Bowden’s latest book Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the War in Vietnam.

In his article “Moscow’s Assaults on American Democracy Began 80 Years Ago,” Postdoctoral Fellow Ian Johnson explores the history of Soviet interference in American elections. 

In his latest post for Foreign Policy‘s Elephants in the Room, Executive Director Will Inboden argues that yesterday’s two political events–Former FBI Director Comey’s testimony and the British General Election–represent “a transatlantic crisis of leadership.” 

In his most recent article “The Problem with the ‘F’ Word,” Postdoctoral Fellow Ian Johnson explores the history of fascism.