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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. 

Every year the Alcalde magazine highlights ten inspiring professors, nominated by UT alumni. This year, Executive Director Will Inboden received the honor. 

Executive Director Will Inboden talked with a Business Insider reporter about foreign policy and human rights. 

Predoctoral Fellow Cindy Ewing writes for the Wilson Center about Burma’s foreign policy during the Cold War. 

Postdoctoral Fellow Ian Johnson recently published his work in Victims of Communism’s Dissident Blog and academic journal Orbis. 

Associate Director Paul D. Miller reviews Harrington Faculty Fellow Charlie Laderman and Brendan Simms new book. 

Former Postdoctoral Fellow Olivia Sohns published an article in Diplomacy & Statecraft about President Johnson’s early congressional support for Israel. 

Predoctoral Fellow Cindy Ewing joins the Wilson Center as a contributor to its History and Public Policy Program. For the Wilson Center’s newest blog, Sources and Methods, she writes about the hidden Cold War archives of the Third World.

Director of Graduate Studies Mark Lawrence writes for the New York Times about policymaker’s limited ability to exert power in other parts of the world while the Vietnam War was being waged in southeast Asia. 

Executive Director Will Inboden explores how three mid-twentieth-century presidents transformed the United States in A Global History of the Twentieth Century: Legacies and Lessons from Six National Perspectives, edited by Michael Green and Nicholas Szechenyi. 

UT Harrington Fellow Charlie Laderman writes for Foreign Policy about the history of President Trump’s worldview.

UT student reporter Kayla Meyertons interviewed panelists and students about the legacy of Ronald Reagan and the benefit of conferences on presidential foreign policy. 

LBJ Professor Joshua Eisenman discusses the implications of President Elect Trump’s phone call with Taiwan’s President. 

The Clements Center for National Security is offering three opportunities that might be of interest to doctoral students or recent PhDs. 

Writing for the Dallas Morning News and Austin American-Statesmen, Executive Director Will Inboden argues that the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attacks should remind Americans that the world is a better place when the U.S. leads from the front. 

Harrington Fellow Charlie Laderman is interviewed for the Library of Congress’ Kluge Center podcast. 

Historians from around the country gathered at UT-Austin on Friday, November 18th, to discuss major trends in U.S. policymaking in the mid-1970s. 

Graduate Fellow Emily Whalen writes a guest column for Foreign Policy about how historical lessons from the Suez Crisis can help the President-elect avoid a foreign policy crisis in the Middle East. 

Michael Taylor, a Clements Center Postdoctoral Fellow from 2015-2016 published an article in the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome Journal on Roman military organization.

Postdoctoral Fellow Ian Johnson writes about the “little-known yet revealing” peasant revolt in Tambov province from 1920 to 1921 for Victims of Communism’s Dissident Blog. 

Associate Director Paul D. Miller talks with Politico Magazine’s Mark Perry on the fifteenth anniversary of the start of America’s war in Afghanistan.

Dr. Johnson’s Spring 2017 course “American and Russian Relations through War and Peace” will explore the relationship between Russia and the United States, from 1776 to present, focusing on military and diplomatic interactions. 

Associate Director Paul D. Miller discussed his new book American Power and Liberal Order with Federalist Radio Hour.

In a three part series, Dr. Ian Johnson writes about the history of the Cambodian mass killings under the Khmer Rouge party and Communist leader Pol Pot.

Daily Texan reporter Reagan Ritterbush writes about our recent event with Dr. Michael Ledeen, Freedom Scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. 

Commentators from the Providence Magazine, New York Post, Power Line Blog, and others discuss Executive Director Will Inboden‘s recent article in Foreign Policy. 

Executive Director Will Inboden wrote a review of Jean Edward Smith’s new biography of former President George W. Bush for Foreign Policy’s Shadow Government. 

Michael Taylor, who was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Clements Center during the 2015-2016 academic year, published an article titled “The Battle Scene on Aemilius Pallus’s Pydna Monument: A Reevaluation” in the peer-reviewed journal Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. 

Summer Seminar participants wrote in War on the Rocks about the lessons they learned.

In a podcast discussion for the Lowy Institute for International Policy about historical analogies in foreign policymaking, Sir Lawrence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King’s College London, references an article written by Dr. Paul D. Miller in the Journal of Strategic Studies on the misuse of historical analogies in the Afghanistan War. 

Incoming Predoctoral Fellow Cindy Ewing, who is a Ph.D candidate at Yale University in Global History, wrote a report of her time in Beaver Creek at the Clements Center’s annual Summer Seminar. 

Through research funded by the Clements Center, Postdoctoral Fellow Michael Taylor wrote the article “The Attalid victory at Magnesia on a lost plaque from Pergamon,” which was recently included in the peer-reviewed Anatolian Studies journal. 

Nathan Finney, currently pursuing his Ph.D in History at the University of Kansas, wrote an article for The Strategy Bridge about the Clements Center’s Summer Seminar in History and Statecraft.