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Ionut Popescu writes about the connections between foreign-born policymakers and American exceptionalism. 

Shalaka Joshi, a Plan II Honors and Government senior, was honored for her research on Chinese Expansionism. 

Thomas C. Reed, the 11th Secretary of the Air Force, argues that “It’s Eisenhower Time for the Republicans.” 

Executive Director Will Inboden will introduce a panel on Thursday 4/28 about “Lessons Learned” from the Vietnam War. 

The conference’s organizers invite paper proposals based on original research that offer new accounts of U.S. foreign and national security policy from 1981 to 1989 (and welcome those that may also partly extend into the Jimmy Carter or George H. W. Bush presidencies). 

In his review “Chalked Spikes and Bush-era Intelligence”, Steve Slick, Director of the Intelligence Studies Project, discusses the newly published memoir from Michael Hayden, former Director of the CIA and NSA. 

The Clements Center for National Security is pleased to host Ambassador Said Jawad for a talk titled “America’s Longest War: The Afghan Perspective,” on Tuesday, April 5 at 12:15pm in the Main Building, room 212. This event is cosponsored by the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, the South Asia Institute, Alexander Hamilton Society, Student Veterans Association, and the International Affairs Society.

In their recent op-ed in The Philly Inquirer, Clements Center Executive Director William Inboden and the Bush Institute’s Director for Human Freedom Amanda Schnetzer argue that despite many obstacles, the U.S. must regain its ground as a global champion.

Steve Slick, Director of the Intelligence Studies Project, featured in the 62 episode of ‘The Hook‘, a weekly UT news show. 

Clements Center Program Coordinator Madeline Fetterly publishes article in The Cipher Brief titled “How the Revival of Confucianism Hurts Women in China.” 

Former Clements Center Postdoctoral Fellow, Steele Brand, publishes peer reviewed article titled, “This is Our Jerusalem: Early American Evangelical Localizations of the Hebraic Republic.” 

Clements Center Executive Director William Inboden publishes an article in Foreign Policy titled, “Saudi Arabia’s Religious Intolerance and the Execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.”

Clements Center Associate Director Paul D. Miller, co-authors an article in Foreign Policy titled, “In a Counterinsurgency Far, Far Away.”

Clements Center postdoctoral fellow, Michael Taylor, quoted in an article published by The National Interest titled, “Hanukkah: A Jewish Festival of Guerrilla Warfare.”

Clements Center graduate fellow, James Martin, publishes article in Real Clear Defense titled “Historical Memory and Military Training: Bringing WHINSEC into the 21st Century.”

This November, Clements Center affiliates published a book titled “The Power of the Past: History and Statecraft” (Brookings Institution Press, 2015). 

The Clements Center for National Security and the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, both units of the University of Texas at Austin, are proud to present the Clements National Security Papers Project. 

Clements Center Postdoctoral Fellow, Michael Taylor, to teach Spring 2016 class titled, “Military History of the Ancient Mediterranean.”  

Charlie Laderman a Professor at Cambridge University and panelist at the Clements Center’s conference at King’s College London titled “Grand Strategy and the Anglo-American World View” recently published an article in Diplomatic History titled, “Sharing the Burden? The American Solution to the Armenian Question, 1918-1920.”

In a New York Times Sunday Book Review Clements Center Director for Graduate Studies, Mark Lawrence, reviews ‘Kissinger’s Shadow,’ by Greg Grandin.

On September 15 & 16, CIA Director John Brennan was at the University of Texas to speak about “Intelligence in American Society” and the release of Presidential Daily Briefs from the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Below are a selection of news items from his visit.

In November 2014, the Clements Center and War Studies Department at King’s College London hosted 30 current and former academics and practitioners for “Grand Strategy and the Anglo-American Worldview: A Century of the Special Relationship.” The following articles have been published in The American Interest as a result of the panel presentations. 

Executive Director William Inboden provides commentary on President Obama’s Iran speech in his latest piece on ForeignPolicy.com. 

Joshua Eisenman, Clements Faculty Fellow and LBJ School Assistant Professor, has published an oped in the Wall Street Journal on China’s current and historical expansion to disputed territories.

Clements Faculty Affiliate Jeff Engel has published an article in The American Interest based on his presentation at the November 2014 conference at King’s College London titled “Grand Strategy and the Anglo-American World View: A Century of the Special Relationship.”

This week in diplomatic and military history for May 7 titled “The Sinking of the Lusitania” is brought to you by Undergraduate Fellow Chase Boone.  

This week in diplomatic and military history for April 27th titled “Victory or Death” is brought to you by Undergraduate Fellow Anastasia Bradatan.

This week in diplomatic and military history for April 20 titled “Mariel Boatlift” is brought to you by Undergraduate Fellow Trey Curran. 

This week in diplomatic and military history for April 13th titled “The Beginning of the American Revolution: The Battles of Lexington and Concord” is brought to you by Undergraduate Fellow Geetika Jerath. 

This week in diplomatic and military history titled “The Fall of Richmond, 1865” is brought to you by Undergraduate Fellow Ciaran Dean-Jones.

This week in diplomatic and military history for March 9 titled “Instability and the Fall of Baghdad, 1917” is brought to you by Clements Undergraduate Fellow Cyrus Huncharek.

This week in diplomatic and military history for March 2 titled “The Threat of Islamic Traditions in Soviet Central Asia” is brought to you by Clements Undergraduate Fellow Jordan Pahl. 

Executive Director William Inboden blogs about the upcoming Republican primary and the “competition to be Reagan’s political heir” in his latest Shadow Government post. 

The “Presidential Power, Then and Now” lecture series will be hosted by the Clements Center in the spring of 2015. The series will examine the origins of presidential power and how the framers conceived of the office of the presidency.

In a Sunday Book Review for The New York Times, Clements Director of Graduate Studies and UT History Professor Mark Lawrence discusses Debi and Irwin Unger and Stanley Hirschon’s recent biography of General George C. Marshall.

This week in diplomatic and military history for December 1 & 8 titled “Outmanned, Undersupplied, Outgunned: Yamashita’s Feint” is brought to you by Clements Undergraduate Fellow Keith Chew.