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“The War of the Pacific, Technology and U.S. Naval Development: An International History of Regional War” appears in the October 2018 edition of The Journal of Military History. EBSCO access is required to view. 

Will Inboden, Director of the Clements Center and the Editor-in-Chief of TNSR, moderates a discussion at the Texas Tribune Festival in the latest podcast from War on the Rocks. Panelists include former CIA Director John Brennan, former Commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command William McRaven, former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Nicholas Rasmussen,…

The Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin seeks applications from current PhD candidates for its Predoctoral Fellowship Program and recent PhD recipients for its Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.

Shilpa Bakre with UT News covers recent Clements and Strauss Centers event with Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer.

Evan D. McCormick, the Robert P. Smith Scholar-in-Residence at the Roxbury Latin School and adjunct professor at Simmons University, chairs a new TNSR policy roundtable on Reagan’s foreign policy legacy.

Applications are now open for our 2019 Summer Seminar program. Apply by Monday, February 11th.

Listen to the second episode in a two-part podcast from the Texas National Security Review, a discussion about the national security dimensions of food insecurity with former UT chancellor and former commander of Special Operations Command retired Adm. William McRaven and Congressman Michael McCaul, Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security.

R Street Institute Senior National Security Fellow Megan Reiss authors new piece on the latest round of Russian hacking indictments in Lawfare.

LBJ student and Clements Center Graduate Fellow Kelsey Ritchie argues the need for security clearance processing reform as a matter of national security.

2019 London Maymester study abroad program applications now open until Monday, November 5th.

Listen to the latest podcast from the Texas National Security Review, a discussion about the national security dimensions of food insecurity with former UT chancellor and former commander of Special Operations Command retired Adm. William McRaven and Congressman Michael McCaul, Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security.

Executive Director Will Inboden and Faculty Fellow Josh Eisenman were referenced in The Richmond Times-Dispatch and The Washington Post (respectively) for their perspectives on the threat from China’s hegemonic aspirations.

On Sept. 26th, Clements Center Executive Director Will Inboden testified before the HASC on the subject of “The Impact of National Defense on the Economy, Diplomacy, and International Order”. 

“Vietnam’s Indelible Legacy: How the War Changed International Policymaking:” War on the Rocks Managing Editor Usha Sahay sat down with Clements Center Executive Director Will Inboden, Associate Director Celeste Ward Gventer, and Faculty Affiliates Mark Atwood Lawrence and Aaron O’Connell to discuss the enduring influence of the Vietnam War on modern-day scholars and policymakers.  

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. The program includes visits to important landmarks in British cultural heritage and Anglo-American strategic history, as well as private events with senior policymakers and historians.  

The Texas National Security Review brought together four distinguished scholars to review Melvyn Leffler’s Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism: U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security, 1920-2015. Leffler is the Edward Stettinius Professor of History at the University of Virginia and a member of our Academic Board. 

Rachel Hoff, MGPS ’14, will receive the Rising Leader Award at this year’s LBJ School Alumni Weekend reunion for her notable contributions to legislative, defense, and security policy in a remarkably short time.

In War on the Rocks’ podcast series “Horns of a Dilemma,” Clements Center’s Will Inboden and Celeste Ward Gventer, Strauss Center Director Bobby Chesney, and ISP Director Steve Slick discuss Sen. Ben Sasse’s Cyber Solarium.   

LBJ students participated in an ISP-sponsored Policy Research Project during the 2017-2018 academic year led by Clements Center Faculty Fellow and ISP Senior Fellow J. Paul Pope. The report examines the integration and cooperation between the intelligence community and special operations forces in the years leading up to and after the terrorist attacks on September 11,…

Steve Slick publishes “U.S. Intelligence Should Embrace Sasse’s Solarium Commission” in War on the Rocks. “We sorely need new thinking, broader consensus, and greater urgency on cyber policy.” 

In War on the Rocks, Celeste Ward Gventer compares the Trump Administration’s Space Force to organizational constructs the Department of Defense has pursued in the past. She discuss the option of creating a “space corps” inside the Air Force, establishing a functional combatant command, and creating a whole new branch of the U.S. military. In the…

Each July, the Clements Center convenes a week long seminar for doctoral students focused on the connections between statecraft and history. 

Clements Center Associate Director Celeste Ward Gventer appeared on Spectrum News’ Capital Tonight to discuss President Trump’s plans for a Space Force.

The Intelligence Studies Project of The University of Texas at Austin is pleased to announce the winner and two semifinalists in its fourth annual competition recognizing outstanding student research and writing on topics related to intelligence and national security.

Is a major war coming? War on the Rocks Editor-in-Chief Ryan Evans sat down with Clements Center Executive Director Will Inboden, Colin Kahl, Kori Schake, Hal Brands and Frank Gavin to discuss whether major inter-state war is likely in the next several years.

Executive Director Will Inboden explores the potential ramifications of President Trump’s conduct in Helinski in an op-ed for Foreign Policy.

In an interview with the Texas Standard, Clements Center Executive Director Will Inboden says those who are familiar with North Korea’s history are not surprised by these latest revelations. 

As part of the 2017-18 Undergraduate Fellows Program, our Fellows wrote op-eds on a national security topic of their choice. This year, we selected three to share on our website for those students who submitted outstanding work. 

On Monday, June 18th, 2018, The Clements Center held a reception for D.C based alumni to connect with old friends and meet new ones who have been affiliated with the Clements Center. Clements alumni in D.C are now serving in different national security and policy roles including the Senate Armed Services Committee, The Department of State, The Atlantic Council and The American Enterprise Institute.

The Clements Center’s Student Professional Development Fund provides UT undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to intern at some of the top governmental and non-governmental organizations across the world by providing monetary support for unpaid positions. 

In “Washington Needs a New Solarium Project To Counter Cyberthreats,” published in Foreign Policy, Inboden and Feaver compare and contrast Senator Ben Sasse’s proposed Cyberspace Solarium Commission to President Dwight Eisenhower’s Project Solarium exercise in 1953.

Clements Center Associate Director Celeste Ward Gventer sat down with Spectrum News to discuss what we might expect after Donald Trump’s “unprecedented” meeting with Kim Jong Un.

Lieutenant (j.g.) Mark Jbeily, U.S. Navy and former Clements Center Undergraduate Fellow, took home first place for his submission to the US Naval Institute’s Emerging and Disruptive Technologies essay contest.  

In “Trump Doesn’t Need a Grand Strategy,” Ionut Popescu discusses emergent strategy and grand strategy in the Trump administration, published in Foreign Affairs.

A polling project launched by the Texas National Security Network last summer sought to determine Americans’ perception of intelligence agencies.  

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