Press | National Security

Strauss Center Director and UT Law School Professor Robert Chesney was recently interviewed by The Cipher Brief about the legal use of drone strikes abroad. 

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. 

Carl Forsberg, a PhD student in the Department of History at UT-Austin, published his work in two separate volumes of collected chapters on countering power structures during and after war. 

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.

Former Undergraduate Fellow Jake Barnett writes about Somalia’s elections and U.S.-supported counterinsurgency operations. 

Leading figures from the executive branch, the intelligence community and academia joined the Herzstein Texas National Security Forum at the University of Texas at Austin to discuss the national security issues facing the next President and the impact of Presidential transitions on the nation’s security.

A new fellowship opportunity announced for graduate students who are interested in a national security-related internship in DC during Summer 2017. 

Following the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11, Executive Director Will Inboden speaks at The Trinity Forum for an Evening Conversation on what constitutes a just war when the enemy is part of a non-state terrorist group. 

Leading figures from the executive branch, the intelligence community and academia joined the Herzstein Texas National Security Forum at the University of Texas at Austin to discuss the national security issues facing the next President and the impact of Presidential transitions on the nation’s security.

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

Starting December 2016, interested students can register for our new Undergraduate Certificate in Security Studies.

As the nation prepares to elect its 45th president in November, the Clements and Strauss Centers at UT Austin will host a two-day forum to discuss the key national security challenges facing the next president.

Executive Director Will Inboden, along with John Bew, Academic Director of the Clements Maymester in London program, and Robert Jervis, a member of the Clements Academic Board, contributed to a policy roundtable on the Chilcot Report on British Involvement in the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. 

Dr. Eugene Gholz, an Associate Professor at the LBJ School, was quoted in a New York Times article about U.S.-Iranian confrontations near the Strait of Hormuz last week.

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. 

The Clements Center’s Student Professional Development Fund enables 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 their latest op-ed for the Dallas Morning News, Executive Director Will Inboden and ISP Director Steve Slick present a summary of their students’ findings from the “Intelligence in American Society” course. 

ISP Director Steve Slick offers recommendations on how presidential candidates can improve their national security platform.

Executive Director, Will Inboden, offers recommendations on how to use the full spectrum of American power to destroy the Islamic State. 

On Thursday, April 28th panelists gathered to discuss “Lessons Learned” from the Vietnam War, focusing on the war’s effect on America’s foreign and military policy and role on the world stage. 

Nine LBJ School students from the Policy Research Project on Intelligence in American Society taught by Will Inboden and Steve Slick recently returned from Washington, D.C. where they briefed senior U.S. Intelligence Community officials on policy recommendations that emerged from their year-long study of intelligence oversight.

Professor Steve Slick discusses US-Israel cooperation on cyber activities with Washington Post reporters. 

In an op-ed by former World Bank President Robert Zoellick, Nina Silove‘s work in International Security was referenced. 

Writing for Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Will Inboden writes that “the only sure way to stop the genocide is to defeat ISIS on the battlefield.” 

The Intelligence Studies Project of the University of Texas at Austin announces the second round of an annual competition recognizing outstanding student research and writing on topics related to intelligence and national security.

On April 29th, 2016, General Michael V. Hayden sat down with Admiral Bobby R. Inman for a discussion on “Intelligence and National Security” at UT Austin. Topics ranged from General Hayden’s new book Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror to bureaucracy in the CIA. General Hayden answered questions from the audience…

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

Executive Director Will Inboden, ahead of President Obama’s visit to Riyadh this week, wrote that it’s in the nation’s interest to maintain a close partnership with Saudi Arabia.

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). 

The Clements Center was cited by National Defense Magazine as one of the innovation hubs in Texas for global affairs research. 

Executive Director Will Inboden and Clements Center Graduate Assistant Anna Waterfield co-author a new piece in Foreign Policy, discussing jihadist groups in Africa. 

Sarah Kaiser-Cross, a former Clements Center graduate student, wrote an op-ed for Foreign Policy’s Best Defense on the rise of ISIS in Bangladesh. 

The Clements Center for National Security and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law hosted U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter at UT Austin on March 31st, 2016.

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.