Press | National Security

Associate Director Paul D. Miller was quoted in a Houston Chronicle article on U.S. Senator Ted Cruz’s proposal to revoke passports from American citizens who join ISIS. 

National Security Fellow Celeste Ward Gventer wrote an op-ed for The New York Times’  “Room for Debate” on NATO’s involvement in the Ukraine. 

Several Clements Center scholars worked with the Strategic Studies Institute of the Army War College to produce the new book “Strategic Retrenchment and Renewal in the American Experience.” 

Associate Director Paul D. Miller published a piece in The Federalist in response to a New York Times op-ed about the dangers of calling ISIS “evil.”

Former LBJ School student and recipient of Clements Center research funding, Kaitlin Sharkey recently completed a report titled “Fighting Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula on All Fronts: A U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy in Yemen.”

In his latest post on Foreign Policy’s Shadow Government blog, Executive Director William Inboden writes about airstrikes against the Islamic State and “history’s continual capacity to surprise.”

Professor Inboden was quoted in New York Times White House correspondent Peter Baker’s news analysis titled “As World Boils, Fingers Point Obama’s Way.” 

Clements Center Executive Director William Inboden and Undergraduate Fellow Dan Hamilton were featured on local ABC station KVUE on Friday, August 8th to discuss the current situation in Iraq. 

Clements Center Senior Fellow Frank Gavin has convened a roundtable discussion comparing how historians and political scientists approach the study of nuclear weapons and strategy.

In his latest Shadow Government post for ForeignPolicy.com, Executive Director William Inboden looks at the legacy of Tiananmen Square 25 years after the tragedy.

In an op-ed in The New York Times, Clements Center National Security Fellow Celeste Ward Gventer discusses the release of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl and the difficult choice the U.S. government has to make between negotiating with terrorists and ensuring the safe return of our soldiers.

Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Higher Education Director Thomas K. Lindsay highlighted the Clements Center in a Real Clear Policy blog post.

Clements Center Senior Fellow Jeremi Suri recently posted an article on his website titled “Containing Russian Fascism.”

President Obama made strong remarks regarding his foreign policy agenda while in Manila this week and the Clements Center’s Executive Director writes about it in his latest Shadow Government blog post. 

In his latest Shadow Government post, Executive Director William Inboden discusses President Obama’s Asia trip in the broader context of America’s global alliances and the Pacific pivot.

In April, the Clements Center partnered with the Marine Corps Command and Staff College in Quantico, Virginia for a major policy exercise on security challenges in SouthEast Asia.  Over 350 military officers and civilian policymakers participated in the two week simulation, titled “Exercise Nine Innings.” 

If you were unable to attend the event with U.S. Senator Marco Rubio on April 15th, you can watch the full talk and Q&A here. 

The University of Texas and the Clements Center for History, Strategy & Statecraft welcomed U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) to UT on April 15th. The Senator talked about America’s role in the world and sat down with Clements Center Executive Director William Inboden for Q&A.

From April 3-4, the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law and the William P. Clements Jr. Center for History, Strategy & Statecraft hosted a public conference exploring the legal, policy, and technological environments in which the NSA operations.

The German Marshall Fund of the United States launched the Emerging Powers Policy Forum in 2013 in which the Clements Center’s Executive Director William Inboden took part and authored a chapter titled “Global Security Challenges Confronting Established and Emerging Powers.”

Peter Harris, Clements Center Graduate Fellow, likened the current situation in Ukraine, and Russia’s intentions in the region, to the 1938 crisis when western elites tried to appease Nazi Germany in his piece in the National Interest titled “Munich’s Lessons for the Ukraine Crisis.”

Professor Eugene Gholz argues for more targeted investments in the military to rebuild the relationship between the Army and industry in his commentary in the “critical thinking” section of the Army AL&T magazine.

Eugene Gholz, Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, discusses the evolution and production of weapons platforms since the end of the Cold War in his piece co-written with Harvey M. Sapolsky in The National Interest titled “End of the Line.”

In his piece “The American People Aren’t Ready for China” published on January 23rd, Peter Harris compares the current debates in the U.S. surrounding the rise of China with the historical approaches taken by states to rising powers.

Robert Chesney, Clements Center Senior Fellow and Director of the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, published an opinion piece on January 22nd in the Austin American-Statesman regarding Edward Snowden and privacy concerns.

Celeste Ward Gventer, National Security Fellow at the Clements Center, published an edited volume with Palgrave Macmillan on January 22nd, 2014.

Clements Center Graduate Fellow and student at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, Brandon Archuleta, was recently featured in The New York Times piece “After Years at War, the Army Adapts to Garrison Life.”

Clements Center graduate fellow Peter Harris was recently featured in the comments section of the Canadian International Council’s website OpenCanada.org.

The inaugural class supported by the Clements Center’s Summer Student Development Fund is already making its voice heard in the global policy discussion.