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Take a look back at our Spring 2022 Semester! 

In an oped on The Hill, Will Inboden, Executive Director of the Clements Center, and Adam Klein, Deputy Director of the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, explain how semiconductor supply chains are hurting Russia in their war on Ukraine and how they could potentially damage U.S. national security.

With support from the America in the World Consortium, the Clements Center for National Security (University of Texas at Austin), in cooperation with the Kissinger Center for Global Affairs (Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies), and the Duke University Program in American Grand Strategy, invited students, scholars and policy practitioners to submit proposals for a one-day conference on issues facing the Indo-Pacific region and its role in American foreign policy and strategy.

The University of Texas at Austin has selected Robert (Bobby) Chesney to serve as the next dean of the School of Law.

On Thursday, May 5^th, the Clements Center for National Security hosted Lech Wałęsa, Former Polish President and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, for an event on “Russia’s War on Ukraine and Its Global Impact.” This event was spearheaded by the Polish Club at UT and was cosponsored by the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, the Center for European Studies, the Department of Government, the Liberal Arts Honors Program, the McCombs School of Business Department of Business, Government & Society, and Texas Global.

Last week, The Clements Center sent 10 graduate students to the U.S Army War College to participate in their first US Army War College Strategy Competition.

The Clements Center is excited to announce that our podcast platform “Horns of a Dilemma” brought to you by the Texas National Security Review, has joined the Texas Podcast Network. We’re looking forward to joining this collection of podcasts recorded and produced at the Forty Acres.

Michael Knickerbocker, a Federal Executive Fellow at the Clements Center, wrote an oped for The Hill on why electronic vehicles would be a positive change for the US Military.

Clausewitz–or at least the version of Clausewitz that is taught in many war colleges–has bedeviled generations of students by offering several “trinities.” First, there is the relationship between emotion, chance, and reason which governs events in war. Emotion itself can be broken down as a balance between hatred, violence, and primordial enmity.  At the level…

We have updated the list of Fall 2022 courses that will apply for the Undergraduate Certificate in Security Studies. 

Clements Center Military Fellow Michael Knickerbocker publishes “Send Skimmers to the Skirmish: A Case for a Wing-In-Ground Effect Attack Craft” for the Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC).

Executive Editor of the Texas National Security Review, Doyle Hodges, recently appeared on the Think podcast. 

Nick Romanow, formerly a Clements Undergraduate Fellow, championed the need for military officers to have well-rounded educations in addition to thorough training experiences.

Commander Michael Knickerbocker, a Federal Executive Fellow at the Clements Center, recently published a piece on The Defense Post outlining the benefits of the U.S. Department of Defense switching over to electric vehicles. 

In an oped on The Hill, Will Inboden, Executive Director of the Clements Center, and Adam Klein, Deputy Director of the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, explain why the U.S. semiconductor supply should be treated as a matter of national security.

Prior to the invasion of Ukraine, Russian cyber and information operations boasted a fearsome reputation. Surprisingly, Russian cyber operations don’t seem to have played a major role in the invasion, and Ukrainian information operations have routinely bested often-clumsy Russian efforts.

The Clements Center for National Security, in partnership with the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, Harvard Kennedy School’s Applied History Program, the LBJ Foundation, and the University of Texas at Austin’s History Department hosted a conference in February 2022 entitled “Civil War and Intervention: U.S. Foreign Policy in International Perspective.”

On Wednesday, March 2nd, the Clements Center for National Security, Asia Policy Program, LBJ School of Public Affairs, Strauss Center for International Security and Law, Intelligence Studies Project, and Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies hosted “War in Ukraine: An Expert Panel Discussion”.

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is remembered for many things, among them his iconic observation that, “There are known knowns–there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns–that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don’t know…

Clements Executive Director Will Inboden was interviewed on Texas Standard today about a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine. He underscores the nature of current U.S., Ukrainian, and Russian actions and highlights some possibilities including a full invasion or a puppet government.

In this week’s Horns of a Dilemma, Bobby Chesney, director of the Strauss Center at the University of Texas, Austin, speaks with Brandon Wales, executive director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). 

In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, we listen to a discussion between Clements Center Executive Director Will Inboden, and Professor Hal Brands of Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. They are talking about Brands’ new book, Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us About Great Power Rivalry Today. While the geopolitical rivalry…

Clements graduate fellow Daniel Samet recently co-authored this piece on Real Clear Defense on why the U.S. should pay more attention to China’s influence in the Middle East.

We kicked off the Spring 2022 semester with a trip to the LBJ Ranch with our Undergraduate Fellows. Lynne Hudson, a retired Army nurse who served in Vietnam from 1967-1968, spoke to the group about her experience in the field, and former Clements Center Predoctoral Fellow Theo Milonopoulos led the students through a policy simulation exercise. Our Fellows also went on a tour of the ranch, stopping at the Junction School, the cemetery, the show barn and the Texas White House where President Johnson made important policy decisions during his presidency.

The Global (Dis)Information Lab (“GDIL”) was established in 2020 at the University of Texas at Austin to encourage collaborative interdisciplinary academic research on the global circulation of misinformation, and disinformation via digital media.

In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, we continue with a panel discussion that follows author Wesley Morgan’s discussion of his book, The Hardest Place. If you haven’t listened to last week’s episode, which includes Morgan’s book talk, you may want to do so, since this week’s episode includes discussion of events that are covered…

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, the first of two parts, author Wesley Morgan discusses his book, The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan’s Pech Valley. Morgan has written an extraordinary biography of the American presence in Afghanistan, focusing on one particular place, and through the history of the American war in that…

 Former Clements postdoctoral fellow Alexandra T. Evans co-authored a new RAND perspective, “Modernizing the U.S. Nuclear Triad: The Rationale for a New Intercontinental Ballistic Missile”.

Take a look back at the Fall 2021 Semester!