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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.

With the untimely death of Fouad Ajami on Sunday, Executive Director William Inboden writes a tribute to the “relentlessly original thinker” and scholar in his most recent Shadow Government post for ForeignPolicy.com.

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.

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.

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

In his latest Shadow Government post for ForeignPolicy.com, Executive Director William Inboden argues that it is time to lift the visa ban on Modi and make the visa ban policy only one part of a comprehensive strategy against acts of religious intolerance.

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.

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.”

Clements Center National Security Fellow Celeste Ward Gventer appeared in a recent edition of the New York Times’ “Room for Debate,” weighing in on how the international community can minimize the risk of a terrorist resurgence in Afghanistan after the U.S. and NATO pull out all troops from the region.

In an opinion piece for The New York Times, Clements Center Director William Inboden argues recent events in Ukraine prove that Russia does not respect the responsibility and requirements of G-8 membership and should not enjoy its privileges and prestige.

In Professor Inboden’s latest Shadow Government blog post on fp.com, he discusses his recent trip to Chicago to attend a conference on security and privacy co-sponsored by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and Notre Dame’s International Security Program.

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 latest Shadow Government post on ForeignPolicy.com, Executive Director William Inboden recognizes the release of the latest nonpartisan report issued by Freedom House titled “Freedom in the World.”

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.”

In his most recent blog post for Tower Talk, President Bill Powers highlights some of the great accomplishments from the past year.

The Alcalde, the official publication of the Texas Exes, interviewed Professor William Inboden about his time in the White House and how he came up with the concept of the Clements Center. The article was written to commemorate the official launch of the Center at the gala that took place at UT on Thursday, November 21st.

University of Texas President Bill Powers discussed the Clements Center’s inaugural gala in his blog “Tower Talk” on Friday, November 22nd.

Executive Director Professor William Inboden writes in the Dallas Morning News about Bill Clements’ legacy.

Professor Inboden, Executive Director of the Clements Center and curator of the Shadow Govt. blog on ForeignPolicy.com, wrote about the U.S.-French relations in his recent blog post.

Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times, was recently in Austin to promote his new book Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House and to attend the Clements Center’s annual conference “Diplomacy, Alliances and War: Anglo-American Perspectives on History and Strategy in the September 11th Era.”

Clements Center Graduate Fellow and UT History PhD student Carl Forsberg recently wrote a piece for the new China Journal at Yale China Hands.

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.