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To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Executive Director William Inboden published an op-ed in the Austin American-Statesman.

Rand Paul’s recent talk at the Center for the National Interest about “conservative realism” was the topic of Associate Director Paul D. Miller’s blog post for Foreign Policy’s Shadow Government.

This week in diplomatic and military history is brought to you by Undergraduate Fellow Kevin Powell. His entry for November 3rd is titled “The Battle of Rossbach and the Negotiation of Prussian Power in Europe.”

Clements Center Senior Faculty Fellow Robert Chesney is quoted by Fareed Zakaria in The Washington Post opinion piece “Why Edward Snowden should agree to stand trial in the U.S.”

“This Week in Military and Diplomatic History” is brought to you by Clements Center Undergraduate Fellow David Edwards. His entry for October 27th is “‘Black Saturday’ and the Victory of Diplomacy.”

Executive Director William Inboden and Kim R. Holmes published their fourth installment in a four part series on the future of U.S. foreign policy on Foreign Policy’s Shadow Government blog. 

Executive Director William Inboden and Kim R. Holmes published their third installment in a four part series on the future of U.S. foreign policy on Foreign Policy’s Shadow Government blog. 

Foreign Policy magazine contributing editor Christian Caryl gave a lecture on his recent book “Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century” on October 1 on the UT campus. Journalist Adam Hamze covered the talk for The Daily Texan.

In his latest Shadow Government blog post, Executive Director William Inboden responds to President Obama’s 60 Minutes interview in which he “singled out Director of National Intelligence James Clapper for the intelligence failures that allegedly missed the Islamic State (IS) threat.”

Clements Faculty Fellow Joshua Eisenman recently published an article in Foreign Affairs on China’s policies towards foreign business. 

Executive Director William Inboden and Kim R. Holmes published their latest installment in a four part series on the future of U.S. foreign policy on Foreign Policy‘s Shadow Government blog. 

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. 

On the anniversary of September 11th, Executive Director William Inboden reflects on where he was the day our nation came under attack. 

In his latest Foreign Policy Shadow Government blog post, Executive Director William Inboden writes about President Obama’s remarks on September 10 regarding the Islamic State.

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. 

Clements Center Graduate Fellow Peter Harris, with the assistance of an article by Grad Fellow Brian McNeil, published an article in The National Interest about humanitarian intervention.

Associate Director Paul D. Miller recently published a blog post for Foreign Policy’s Shadow Government titled “‘Don’t Meddle’ Isn’t a Foreign Policy.”

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.” 

In The National Interest piece titled “Obama and the Ghost of Lyndon Johnson,” Peter Harris compares the foreign policy agendas of Obama and LBJ. 

In his latest Shadow Government post, Executive Director William Inboden writes about Iraq and presidential decision making. 

In November 2013, the Clements Center, King’s College London, and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law co-hosted the conference “Diplomacy, Alliances, and War: Anglo-American Perspectives on History and Strategy in the September 11th Era” on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. Transcripts from the event are now available online.

In his latest Shadow Government post for ForeignPolicy.com, Executive Director William Inboden writes about British Prime Minister David Cameron’s significant cabinet upheaval ten months before the next election.

Clements Center Senior Fellow Frank Gavin published an op-ed in The Dallas Morning News praising the innovative leadership of UT President Bill Powers in the creation of the Strauss and Clements Centers.

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 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.