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“In the eyes of many foreign-policy professionals, the Middle East is receding in geopolitical importance while East Asia grows more important by the day.” Clements Center Graduate Fellow Daniel J. Samet co-authored an article in National Review considering how increased trade between China and Israel could affect the future of the U.S.-Israel relationship.

“In the eyes of many foreign-policy professionals, the Middle East is receding in geopolitical importance while East Asia grows more important by the day.” Clements Center Graduate Fellow Daniel J. Samet co-authored an article in National Review considering how increased trade between China and Israel could affect the future of the U.S.-Israel relationship.

William Inboden’s piece in the Washington Post details how Reagan’s commitment to international human rights and democracy grew over his presidency and argues that we should look to the leadership of those who amplified the “Third Wave” to support democracy today.

William Inboden’s piece in the Washington Post details how Reagan’s commitment to international human rights and democracy grew over his presidency and argues that we should look to the leadership of those who amplified the “Third Wave” to support democracy today.

A report by the Global Disinformation Lab at UT Austin and NGA Tearline was recently featured on intel.gov. The report analyzes resource reallocation by Russia in Ukraine, countering a senior Russian official’s denial of the existence of filtration sites at a United Nations Security Council Meeting. Great work! 

A report by the Global Disinformation Lab at UT Austin and NGA Tearline was recently featured on intel.gov. The report analyzes resource reallocation by Russia in Ukraine, countering a senior Russian official’s denial of the existence of filtration sites at a United Nations Security Council Meeting. Great work! 

Clements Center Executive Director Will Inboden appeared on Morning Joe today to discuss his recent release, “The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, The Cold War, and the World on the Brink.”

Clements Center Executive Director Will Inboden appeared on Morning Joe today to discuss his recent release, “The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, The Cold War, and the World on the Brink.”

Matthew Continetti reviewed Will Inboden’s new book, “The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink,” for The Wall Street Journal.

Matthew Continetti reviewed Will Inboden’s new book, “The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink,” for The Wall Street Journal.

“Some of the most consequential foreign policy debates take place within each party rather than between the parties.” Check out this new piece in Foreign Affairs about the future of foreign policy in the Republican Party by Clements Center Director Will Inboden.

In a new piece on Foreign Policy Research Institute, Clements Center Graduate Fellow Ryan Ashley analyzes the new Japan-Australia Security Agreement and a growing trend for American allies to seek closer security ties with one another through bilateral and “minilateral” arrangements.

Clements Predoctoral Fellow Travis Frederick co-authored a chapter titled “Reception of Great Patriotic War Narratives: A Psychological Approach to Studying Collective Memory in Russia” in the edited volume Researching Memory and Identity in Russia and Eastern Europe: Interdisciplinary Methodologies.

Former Clements Postdoctoral Fellow M. L. deRaismes Combes published an article that she wrote while she was here at The University of Texas at Austin about the failures of counterinsurgency (“COIN”). She argues that COIN has led to protracted engagements with unclear and contradictory goals and that that this policy failure can be explained by…

In the National Review, Clements Center Executive Director William Inboden writes that the combination of pressure and diplomacy offers the best way to counter Putin, liberate Ukraine, and avoid nuclear war.

Clements Center Alum Jada Fraser was published in Pacific Forum’s recent collection of articles that memorializes the former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe.

Former Postdoctoral Fellow Alexandra Sukalo co-authored this piece with Kristo Nurmis in the Washington Post. They detail how the recently staged referendums are an attempt to discipline Ukrainians into accepting Putin’s rule, not to provide democratic legitimacy.

Clements Center Executive Director Will Inboden and Faculty Fellow Jeremi Suri recently published “A generation of the world’s best leaders has died. Now we must look forward.” for CNN, in which they explore what lessons history can provide and what traits should be considered when electing leadership today.

H-Diplo held a  roundtable on “The Reagan Moment: America and the World in the 1980s.” The book, edited by Jonathan Hunt and Simon Miles, originated from a Clements Center conference held in January 2017.

In Asia Policy Program Director Sheena Chesnut Greitens’ new article in Foreign Affairs, she argues that with much of the West focused on Russia and Ukraine, Xi Jinping’s April 2022 speech on his Quanqiu Anquan Changyi (Global Security Initiative), didn’t receive the attention it should have from Western governments.

Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Founding Director of the Asia Policy Program, and Rana Siu Inboden, a Senior Fellow at the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law, were recently quoted in a POLITICO article about how China understands and uses its role in the international system.

Artificial intelligence is making its way into more defense technology. Clements National Security Fellow Mark Jbeily and Christian Heller write in U.S. Naval Institute‘s Proceedings magazine that the human-machine aviation relationship must be developed for the next generation of warfare in order for it to be successful. 

In a recent publication in Foreign Affairs magazine, Daniel Twining and Senator Dan Sullivan argue that for the first time in more than half a century, the United States has both the need and the ability to build a bipartisan foreign policy consensus around the imperative of countering authoritarian aggression.