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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.

Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Founding Director of the Asia Policy Program, was quoted in Bloomberg regarding China’s plans for a protest-free Olympics despite its human rights record.

Mark Pomar, a Senior National Security Fellow at the Clements Center, was interviewed on Texas Standard about the U.S. approach to the current tensions in Ukraine.

Distinguished Senior Fellow General Robert B. Neller (USMC, Retired) posted some New Year’s advice for Marines – and the rest of us! 

Isabel Ayala has been named to the 2023 class of Schwarzman scholars, one of the world’s most prestigious graduate fellowships, located at Schwarzman College on the campus of Tsinghua University in Beijing. 

 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”.

Even the most ancient history is relevant to those who study modern geopolitics, strategy, and statecraft. On Classics of Strategy and Diplomacy, Clements Associate Director Paul Edgar details what a statue of King Idrimi tells us about the similarities between his time and ours.

How will history remember 2021? POLITICO Magazine asked 18 historians to envision the entry for the year in a hypothetical future history book. William Inboden, Executive Director of the Clements Center for National Security, was one of the chosen contributors.

Undergraduate fellows Katherine Birch, Ashish Dave, Peter Denham, Archit Oswal, and William Tran published short essays on a variety of topics on The Cipher Brief.

Major Brandon J. Archuleta, formerly a fellow at the Clements Center for National Security, was included in the 2021 Power 50 Leadership List by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the Diversity in National Security Network (DINSN).

The Clements Center was honored to partner with the President’s Office, Plan II Honors program, and the School of Government to support this course in Fall 2020. The Wall Street Journal Opinion page published Karl Rove’s reflections on his Fall 2020 campaign course.

If you’re looking for a book to dive into over your semester break, check out the 2021 holiday reading list from War on the Rocks and Texas National Security Review.

  This semester, UT students have had a unique opportunity to learn about political campaigning from experts on both sides of the aisle. Read Avrel Seale’s story on UT News.

On December 1, 2021 the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced the appointment of the first 23 members of the Agency’s new Cybersecurity Advisory Committee, a group that will advise and provide recommendations to the Director on policies, programs, planning, and training to enhance the nation’s cyber defense. Strauss Center Director Bobby Chesney was…

Former Clements graduate fellow Ashlyn Hand’s book review published in Oxford Journal of Church and State.

“You can’t put a price on national security,” he said. “Just about every aspect of American national security strength depends on semiconductors.” 

Mark Lawrence’s new book, The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era, is a groundbreaking new history of how the Vietnam War thwarted U.S. liberal ambitions in the developing world and at home in the 1960s.

In an interview with Texas Standard, Clements Faculty Fellow and Founding Director of the Asia Policy Project, Sheena Chestnut Greitens, explains what is behind rising tensions between China and Taiwan and how that will affect the U.S.