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The Clements Center has partnered over the past several years with the SMU Center for Presidential History, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and Duke University American Grand Strategy Program to conduct an in-depth study of President George W. Bush’s controversial decision in 2006-2007 to order a surge of forces and new counterinsurgency strategy in Iraq. …

The Clements Center’s Student Professional Development Fund provides UT undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to intern at some of the top governmental and non-governmental organizations across the world by providing monetary support for unpaid positions.

The recipient of the 2019 “Bobby R. Inman Award” for student scholarship on intelligence is Jeffrey Rogg, a Ph.D. candidate in history at the Ohio State University concentrating on conflict, peace and diplomacy.  His paper, Deciphering the “American Black Chamber,” chronicles the rise and fall of the Cipher Bureau and introduces a theory of “civil-intelligence”relations in the U.S. 

The Clements Center’s Student Professional Development Fund provides UT undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to intern at some of the top governmental and non-governmental organizations across the world by providing monetary support for unpaid positions.

This July, the Clements Center hosted its sixth annual Summer Seminar in History and Statecraft in Beaver Creek, Colorado.

In May 2019 the Clements Center took 19 UT undergraduate students to London for a unique four-week Maymester study abroad program to study the US-UK special relationship at King’s College London. The program includes visits to important landmarks in British cultural heritage and Anglo-American strategic history, as well as private events with senior policymakers and historians.  

The Clements Center’s Student Professional Development Fund provides UT undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to intern at some of the top governmental and non-governmental organizations across the world by providing monetary support for unpaid positions.

The Clements Center’s Student Professional Development Fund provides UT undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to intern at some of the top governmental and non-governmental organizations across the world by providing monetary support for unpaid positions.

The Clements Center’s Student Professional Development Fund provides UT undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to intern at some of the top governmental and non-governmental organizations across the world by providing monetary support for unpaid positions.

We’d like to extend our warm congratulations to Dr. Mark Atwood Lawrence, Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of History, for receiving the Silver Spurs Centennial Teaching Award! We’re grateful for his tireless dedication and excellence as an educator – no one is more deserving of such recognition and we’re fortunate to have him…

Here’s what happened at the Clements Center this semester! If you would like to subscribe to our Events or Newsletter email list, please sign up here. 

The Intelligence Studies Project of The University of Texas at Austin announces the fifth annual competition recognizing outstanding student research and writing on topics related to intelligence and national security.  The winner of the “Inman Award” will receive a cash prize of $5000, with two semifinalists each receiving a cash prize of $2500.  This competition is open to unpublished work by undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in degree programs at accredited U.S. higher education institutions during the 2018-19 academic year.  The deadline for submitting papers is June 30, 2019. 

In this second installment of the 2019 Intelligence Studies Project Symposium, Robert Chesney, director of the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, moderates a panel on emerging threats, technology challenges, and institutional change. Panelists include Michelle Van Cleave, former national counterintelligence executive, Matthew Travis, deputy director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, Samantha Ravich,…

The University of Texas at Austin’s Intelligence Studies Project (ISP) hosted its fifth annual Intelligence Studies Project Symposium. This year’s Symposium “Intelligence in Transition” featured a keynote address by the Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Susan Gordon. This event is co-sponsored by the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law, the Clements Center for National Security, and the LBJ School of Public Affairs.

A note from Executive Director Will Inboden:

AUSTIN, Texas – Nicholas “Nick” Rasmussen, the former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), and Dr. Michele Malvesti, a scholar and former White House counterterrorism advisor, will teach and advise students at the University of Texas-Austin.  Rasmussen and Malvesti will hold joint appointments as Senior National Security Fellows at UT’s Strauss Center for International Security and Law, Clements Center for National Security, and Intelligence Studies Project.

Congratulations to the Clements Center for National Security’s Predoctoral Fellow Mary Elizabeth Walters who will be joining the History Department at Kansas State University as an Assistant Professor in August, 2019. Her research examines peace operations, military culture, and civil-military relations broadly conceived. Walters is completing her dissertation on the 1999 Kosovo Refugee Crisis at the University…

Today we remember the 40th anniversary of Bill Clements’ historic inauguration as the 42nd Governor of Texas. On January 16, 1979, Bill Clements took the oath of office and assumed governorship over the State of Texas. During the course of his two nonconsecutive terms as governor, the former Deputy Secretary of Defense and oil company executive successfully…

Here’s what happened at the Clements Center this semester! If you would like to subscribe to our Events or Newsletter email list, please sign up here. 

On Friday, November 30, the Clements Center, Strauss Center, and Intelligence Studies Project convened senior policymakers to discuss “The Return of Great Power Competition” at the fifth annual Texas National Security Forum.

The Clements Center for National Security offers its deepest condolences to the family and friends of Cowden Ward, Jr., reportedly the pilot of the P-51D Mustang that went down in Fredericksburg, Texas, on Saturday, and to the loved ones of his passenger, 93-year-old Vincent Losada.

UT-Austin’s Intelligence Studies Project and the Texas National Security Network announce the 2019 Texas Intelligence Academy (TIA), an intensive academic program focused on intelligence and national security from May 20 – 30, 2019 in Washington, D.C. 

The Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin seeks applications from current PhD candidates for its Predoctoral Fellowship Program and recent PhD recipients for its Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.

Intelligence Studies Project welcomes Dr. Alan Kessler, the Central Intelligence Agency’s first resident intelligence officer (RIO).

Applications are now open for our 2019 Summer Seminar program. Apply by Monday, February 11th.

2019 London Maymester study abroad program applications now open until Monday, November 5th.

Executive Director Will Inboden and Faculty Fellow Josh Eisenman were referenced in The Richmond Times-Dispatch and The Washington Post (respectively) for their perspectives on the threat from China’s hegemonic aspirations.

On Sept. 26th, Clements Center Executive Director Will Inboden testified before the HASC on the subject of “The Impact of National Defense on the Economy, Diplomacy, and International Order”. 

Former Undergraduate Fellow and London Maymester participant Meagan Bennett was chosen to receive the highly-selective Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) scholarship for Persian in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

Every year, the Clements Center takes 20 UT undergraduate students to London for a unique four-week Maymester study abroad program to study the US-UK special relationship at King’s College London. The program includes visits to important landmarks in British cultural heritage and Anglo-American strategic history, as well as private events with senior policymakers and historians.  

Rachel Hoff, MGPS ’14, will receive the Rising Leader Award at this year’s LBJ School Alumni Weekend reunion for her notable contributions to legislative, defense, and security policy in a remarkably short time.

Each July, the Clements Center convenes a week long seminar for doctoral students focused on the connections between statecraft and history.