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Throughout history, how have Americans thought about their own self-defense? Have they always thought about it like they do today — as expansive, global, and ideological? Andrew Preston discusses these questions by looking at the history of the idea of national security and how it is different today than in the past, the topic of his current…

Clements Center and ISP Fellow Paul Pope sits down with and Seth Jones of the Center for Strategic & International Studies to talk about his latest book, A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland. They discuss Reagan’s approach to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and how the CIA aided Poland’s opposition movement…

Mary Walters sits down with Steve Baumann, host of The Hour of History Podcast, to reflect on the Kosovo War after twenty years and explore the roots of the conflict and related refugee crisis, as well as the involvement of NATO, the UN, and Albanian families in providing humanitarian assistance.

Col. Liam Collins, career Special Forces officer and director of the Modern War Institute at West Point, dissects how Russia used hybrid warfare in Georgia, what it learned from that experience, and how it applied those lessons in Ukraine, allowing it to take Crimea without firing a single shot. 

In the final installment of the 2019 Intelligence Studies Project Symposium, Susan Gordon, principal deputy director of national intelligence, delivers the keynote address. Following the keynote, she sat down with Stephen Slick, director of the Intelligence Studies Project, to discuss intelligence in transition. 

This episode of Horns of a Dilemma is part of a special series of live episodes bringing you into the room at the 2019 ISP Symposium. In this first installment, Ellen Nakashima, national security reporter at the Washington Post, sits down with John Demers, assistant attorney general for national security, to discuss law enforcement responses to new…

Stephen Tankel, associate professor in the School of International Service at American University and associate editor of the Texas National Security Review, discusses his recently published book, With Us and Against Us: How America’s Partners Help and Hinder the War on Terror.

Aaron O’Connell, Associate Professor of U.S. Military History at UT-Austin, sits down with Charles Edel, Senior Fellow at the United States Studies Centre, to discuss his new book co-written with Hal Brands, The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order for the Horns of a Dilemma Podcast.

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Wen-Qing Ngoei, assistant professor of history at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, argues that British neo-colonial strategies and anti-communist nationalism in Southeast Asia intersected with pre-existing local antipathy towards China to prompt a shift in the region from European-dominated colonialism to U.S. hegemony. 

William Hitchcock, the William W. Corcoran professor of history at the University of Virginia, discusses President Dwight Eisenhower and America’s role in the world in the 1950s and its enduring relevance today. 

Will Inboden moderates a discussion on authoritarian interference in democracies with Jamie Fly and Laura Rosenberger, Senior Fellows of the German Marshall Fund. 

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Mark Pomar, Senior National Security Fellow at the Clements Center and the former CEO and president of the U.S.-Russia Foundation, discusses what we need to know about Russia under Vladimir Putin, and how Putin’s leadership is affecting U.S.-Russia ties. 

How have recent Nuclear Posture Reviews — which outline the role nuclear weapons play in U.S. national security strategy — addressed the question of strategic stability? Here to talk about it for Horns of a Dilemma is Sharon Weiner, associate professor at American University and currently a visiting research scholar at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School. 

In the final episode from the Texas National Security Forum, Clements Center Faculty Fellow and Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar Josh Eisenman moderated a discussion on China with Christopher Johnson, former Central Intelligence Agency analyst, Kelly Magsamen, former principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific affairs, and Jim Steinberg, former deputy secretary of state. 

The next installment of Horns a Dilemma is National Security Forum’s keynote address by Sen. Ben Sasse. The senator was introduced by Admiral Bobby Inman, Centennial Chair in National Policy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. 

From the Clements and Strauss Center’s fifth annual Texas National Security Forum, Stephen Slick, Director of the Intelligence Studies Project, moderated a discussion on the SSCI Investigation into Russian Active Measures with Senator Richard Burr, Senator Mark Warner and Senator John Cornyn. Gregory Fenves, President of the University of Texas at Austin, introduced the panel. 

From the Clements and Strauss Center’s fifth annual Texas National Security Forum, Mary Neuburger of the University of Texas moderated a discussion on Russia with General Phillip Breedlove, Former Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Evelyn Farkas, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia, and Daniel Fried, Former Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs. 

From the Clements and Strauss Center’s fifth annual Texas National Security Forum. Lorinc Redei of the LBJ School of Public Affairs, moderated a discussion on World Order with Antony Blinken, former Deputy Secretary of State, Eric Edelman, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and Kristen Silverberg, former Ambassador to the European Union.

In the latest episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Philip Gorski, Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies at Yale University, discusses the role of civil religion in American life. 

Arne Westad, the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University, discusses the Cold War roots of today’s geopolitical trends – specifically, the competition between the United States, Russia, and China for Horns of a Dilemma.

Sam Kleiner, author of the new book The Flying Tigers, tells the story behind the American pilots who were secretly recruited to defend the nation’s desperate Chinese allies before Pearl Harbor for Horns of a Dilemma. 

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Congressman Joaquin Castro, who serves Texas’ 20th District, joins the Clements and Strauss Centers at the University of Texas at Austin to discuss the role of the United States in the world and the role of Congress in foreign policy.

State Fragility Initiative Director Ashley Moran, Clements Center Faculty Fellow and Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar Joshua Busby, and Armed Conflict Location and Event Data project Director Clionadh Raleigh collaborate on recent War on the Rocks piece. Listen to the discussion here.

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Sarah Snyder, Associate Professor at the School of International Service at American University, talks about her latest book, From Selma to Moscow: How Human Rights Activists Transformed U.S. Foreign Policy.

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Joshua Shifrinson, Assistant Professor of International Relations with the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, gives a talk on his recently released book, Rising Titans, Falling Giants: How Great Powers Exploit Power Shifts. Shifrinson focuses on the policies that rising states adopt in response to declining…

Will Inboden, Director of the Clements Center and the Editor-in-Chief of TNSR, moderates a discussion at the Texas Tribune Festival in the latest podcast from War on the Rocks. Panelists include former CIA Director John Brennan, former Commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command William McRaven, former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Nicholas Rasmussen,…

Listen to the second episode in a two-part podcast from the Texas National Security Review, a discussion about the national security dimensions of food insecurity with former UT chancellor and former commander of Special Operations Command retired Adm. William McRaven and Congressman Michael McCaul, Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security.

Listen to the latest podcast from the Texas National Security Review, a discussion about the national security dimensions of food insecurity with former UT chancellor and former commander of Special Operations Command retired Adm. William McRaven and Congressman Michael McCaul, Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security.

“Vietnam’s Indelible Legacy: How the War Changed International Policymaking:” War on the Rocks Managing Editor Usha Sahay sat down with Clements Center Executive Director Will Inboden, Associate Director Celeste Ward Gventer, and Faculty Affiliates Mark Atwood Lawrence and Aaron O’Connell to discuss the enduring influence of the Vietnam War on modern-day scholars and policymakers.  

In War on the Rocks’ podcast series “Horns of a Dilemma,” Clements Center’s Will Inboden and Celeste Ward Gventer, Strauss Center Director Bobby Chesney, and ISP Director Steve Slick discuss Sen. Ben Sasse’s Cyber Solarium.   

In an interview with the Texas Standard, Clements Center Executive Director Will Inboden says those who are familiar with North Korea’s history are not surprised by these latest revelations.