Press | 2013

In his most recent blog post for Tower Talk, President Bill Powers highlights some of the great accomplishments from the past year.

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger spoke about Bill Clements in a video prepared for the Clements Center’s inaugural gala on November 21, 2013.

Clements Center Graduate Fellow Simon Miles recently published work in the journal Diplomacy & Statecraft. His article discusses Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin’s visit to Great Britain in April 1956.

The Alcalde, the official publication of the Texas Exes, interviewed Professor William Inboden about his time in the White House and how he came up with the concept of the Clements Center. The article was written to commemorate the official launch of the Center at the gala that took place at UT on Thursday, November 21st.

University of Texas President Bill Powers discussed the Clements Center’s inaugural gala in his blog “Tower Talk” on Friday, November 22nd.

The Clements Center for History, Strategy and Statecraft hosted its inaugural gala on November 21st, 2013 at the University of Texas. Over 300 friends and guests attended the event to commemorate the launch of the historic center.

Executive Director Professor William Inboden writes in the Dallas Morning News about Bill Clements’ legacy.

The Journal of Strategic Studies published an article by Professor Inboden that constructs a taxonomy of the various ways that national security policy-makers attempt to use history. It identifies four types of history: experience, memory, tradition, and study.

Professor Inboden, Executive Director of the Clements Center and curator of the Shadow Govt. blog on ForeignPolicy.com, wrote about the U.S.-French relations in his recent blog post.

Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times, was recently in Austin to promote his new book Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House and to attend the Clements Center’s annual conference “Diplomacy, Alliances and War: Anglo-American Perspectives on History and Strategy in the September 11th Era.”

The Clements Center, in partnership with King’s College London, convened its first conference in early-November at the University of Texas at Austin.  Participants from all over the U.S. and U.K. attended the event titled “Diplomacy, Alliances and War: Anglo-American Perspectives on History and Strategy in the September 11th Era.”  

Clements Center Post-Doctoral Fellow Steele Brand will offer an undergraduate course in Spring 2014 through UT’s Department of History.

Clements Center Graduate Fellow and UT History PhD student Carl Forsberg recently wrote a piece for the new China Journal at Yale China Hands.

Clements Center graduate fellow Peter Harris was recently featured in the comments section of the Canadian International Council’s website OpenCanada.org.

In September, Clements Center Director Will Inboden and incoming Strauss Center Director Bobby Chesney led a team of scholars in a workshop involving a number of senior officials from the National Security Agency at the agency’s headquarters in Ft. Meade, Maryland.

This year, the University of Texas at Austin announced the establishment of the William P. Clements Jr. Center for History, Strategy and Statecraft. The Center honors the legacy of former Texas Governor Bill Clements, who served as Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1973-1977.

The Clements Center is hosting an upcoming lecture series “Strategic Insights from the Ancient World,” to be held during the 2013-14 academic year.

Clements Center Senior Fellow Jeremi Suri’s article regarding Vladimir Putin’s op-ed in the New York Times is featured in Foreign Affairs magazine.

The Clements Center co-sponsored a symposium on Friday, September 6th titled “Troubled Waters: East Asia’s Contemporary Territorial Disputes” in the Avaya Auditorium at UT.

The Clements Center’s Executive Director William Inboden appeared on Good Day Austin to discuss the President’s response to the conflict in Syria.

Read William Inboden’s article published in the May 2013 edition of Diplomatic History. Publications-Inboden.pdf

The Graduate Fellows Program, spearheaded by the Clements Center’s Director of Graduate Studies Mark Lawrence, is designed to support distinguished doctoral students enrolled in the UT history department, government department, and LBJ School.

In the September 2013 issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly, Associate Director Paul D. Miller published a piece in “The Contemporary Presidency” series. 

The inaugural class supported by the Clements Center’s Summer Student Development Fund is already making its voice heard in the global policy discussion.

In July 2013, Associate Director Paul D. Miller published his first book with Cornell University Press. 

The Clements Center for History, Strategy, and Statecraft is pleased to announce that it has funded eight UT graduate students to take part in summer internships across the world.

What role do historical knowledge and historical analogies play in decision-making processes in foreign policy?  What role should they play? 

Final paper by LBJ School student Andrew Berglund under the direction of Dr. Inboden. Berglund_Andrew_Research_Paper_5.13.13.pdf

Clements Center Executive Director William Inboden and colleagues Joshua Busby, Jonathan Monten, and Jordan Tama discuss