Press | 2014

Clements Center Graduate Fellow Mark Battjes has contributed to an edited volume published by Oxford University Press (2014). His chapter is titled “The End of Operation New Dawn: The Tactics of the Tropic Lightning Division in Iraq.”

Executive Director William Inboden and Academic Board members Peter Feaver and Kori Schake offer foreign policy advice to President Obama in their latest Shadow Government blog post titled “The Wonkiest Yard.”

Associate Director Paul D. Miller was a guest on The Dan Caplis Show, a news/talk radio show in the Denver area. He discussed his latest article in The New Republic titled “America, Don’t Give Up on Afghanistan.”

The Clements Center would like to congratulate Statecraft Board member Ashton Carter on his nomination to be the next Secretary of Defense, replacing Secretary Chuck Hagel.  

The Clements Center recently released its Winter 2014 newsletter. The online publication highlights the great accomplishments from fall 2014 and looks ahead to the spring semester. 

Faculty Fellow and Strauss Center Director Robert Chesney was interviewed for PRI’s “The World” for a story on Edward Snowden titled “To see the changes Edward Snowden wrought, just look at your smartphone.”

In a Sunday Book Review for The New York Times, Clements Director of Graduate Studies and UT History Professor Mark Lawrence discusses Debi and Irwin Unger and Stanley Hirschon’s recent biography of General George C. Marshall.

James Barnett will be spending five months in the spring of 2015 in Amman, Jordan studying regional diplomacy and Arabic at the Jordan Institute of Diplomacy.

In Spring 2015, the Clements Center is pleased to sponsor the “Young Scholars Speaker Series.” The series will feature four young scholars who have recently published books on topics ranging from Syria to John Quincy Adams.

Executive Director William Inboden discusses the resurgence of the term “Finlandization” in light of the current crisis in Ukraine in his Shadow Government blog post. 

This week in diplomatic and military history for December 1 & 8 titled “Outmanned, Undersupplied, Outgunned: Yamashita’s Feint” is brought to you by Clements Undergraduate Fellow Keith Chew.

Associate Director Paul D. Miller says “This war is still winnable” in a piece published in the New Republic.

Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Steele Brand will teach a class of over 60 undergraduate students about “Military History to 1640” for UT’s Department of History in Spring 2015.

Undergraduate Fellow Mark Jbeily has been selected to receive a Marshall Scholarship in 2015. 

This week in diplomatic and military history for November 24th titled “The Grass Fight” is brought to you by Undergraduate Fellow William Cowan.

Former Clements Center graduate assistant Rachel Hoff co-authored an article for The Weekly Standard with Caitlin Poling on their experience campaigning during the midterm elections.

Faculty Fellow Patricia Maclachlan has published a piece in the September-December 2014 issue of the Journal of East Asian Studies on “The Electoral Power of Japanese Interest Groups.”

In an article for the Journal of Strategic Studies, National Security Fellow Celeste Ward Gventer reviews Douglas Porch’s Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War (Cambridge Press 2013) and Colonel Gian Gentile’s Wrong Turn: America’s Deadly Embrace of Counterinsurgency (The New Press 2013). 

This week in diplomatic and military history for November 17 titled “The Greeks Invade Albania, 1940” is brought to you by Clements Undergraduate Fellow James Barnett.

This week in diplomatic and military history for November 10 titled “Contemporary Insights from the Fourth Crusade” is brought to you by Clements Undergraduate Fellow Cyrus Huncharek. 

Professor William Inboden and The Heritage Foundation’s Kim Holmes published an op-ed in The Washington Times on the need for a new foreign policy strategy in 2016. The piece is based on their four-part series for Foreign Policy’s Shadow Government blog. 

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Executive Director William Inboden published an op-ed in the Austin American-Statesman.

The Clements Center for History, Strategy & Statecraft and the War Studies Department at King’s College London hosted the second in an annual series of conferences jointly sponsored by the two organizations titled “Grand Strategy and the Anglo-American World View: A Century of the Special Relationship.” This year’s conference took place at King’s College London November 13-15.

Rand Paul’s recent talk at the Center for the National Interest about “conservative realism” was the topic of Associate Director Paul D. Miller’s blog post for Foreign Policy’s Shadow Government.

This week in diplomatic and military history is brought to you by Undergraduate Fellow Kevin Powell. His entry for November 3rd is titled “The Battle of Rossbach and the Negotiation of Prussian Power in Europe.”

Senior Faculty Fellow Frank Gavin recently participated in H-Diplo/ISSF’s Roundtable review of Hal Brands’ What Good Is Grand Strategy: Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush (Cornell University Press, 2014).

Clements Undergraduate Fellow Kevin Powell was recently awarded the prestigious Undergraduate Research Fellowship (URF) by the Office of the Vice President for Research at The University of Texas at Austin.

Because internships in foreign and defense policy can be an essential part of professional development and career opportunities in national security policy, the Clements Center wants to help UT students in identifying and pursuing internship opportunities.

Clements Center Senior Faculty Fellow Robert Chesney is quoted by Fareed Zakaria in The Washington Post opinion piece “Why Edward Snowden should agree to stand trial in the U.S.”

“This Week in Military and Diplomatic History” is brought to you by Clements Center Undergraduate Fellow David Edwards. His entry for October 27th is “‘Black Saturday’ and the Victory of Diplomacy.”

Clements Center Faculty Fellow Dr. Eugene Gholz has published an article in Issues in Science and Technology about defense-led energy innovation.

It has been a decade since the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 ushered in a sweeping reorganization of the U.S. intelligence community, creating the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Counterterrorism Center.