Press | 2014

The application due date for the Clements Center’s Maymester in London program has been extended to Monday, November 3rd! 

Associate Director Paul D. Miller published his final RAND publication which he co-authored with Linda Robinson, John Gordon IV, Jeffrey Decker, Michael Schwille, and Raphael S. Cohen. 

Clements Center Director William Inboden and Strauss Center Director Robert Chesney discussed the upcoming conference “Intelligence Reform and Counterterrorism after a Decade: Are We Smarter and Safer?” on Capital Tonight. 

Check back on this page beginning Thursday, October 16th at 4:00pm CST for a live stream of the “Intelligence Reform and Counterterrorism after a Decade: Are We Smarter and Safer?” public conference hosted on UT campus by the Clements Center for History, Strategy & Statecraft and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law.

Executive Director William Inboden and Kim R. Holmes published their third installment in a four part series on the future of U.S. foreign policy on Foreign Policy’s Shadow Government blog. 

Clements Graduate Fellow Simon Miles has published a review of Eliga H. Gould’s book “Among the powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the making of a new world empire” in International Journal, Canada’s journal of global policy analysis.

Foreign Policy magazine contributing editor Christian Caryl gave a lecture on his recent book “Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century” on October 1 on the UT campus. Journalist Adam Hamze covered the talk for The Daily Texan.

Clements Graduate Fellow Simon Miles has published a review of Stephanie Hofmann’s book “European security in NATO’s shadow: Party ideologies and institution building” in International Journal, Canada’s journal of global policy analysis.

In his latest Shadow Government blog post, Executive Director William Inboden responds to President Obama’s 60 Minutes interview in which he “singled out Director of National Intelligence James Clapper for the intelligence failures that allegedly missed the Islamic State (IS) threat.”

Clements Faculty Fellow Joshua Eisenman recently published an article in Foreign Affairs on China’s policies towards foreign business. 

I interned at U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C. and worked specifically on the Strategic Management Directorate’s futures scenario planning project called Evergreen.

In May of 2015, the Clements Center for History, Strategy & Statecraft will offer a unique Maymester opportunity titled “The British Strategic Tradition and Its Influence on the United States” in London.

Executive Director William Inboden and Kim R. Holmes published their latest installment in a four part series on the future of U.S. foreign policy on Foreign Policy‘s Shadow Government blog. 

Undergraduate Fellow Dan Hamilton was interviewed for a KEYE TV news piece on ISIS and US airstrikes.

Associate Director Paul D. Miller recently gave a talk at Syracuse University on U.S. stability operations. Click here to watch a video of the talk.

Executive Director William Inboden was recently interviewed on Capital Tonight about Obama’s ISIS strategy.

Associate Director Paul D. Miller was quoted in a Houston Chronicle article on U.S. Senator Ted Cruz’s proposal to revoke passports from American citizens who join ISIS. 

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.

On the anniversary of September 11th, Executive Director William Inboden reflects on where he was the day our nation came under attack. 

In his latest Foreign Policy Shadow Government blog post, Executive Director William Inboden writes about President Obama’s remarks on September 10 regarding the Islamic State.

As the nation commemorates the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks this week amid increasing threats from terrorist groups abroad, the Clements Center for History, Strategy and Statecraft and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law at The University of Texas at Austin will host a first-of-its-kind conference featuring America’s most senior intelligence and counterterrorism leaders.

National Security Fellow Celeste Ward Gventer wrote an op-ed for The New York Times’  “Room for Debate” on NATO’s involvement in the Ukraine. 

Clements Center Graduate Fellow Peter Harris, with the assistance of an article by Grad Fellow Brian McNeil, published an article in The National Interest about humanitarian intervention.

Associate Director Paul D. Miller recently published a blog post for Foreign Policy’s Shadow Government titled “‘Don’t Meddle’ Isn’t a Foreign Policy.”

Several Clements Center scholars worked with the Strategic Studies Institute of the Army War College to produce the new book “Strategic Retrenchment and Renewal in the American Experience.” 

On Monday, August 11, the Clements Center opened the doors to Harbin Hall, the Center’s revitalized office space in the Flawn Academic Center named in honor of dear friend and supporter Jack Harbin.

I spent the summer at the House Armed Services committee responsible for the authorization and oversight of the Department of Defense (DoD) and US military activities.

Associate Director Paul D. Miller published a piece in The Federalist in response to a New York Times op-ed about the dangers of calling ISIS “evil.”

This summer, Clements Center Undergraduate Fellows Mark Jbeily ‘15 and Aro Han ’15 attended an Advanced Institute with the Hertog Political Studies Program entitled “Lessons of the Iraq War.”

Former LBJ School student and recipient of Clements Center research funding, Kaitlin Sharkey recently completed a report titled “Fighting Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula on All Fronts: A U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy in Yemen.”

When I first arrived at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), I was told that the office expected its interns to take initiative regarding research interests and availability. With such a foundation set, I wasted no time in offering to help where needed.

In his latest post on Foreign Policy’s Shadow Government blog, Executive Director William Inboden writes about airstrikes against the Islamic State and “history’s continual capacity to surprise.”

Professor Inboden was quoted in New York Times White House correspondent Peter Baker’s news analysis titled “As World Boils, Fingers Point Obama’s Way.” 

In The National Interest piece titled “Obama and the Ghost of Lyndon Johnson,” Peter Harris compares the foreign policy agendas of Obama and LBJ. 

In his latest Shadow Government post, Executive Director William Inboden writes about Iraq and presidential decision making.