Press | 2014

Austin, Texas – The William P. Clements, Jr. Center for History, Strategy & Statecraft at The University of Texas at Austin has named Paul D. Miller as associate director.

“This summer I had the opportunity to intern for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. Working within the Public Diplomacy Office I was involved mainly with the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI), a presidential initiative that aims to promote cooperation and solidarity among youth living in the ten ASEAN countries.

LBJ School student Sarah Kaiser-Cross was awarded funding through the Clements Center’s Summer Student Development Program for her internship with the U.S. Embassy in Manama, Bahrain. Here is her story:

Clements Center Executive Director William Inboden and Undergraduate Fellow Dan Hamilton were featured on local ABC station KVUE on Friday, August 8th to discuss the current situation in Iraq. 

In November 2013, the Clements Center, King’s College London, and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law co-hosted the conference “Diplomacy, Alliances, and War: Anglo-American Perspectives on History and Strategy in the September 11th Era” on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. Transcripts from the event are now available online.

Jack Harbin, a dear friend and supporter of the Clements Center, passed away on Sunday, July 27, 2014.

The Clements Center hosted its first annual Summer Seminar in History and Statecraft in Beaver Creek, Colorado July 27-August 1.

In his latest Shadow Government post for ForeignPolicy.com, Executive Director William Inboden writes about British Prime Minister David Cameron’s significant cabinet upheaval ten months before the next election.

Clements Center Senior Fellow Frank Gavin published an op-ed in The Dallas Morning News praising the innovative leadership of UT President Bill Powers in the creation of the Strauss and Clements Centers.

Executive Director William Inboden has published a review of Marc Trachtenberg’s book The Cold War and After: History, Theory, and the Logic of International Politics. The review appears in the upcoming Journal of Strategic Studies, and can be accessed online here.

Clements Center Senior Fellow Frank Gavin has convened a roundtable discussion comparing how historians and political scientists approach the study of nuclear weapons and strategy.

With the untimely death of Fouad Ajami on Sunday, Executive Director William Inboden writes a tribute to the “relentlessly original thinker” and scholar in his most recent Shadow Government post for ForeignPolicy.com.

In his latest Shadow Government post for ForeignPolicy.com, Executive Director William Inboden looks at the legacy of Tiananmen Square 25 years after the tragedy.

In an op-ed in The New York Times, Clements Center National Security Fellow Celeste Ward Gventer discusses the release of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl and the difficult choice the U.S. government has to make between negotiating with terrorists and ensuring the safe return of our soldiers.

Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Higher Education Director Thomas K. Lindsay highlighted the Clements Center in a Real Clear Policy blog post.

In his latest Shadow Government post for ForeignPolicy.com, Executive Director William Inboden argues that it is time to lift the visa ban on Modi and make the visa ban policy only one part of a comprehensive strategy against acts of religious intolerance.

The Clements Center is pleased to announce that it has awarded funding to 10 University of Texas students to take part in unpaid summer internships. The 2014 recipients are…

The William P. Clements, Jr. Center for History Strategy & Statecraft at The University of Texas at Austin announces the members of its Statecraft Board of Reference.

Two Postdoctoral Fellows have been selected to join the Clements Center team for the 2014-2015 academic year. 

Clements Center Senior Fellow Jeremi Suri recently posted an article on his website titled “Containing Russian Fascism.”

President Obama made strong remarks regarding his foreign policy agenda while in Manila this week and the Clements Center’s Executive Director writes about it in his latest Shadow Government blog post. 

In his latest Shadow Government post, Executive Director William Inboden discusses President Obama’s Asia trip in the broader context of America’s global alliances and the Pacific pivot.

In April, the Clements Center partnered with the Marine Corps Command and Staff College in Quantico, Virginia for a major policy exercise on security challenges in SouthEast Asia.  Over 350 military officers and civilian policymakers participated in the two week simulation, titled “Exercise Nine Innings.” 

UT’s Longhorn Network featured the Clements Center on their “Campus Minute” broadcast on April 17th. The Center made headlines the previous day when it welcomed U.S. Senator Marco Rubio to the Blanton Museum Auditorium.

If you were unable to attend the event with U.S. Senator Marco Rubio on April 15th, you can watch the full talk and Q&A here. 

The University of Texas and the Clements Center for History, Strategy & Statecraft welcomed U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) to UT on April 15th. The Senator talked about America’s role in the world and sat down with Clements Center Executive Director William Inboden for Q&A.

Press coverage from the event can be found by clicking on the article.

From April 3-4, the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law and the William P. Clements Jr. Center for History, Strategy & Statecraft hosted a public conference exploring the legal, policy, and technological environments in which the NSA operations.

In his article titled “Afghanistan’s Coming Coup?”, Associate Director Paul D. Miller states “The military isn’t too weak, it’s too strong.”

The Clements Center is seeking applications for its Undergraduate Fellows Programs. The due date has been extended to Tuesday, April 22nd!

It is with heavy hearts that we learned the news that Ambassador Robert S. Strauss has passed away. William Inboden, Clements Center Executive Director and Distinguished Scholar at the Strauss Center, said: “With the death of Ambassador Strauss, we have lost a great Longhorn, a great Texan, and a great American.”  

The German Marshall Fund of the United States launched the Emerging Powers Policy Forum in 2013 in which the Clements Center’s Executive Director William Inboden took part and authored a chapter titled “Global Security Challenges Confronting Established and Emerging Powers.”

Peter Harris, Clements Center Graduate Fellow, likened the current situation in Ukraine, and Russia’s intentions in the region, to the 1938 crisis when western elites tried to appease Nazi Germany in his piece in the National Interest titled “Munich’s Lessons for the Ukraine Crisis.”

The Clements Center received 50 applications for its first annual Summer Seminar in History and Statecraft in Beaver Creek, CO and from that group selected the following 17 participants:

Clements Center National Security Fellow Celeste Ward Gventer appeared in a recent edition of the New York Times’ “Room for Debate,” weighing in on how the international community can minimize the risk of a terrorist resurgence in Afghanistan after the U.S. and NATO pull out all troops from the region.

In an opinion piece for The New York Times, Clements Center Director William Inboden argues recent events in Ukraine prove that Russia does not respect the responsibility and requirements of G-8 membership and should not enjoy its privileges and prestige.