Press | 2014

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.

On Monday, March 3, the Clements Center for History, Strategy & Statecraft and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law welcomed author Tom Ricks to give a talk on his book entitled, The Generals: American Military Command from WWII to Today.

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.

Mark Lawrence, Clements Center Director of Graduate Studies, published The Vietnam War: An International History in Documents (Oxford University Press) on February 28, 2014.

In Professor Inboden’s latest Shadow Government blog post on fp.com, he discusses his recent trip to Chicago to attend a conference on security and privacy co-sponsored by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and Notre Dame’s International Security Program.

Professor Eugene Gholz argues for more targeted investments in the military to rebuild the relationship between the Army and industry in his commentary in the “critical thinking” section of the Army AL&T magazine.

Eugene Gholz, Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, discusses the evolution and production of weapons platforms since the end of the Cold War in his piece co-written with Harvey M. Sapolsky in The National Interest titled “End of the Line.”

Clements Center Senior Fellow Frank Gavin and Director of Graduate Studies Mark A. Lawrence are co-editors of a newly published volume, Beyond the Cold War: Lyndon Johnson and the New Global Challenges of the 1960s (Oxford University Press, January 2014).

In his latest Shadow Government post on ForeignPolicy.com, Executive Director William Inboden recognizes the release of the latest nonpartisan report issued by Freedom House titled “Freedom in the World.”

In his piece “The American People Aren’t Ready for China” published on January 23rd, Peter Harris compares the current debates in the U.S. surrounding the rise of China with the historical approaches taken by states to rising powers.

Robert Chesney, Clements Center Senior Fellow and Director of the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, published an opinion piece on January 22nd in the Austin American-Statesman regarding Edward Snowden and privacy concerns.

Celeste Ward Gventer, National Security Fellow at the Clements Center, published an edited volume with Palgrave Macmillan on January 22nd, 2014.

Clements Center Graduate Fellow and student at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, Brandon Archuleta, was recently featured in The New York Times piece “After Years at War, the Army Adapts to Garrison Life.”

Clements Center Graduate Fellow and Government Department Ph.D. candidate Peter Harris recently published two pieces addressing international security, environmental protection and human rights in the British Indian Ocean Territory.