Press | 2014

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.

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.