Press | 2015

Joshua Eisenman, Clements Faculty Fellow and LBJ School Assistant Professor, has published an oped in the Wall Street Journal on China’s current and historical expansion to disputed territories.

Clements Faculty Affiliate Jeff Engel has published an article in The American Interest based on his presentation at the November 2014 conference at King’s College London titled “Grand Strategy and the Anglo-American World View: A Century of the Special Relationship.”

Clements Undergraduate and Graduate Fellows are selected based on their outstanding academic achievements and professional qualities. Several Fellows will be starting the next chapter in their career this fall and the Center would like to recognize their accomplishments. 

The Clements Center’s Maymester program kicked off in London this week. 16 students from a wide range of departments are taking part in the 4-week course that will primarily be taught by faculty in the Department of War Studies at the world-renowned King’s College London.

The Clements Center recognizes that great research and scholarship often requires great resources. The Center therefore provides grants to UT students and professors who undertake research at presidential libraries and foreign archives, as well as paper presentations at academic conferences. 

Director of Graduate Studies Professor Mark Lawrence believes “that political fallout from the Iraq war could prove to be less radioactive than that of Vietnam, which took decades to play itself out.” 

On May 13, Strauss Center Director Robert Chesney and Intelligence Studies Project Director Steve Slick spoke to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board about “Separation of Powers and the History of E.O. 12333.” Executive Order 12333 “governs the intelligence efforts of the United States.”

Undergraduate Fellow Jake Barnett has filed this report on his time at the King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Center while studying abroad in Jordan Spring 2015. 

William Inboden and Dan Blumenthal of the American Enterprise Institute published an article in The Weekly Standard making the case for re-establishing a “freedom prong” in U.S. China policy.

Clements Center Graduate Research Assistant and Fellow Megan Reiss was selected by the Rumsfeld Foundation to receive a fellowship to support her research on presidential decision making and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty as she works to finish her PhD in Public Policy.

For two centuries, the staff ride has been the most important tool for combining history education with wargaming. Staff rides at the Clements Center employ pre-reading, classroom discussions, on-site tours, and hands-on simulation exercises.

Dr. Inboden questions the terms of the Iranian nuclear deal in his latest Shadow Government piece, “Why Can’t the White House See What’s Wrong with the Iran Deal?”.

This week in diplomatic and military history for May 7 titled “The Sinking of the Lusitania” is brought to you by Undergraduate Fellow Chase Boone.  

Oil & Gas Journal has published a report by Faculty Affiliate Eugene Gholz and his team of 16 LBJ School students about “implications of unconventional oil and gas production technologies for US national security.”

This week in diplomatic and military history for April 27th titled “Victory or Death” is brought to you by Undergraduate Fellow Anastasia Bradatan.

Intelligence Studies Project Director Steve Slick and Michael Allen have co-authored a piece for Foreign Policy on the 10th anniversary of the DNI.

Dr. John Bew, reader in the War Studies Department at King’s College London and co-sponsor of the November 2014 conference on the Anglo-American special relationship, has published an article in The American Interest based on his talk at the event in London this past fall.

The Clements Center for History, Strategy and Statecraft would like to congratulate Dr. Greg Fenves on being appointed as the next University of Texas president.

On Thursday, April 16, the Clements and Strauss Centers welcomed former Islamabad CIA Station Chief Bob Grenier to discuss his new book, 88 Days to Kandahar: A CIA Diary.

The Clements Center sponsored the participation this week of 16 University of Texas-Austin students in “Exercise Nine Innings” at the United States Marine Corps Command and Staff College in Quantico, Virginia. 

This week in diplomatic and military history for April 20 titled “Mariel Boatlift” is brought to you by Undergraduate Fellow Trey Curran. 

This week in diplomatic and military history for April 13th titled “The Beginning of the American Revolution: The Battles of Lexington and Concord” is brought to you by Undergraduate Fellow Geetika Jerath. 

The Intelligence Studies Project of the University of Texas at Austin announces the inaugural round of an annual competition recognizing outstanding student research and writing on topics related to intelligence and national security.

On Wednesday, April 1, the Clements Center welcomed Dr. Eric Cline of George Washington University to UT Austin to present the Annual Strategic Insights from the Ancient World Lecture. 

On Thursday, April 2nd, the Clements Center hosted U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) at the University of Texas.

The Clements Center will host two leading experts on two of the world’s most important regions, Asia and the Middle East, this week.

Executive Director William Inboden was interviewed by William Marsden for Canada’s main newspaper the National Post for an article titled “Always troubled Mideast has entered a very ‘dark period’ – and experts say it’s only getting worse.”

The Clements Center is seeking applications for funding from undergraduate and graduate students who have secured unpaid summer internships related to national security and foreign policy. Funding will be awarded to those students whose summer work best reflects the mission and goals of the Clements Center.

This week in diplomatic and military history titled “The Fall of Richmond, 1865” is brought to you by Undergraduate Fellow Ciaran Dean-Jones.

The Clements and Strauss Centers were represented by Intelligence Studies Project Director Steve Slick at a March 3, 2015 symposium on A Decade of IC Integration & The Challenges Ahead hosted in Arlington, Virginia by the Intelligence and National Security Alliance.

In his U.S. News and World Report piece, “An Irreducibly Religious Movement,” William Inboden answers the question: Is the President Right to Say ‘Violent Extremism’ Instead of ‘Islamic Extremism’?

Executive Director William Inboden and John Owen IV of the University of Virginia have published an article titled “Putin, Ukraine, and the Question of Realism” in the Spring 2015 issue of The Hedgehog Review.