Press | 2015

“The best way to memorialize kidnapped and murdered American aid worker Kayla Mueller is not by going to war. It’s by following her example,” says Postdoctoral Fellow Steele Brand in his article published in The Federalist. 

This week in diplomatic and military history for March 9 titled “Instability and the Fall of Baghdad, 1917” is brought to you by Clements Undergraduate Fellow Cyrus Huncharek.

“The longest war in American history is over, but the mission is not accomplished. Now more than ever, the world needs our country to lead,” say Executive Director William Inboden and Associate Director Paul D. Miller in their featured article in the latest issue of The Alcalde.

Executive Director William Inboden remembers Boris Nemtsov in his latest post on Foreign Policy’s Shadow Government.

On Thursday, April 2nd at 4:00pm in the Blanton Museum Auditorium, U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) will speak at UT on national security. 

This week in diplomatic and military history for March 2 titled “The Threat of Islamic Traditions in Soviet Central Asia” is brought to you by Clements Undergraduate Fellow Jordan Pahl. 

Associate Director Paul D. Miller has published an article in The American Interest on the democracy promotion, realism, and Niebuhr.

Clements Undergraduate Fellow Jake Barnett has filed this report while studying abroad in Jordan Spring 2015. 

In preparation for tonight’s State of the Union address, Executive Director William Inboden comments on how presidents should think about legacy in his January 20th Shadow Government post.

Executive Director William Inboden blogs about the upcoming Republican primary and the “competition to be Reagan’s political heir” in his latest Shadow Government post. 

The “Presidential Power, Then and Now” lecture series will be hosted by the Clements Center in the spring of 2015. The series will examine the origins of presidential power and how the framers conceived of the office of the presidency.

The Clements Center would like to extend a warm welcome to the new University of Texas System Chancellor William McRaven.