Press | 2016

DEADLINE APPROACHING: Apply now for the Summer Internship Funding

Apr 13, 2016

Applications for the Student Professional Development Fund are due 4/24.

Joshua Eisenman | Dec 06, 2016

LBJ Professor Joshua Eisenman discusses the implications of President Elect Trump’s phone call with Taiwan’s President. 

Doctoral Opportunities: Call for Applications to Summer Seminar as well as Post-Doctoral and and Pre-Doctoral Fellowships

Dec 06, 2016

The Clements Center for National Security is offering three opportunities that might be of interest to doctoral students or recent PhDs. 

William Inboden | Dec 06, 2016

Writing for the Dallas Morning News and Austin American-Statesmen, Executive Director Will Inboden argues that the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attacks should remind Americans that the world is a better place when the U.S. leads from the front. 

Charlie Laderman | Nov 30, 2016

Harrington Fellow Charlie Laderman is interviewed for the Library of Congress’ Kluge Center podcast. 

“The Rise and Fall of Detente” Conference Recap and Photos

Nov 30, 2016

Historians from around the country gathered at UT-Austin on Friday, November 18th, to discuss major trends in U.S. policymaking in the mid-1970s. 

Robert Chesney | Nov 22, 2016

Professor Robert Chesney discusses the law in place that may prohibit Marine General James Mattis from becoming the next Secretary of Defense in his latest article for War on the Rocks

Robert Chesney | Nov 22, 2016

Strauss Center Director and UT Law School Professor Robert Chesney was recently interviewed by The Cipher Brief about the legal use of drone strikes abroad. 

Emily Waheln | Nov 17, 2016

Graduate Fellow Emily Whalen writes a guest column for Foreign Policy about how historical lessons from the Suez Crisis can help the President-elect avoid a foreign policy crisis in the Middle East. 

Visual Evidence for Roman Infantry Tactics

Michael Taylor | Nov 17, 2016

Michael Taylor, a Clements Center Postdoctoral Fellow from 2015-2016 published an article in the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome Journal on Roman military organization.

Ian Johnson | Nov 16, 2016

Postdoctoral Fellow Ian Johnson writes about the “little-known yet revealing” peasant revolt in Tambov province from 1920 to 1921 for Victims of Communism’s Dissident Blog

Sharing the Burden? The American Solution to the Armenian Question, 1918-1920

Charles Laderman | Nov 09, 2016

UT Harrington Faculty Fellow Charlie Laderman publishes journal article in Diplomatic History about the Anglo-American response to the Armenian question.

Search Over 100 Opportunities on our Internship Database

Nov 07, 2016

The Clements Center has aggregated over 100 internships for students interested in opportunities in Foreign Policy, Human Rights, International Development, International Economics, and Intelligence/Security.

Steve Slick | Nov 07, 2016

ISP Director Steve Slick argues in Foreign Policy that intelligence briefings should not start until after the presidential election. 

ISP offers “Intelligence and National Security” Undergraduate Course

Nov 02, 2016

Register now for this Spring 2017 course taught by ISP Senior Fellow and LBJ Professor J. Paul Pope. 

Sustainable Security: Rethinking American National Security Strategy

Jeremi Suri | Nov 02, 2016

Clements Center Faculty Fellow Jeremi Suri has co-edited a new book on the future of America’s National Security Strategy with Dartmouth College professor Benjamin Valentino for Oxford University Press.  

Nov 01, 2016

In the inaugural “Politics by the Horns” podcast, Executive Director Will Inboden and ISP Director Steve Slick talk to Ryan Pakebusch, a Clements Center Undergraduate Fellow and Student Government Director of Federal Relations, about events and opportunities on campus related to national security. 

Associate Director speaks at Heritage Foundation

Oct 31, 2016

Associate Director Paul D. Miller talks about his new book American Power and Liberal Order: A Conservative Internationalist Grand Strategy during an event hosted by the Heritage Foundation and the Foreign Policy Initiative. 

Paul Pope | Oct 27, 2016

Intelligence Studies Project Senior Fellow and Clinical Professor at the LBJ School Paul Pope reviews David Priess’s The President’s Book of Secrets for Lawfare Blog. 

Carl Forsberg | Oct 27, 2016

Carl Forsberg, a PhD student in the Department of History at UT-Austin, published his work in two separate volumes of collected chapters on countering power structures during and after war. 

Mark Perry | Oct 27, 2016

Associate Director Paul D. Miller talks with Politico Magazine’s Mark Perry on the fifteenth anniversary of the start of America’s war in Afghanistan.

CC Postdoctoral Fellow Ian Johnson to teach History Department course

Oct 19, 2016

Dr. Johnson’s Spring 2017 course “American and Russian Relations through War and Peace” will explore the relationship between Russia and the United States, from 1776 to present, focusing on military and diplomatic interactions. 

Jake Barnett | Oct 13, 2016

Former Undergraduate Fellow Jake Barnett writes about Somalia’s elections and U.S.-supported counterinsurgency operations. 

Video and photos now available [br]from The Herzstein Texas National Security Forum[/br]

Oct 11, 2016

Leading figures from the executive branch, the intelligence community and academia joined the Herzstein Texas National Security Forum at the University of Texas at Austin to discuss the national security issues facing the next President and the impact of Presidential transitions on the nation’s security.

Texas National Security Network Fellowship for DC Internships

Oct 10, 2016

A new fellowship opportunity announced for graduate students who are interested in a national security-related internship in DC during Summer 2017. 

William Inboden | Oct 03, 2016

Following the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11, Executive Director Will Inboden speaks at The Trinity Forum for an Evening Conversation on what constitutes a just war when the enemy is part of a non-state terrorist group. 

LBJ School posts Event Recap of the Herzstein Texas National Security Forum

Sep 30, 2016

Leading figures from the executive branch, the intelligence community and academia joined the Herzstein Texas National Security Forum at the University of Texas at Austin to discuss the national security issues facing the next President and the impact of Presidential transitions on the nation’s security.

Paul D. Miller | Sep 29, 2016

Associate Director Paul D. Miller discussed his new book American Power and Liberal Order with Federalist Radio Hour.

Former CIA Official Paul Pope Joins Intelligence Studies Project as Senior Fellow

Sep 28, 2016

The Intelligence Studies Project at UT-Austin is pleased to announce that J. Paul Pope has joined our team as a Senior Fellow.  Paul will serve simultaneously as a Clinical Professor on the faculty of the LBJ School of Public Affairs.  

Registration Now Available for the Undergraduate Certificate in Security Studies

Sep 26, 2016

Starting December 2016, interested students can register for our new Undergraduate Certificate in Security Studies.

Now accepting applications for [br]the Clements Center’s Maymester in London[/br]

Sep 26, 2016

In May of 2017, the Clements Center for National Security will offer a unique Maymester opportunity titled “The U.S., U.K., and World Order” at King’s College London.

Sep 22, 2016

The live stream of the event will begin at 8:15am on Friday, September 23.

Senior Policymakers and Intelligence Officials to Address National Security and Presidential Transition

Sep 21, 2016

As the nation prepares to elect its 45th president in November, the Clements and Strauss Centers at UT Austin will host a two-day forum to discuss the key national security challenges facing the next president.

William Inboden | Sep 19, 2016

Executive Director Will Inboden, along with John Bew, Academic Director of the Clements Maymester in London program, and Robert Jervis, a member of the Clements Academic Board, contributed to a policy roundtable on the Chilcot Report on British Involvement in the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. 

Remarks by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Manpreet Anand at the LBJ School

Sep 16, 2016

The Department of State published DAS Anand’s lecture to UT students and faculty on Thursday, September 15th. 

New Book by Associate Director Dr. Paul D. Miller

Paul D. Miller | Sep 15, 2016

In his new book, American Power and Liberal Order: A Conservative Internationalist Grand Strategy, Dr. Miller argues that US security depends on active, sustained support of the international liberal order.