Press | 2016

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

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

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

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. 

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

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.

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. 

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

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.

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

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

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.  

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 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. 

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, 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. 

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.

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. 

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

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.

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

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. 

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.

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

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.  

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

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.

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