Press | 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.

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. 

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

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.

The National Interest published an excerpt of Dr. Paul D. Miller’s new book, American Power and Liberal Order: A Conservative Internationalist Grand Strategy. 

In a three part series, Dr. Ian Johnson writes about the history of the Cambodian mass killings under the Khmer Rouge party and Communist leader Pol Pot.

Faculty Affiliate Joshua Eisenman, a professor at the LBJ School, writes in the Wall Street Journal about Chinese President Xi Jinping’s reform agenda. 

Dr. Charlie Lederman will join us for the 2016-2017 academic year to engage with our scholars, students, fellows, and staff. 

On the 15th anniversary of 9/11, Associate Director Paul D. Miller writes for War on the Rocks about how to defeat jihadism.

Will Inboden reviews Daniel Bessner and Nicolas Guilhot’s “How Realism Waltzed Off: Liberalism and Decisionmaking in Kenneth Waltz’s Neorealism.” 

Daily Texan reporter Reagan Ritterbush writes about our recent event with Dr. Michael Ledeen, Freedom Scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. 

Dr. Eugene Gholz, an Associate Professor at the LBJ School, was quoted in a New York Times article about U.S.-Iranian confrontations near the Strait of Hormuz last week.

This academic year, the Clements Center will host 3 Clements Predoctoral and Postdoctoral fellows: Ionut Popescu, Ian Johnson, and Cindy Ewing.

Commentators from the Providence Magazine, New York Post, Power Line Blog, and others discuss Executive Director Will Inboden‘s recent article in Foreign Policy. 

The Clements Center’s Student Professional Development Fund enables UT undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to intern at some of the top governmental and non-governmental organizations across the world by providing monetary support for unpaid positions. 

Graduate Fellow Simon Miles, currently a Ph.D. candidate in History at UT, was published in the September 2016 issue of Diplomatic History. 

Executive Director Will Inboden wrote a review of Jean Edward Smith’s new biography of former President George W. Bush for Foreign Policy’s Shadow Government. 

Michael Taylor, who was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Clements Center during the 2015-2016 academic year, published an article titled “The Battle Scene on Aemilius Pallus’s Pydna Monument: A Reevaluation” in the peer-reviewed journal Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.