Press | 2016

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. 

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. 

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. 

In The Economist‘s special report on Chinese society, Dr. Joshua Eisenman discusses Chinese nationalism. 

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. 

Board Chairman, George Seay, offers recommendations on how to increase economic and security ties between the United States and the United Kingdom post-Brexit in his latest article for War on the Rocks. 

LBJ students, led by ISP Director Steve Slick and Clements Center Executive Director Will Inboden, produced a report on the oversight of U.S. Intelligence as part of an ISP-sponsored Policy Research Project during the 2015-2016 academic year.

In their latest op-ed for the Dallas Morning News, Executive Director Will Inboden and ISP Director Steve Slick present a summary of their students’ findings from the “Intelligence in American Society” course. 

ISP Director Steve Slick offers recommendations on how presidential candidates can improve their national security platform.

LBJ students participated in an ISP-sponsored Policy Research Project during the 2015-2016 academic year on the oversight of U.S. Intelligence, led by ISP Director Steve Slick and Clements Center Executive Director Will Inboden. 

In UT’s student newspaper The Daily Texan, Maymester students Mrinalini Shah and Ryan Pakebusch talk about their studies at King’s College London, their dinner with UK MP Jo Cox, and the Brexit referendum.  

Executive Director Will Inboden discusses the similarities of the UK Leave campaign and Trump’s presidential campaign in Foreign Policy. 

Executive Director, Will Inboden, pens a heartfelt article about murdered UK MP Jo Cox for Foreign Policy. 

Director of Graduate Studies, Mark Lawrence, reviews Randall Woods’ new book “Prisoner of Hope.”

Executive Director, Will Inboden, offers recommendations on how to use the full spectrum of American power to destroy the Islamic State. 

Drawing on historical parallels, Board Chairman, George Seay, warns of American moral, cultural, and spiritual deterioration in his latest article for War on the Rocks. 

On the eve of the British vote to stay in or exit the European Union, Professor Inboden poses the question “Should America Care Whether Britain Stays in the EU?” in his latest Foreign Policy article.

On Thursday, April 28th panelists gathered to discuss “Lessons Learned” from the Vietnam War, focusing on the war’s effect on America’s foreign and military policy and role on the world stage. 

Ionut Popescu writes about the connections between foreign-born policymakers and American exceptionalism. 

In the latest edition of Passport, a publication from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Executive Director Will Inboden reviewed Charles Edel’s new book Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic. 

Nine LBJ School students from the Policy Research Project on Intelligence in American Society taught by Will Inboden and Steve Slick recently returned from Washington, D.C. where they briefed senior U.S. Intelligence Community officials on policy recommendations that emerged from their year-long study of intelligence oversight.

Professor Steve Slick discusses US-Israel cooperation on cyber activities with Washington Post reporters. 

In an op-ed by former World Bank President Robert Zoellick, Nina Silove‘s work in International Security was referenced. 

On April 29th, the Clements Center for National Security and Strauss Center for International Security and Law hosted a gala in honor of Admiral Bobby R. Inman. 

Dan McCormack has been chosen to receive an Outstanding Dissertation Award for his dissertation “Protection from Themselves: International Hierarchy and Domestic Politics.”

Sarah Kaiser-Cross and Ellen Scholl discuss Saudi Arabia’s recent blueprint to diversity its economy and reduce dependence on oil. 

Writing for Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Will Inboden writes that “the only sure way to stop the genocide is to defeat ISIS on the battlefield.” 

Congratulations to Luke Perez for being awarded the Rumsfeld Fellowship to work on his dissertation.

Dr. Nina Silove‘s article is titled “The Pivot before the Pivot: U.S. Strategy to Preserve the Power Balance in Asia.” 

Steve Slick discusses the ongoing restructuring at CIA for Foreign Policy in “Measuring Change at the CIA.”  

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

Shalaka Joshi, a Plan II Honors and Government senior, was honored for her research on Chinese Expansionism.