Press | 2016

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. 

On April 29th, 2016, General Michael V. Hayden sat down with Admiral Bobby R. Inman for a discussion on “Intelligence and National Security” at UT Austin. Topics ranged from General Hayden’s new book Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror to bureaucracy in the CIA. General Hayden answered questions from the audience…

The Clements Center for National Security is pleased to announce its 2016 Summer Seminar participants.

Thomas C. Reed, the 11th Secretary of the Air Force, argues that “It’s Eisenhower Time for the Republicans.” 

Executive Director Will Inboden will introduce a panel on Thursday 4/28 about “Lessons Learned” from the Vietnam War. 

Anastasia Bradatan, a third-year majoring in Spanish-Portuguese, Hindi-Urdu, and International Relations and Global Studies, will study in India next year. 

Jake Barnett, a fourth year Plan II Honors, History Honors, and Arabic student, won the prestigious Boren Scholarship to study Swahili in Tanzania in 2016-17. 

Executive Director Will Inboden, ahead of President Obama’s visit to Riyadh this week, wrote that it’s in the nation’s interest to maintain a close partnership with Saudi Arabia.

UT System Chancellor William McRaven was named the 2016 Richard M. Helms Award recipient for his nearly four decades of exceptional service to the agency and the nation. 

The conference’s organizers invite paper proposals based on original research that offer new accounts of U.S. foreign and national security policy from 1981 to 1989 (and welcome those that may also partly extend into the Jimmy Carter or George H. W. Bush presidencies). 

Will Inboden discusses historical insights for reforming national security institutions in a book co-edited by Faculty Fellow Jeremi Suri. 

Last Wednesday, the Intelligence Studies Project at the University of Texas-Austin hosted a conference on “Intelligence in American Society.”  

The Clements Center was cited by National Defense Magazine as one of the innovation hubs in Texas for global affairs research.