Press | 2016

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. 

Executive Director Will Inboden and Clements Center Graduate Assistant Anna Waterfield co-author a new piece in Foreign Policy, discussing jihadist groups in Africa. 

A video of Hon. Lisa Monaco’s Keynote Address at the “Intelligence in American Society” Conference is now available online. 

Sarah Kaiser-Cross, a former Clements Center graduate student, wrote an op-ed for Foreign Policy’s Best Defense on the rise of ISIS in Bangladesh. 

The Clements Center for National Security and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law hosted U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter at UT Austin on March 31st, 2016.

In his review “Chalked Spikes and Bush-era Intelligence”, Steve Slick, Director of the Intelligence Studies Project, discusses the newly published memoir from Michael Hayden, former Director of the CIA and NSA. 

Follow the “Intelligence in American Society” Conference via the live stream beginning at 9:00am CST on March 30, 2016. 

Associate Director Dr. Paul D. Miller has published an article in the Journal of Strategic Studies in Spring 2016 on the misuse of historical analogies for the war in Afghanistan.

Executive Director William Inboden points out the similar foreign policy beliefs and positions that both Trump and Obama hold.

ISP Director Steve Slick was recently interviewed on Austin’s FOX7 News about the recent Brussels attacks and global terrorist networks.

In his latest piece, Executive Director William Inboden calls for a new offensive strategy against ISIS, writing that “the attack highlights an uncomfortable truth: The American and European approach to combatting ISIS is not succeeding.”

Executive Director William Inboden was recently interviewed by local news stations KVUE and KEYE about the March 22, 2016 terrorist attacks in Brussels.

In his most recent blog post for ForeignPolicy.com, Professor William Inboden poses a series of questions based on President Barack Obama’s interviews with The Atlantic on his foreign policy. 

The Clements Center for National Security is pleased to host Ambassador Said Jawad for a talk titled “America’s Longest War: The Afghan Perspective,” on Tuesday, April 5 at 12:15pm in the Main Building, room 212. This event is cosponsored by the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, the South Asia Institute, Alexander Hamilton Society, Student Veterans Association, and the International Affairs Society.

The Clements Center, Strauss Center, and UT’s Intelligence Studies Project invite you to attend the “Intelligence in American Society” conference on March 30, 2016 at the AT&T Hotel and Conference Center. The luncheon keynote speaker is The Honorable Lisa O. Monaco, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism. Cosponsors include the LBJ School of Public Affairs, the Center for Politics and Governance, UT Student Veterans Services, and the Alexander Hamilton Society. 

Clements Center Associate Director Dr. Paul D. Miller has published an article in the spring 2016 issue of Orbis titled “On Strategy, Grand and Mundane.”

In their recent op-ed in The Philly Inquirer, Clements Center Executive Director William Inboden and the Bush Institute’s Director for Human Freedom Amanda Schnetzer argue that despite many obstacles, the U.S. must regain its ground as a global champion.

In his latest piece, Professor William Inboden discusses the U.S.’s role on the sidelines during the historical meeting between the Pope and the Patriarch.

In February 2016, Associate Director Paul D. Miller published a piece in The American Interest on Obama’s legacy in Afghanistan.

Clements Center Associate Director, Paul Miller, publishes article in The American Interest titled “Obama’s Failed Legacy in Afghanistan.”

Steve Slick, Director of the Intelligence Studies Project, featured in the 62 episode of ‘The Hook‘, a weekly UT news show.