Press | 2017

A look back at everything that happened at the Clements Center this fall. If you’d like to subscribe to our Events or Newsletter email list, please sign up here. 

Former Postdoctoral Fellow Ionut Popescu writes for Foreign Policy about implementation of President Trump’s forthcoming National Security Strategy. 

Prof. Steve Slick, who served in the CIA for almost three decades and now leads the Intelligence Studies Project, was quoted in a Washington Times article on the controversy involving the recent election. 

Please join us on Friday, February 23, 2018 for an anniversary dinner with keynote speaker The Hon. George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States.

In July 2018, the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin will convene a weeklong seminar for doctoral students focused on the connections between statecraft and history.

CC Executive Director Will Inboden explains in Foreign Policy current diplomatic trends in Israel and the wider strategic situation in the Middle East. 

The Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project and the Texas National Security Network announce the inaugural Texas Intelligence Academy (TIA), an intensive academic program focused on intelligence and national security from May 20-30, 2018 in Washington, D.C.

Mackubin Owens, who spoke at a Clements Center lecture earlier this year, wrote a review of Associate Director Paul D. Miller’s book American Power and Liberal Order for the Orbis Journal. 

William James, a doctoral candidate in international relations at Oxford and recent CC Summer Seminar participant, wrote for War on the Rocks about British global strategy.

CC Postdoctoral Fellow Evan McCormick joins with Alexandra Evans to highlight the ways history can inform current challenges at the State Department. 

George Seay will take over as Chairman of the Texas-Israel Chamber of Commerce. 

Ionut Popescu, who was a Clements Postdoctoral Fellow from 2016-2017 and currently teaches as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas State University, recently published a book on grand strategy.

CC graduate fellow Paul Edgar teams up with David Kneeland (a LBJ School graduate student, Chancellor’s Scholar, and former CC undergraduate fellow) for an article in Foreign Policy.

Fifty years later, Professor Mark Lawrence looks back at the year 1967 and controversy surrounding the American War in Vietnam. 

Predoctoral Fellow Andrew Peek was a guest on Fox News to talk about President Trump’s visit to Asia and larger U.S. strategy in the region.

Clements Center Graduate Fellow Andrew Stravers has been awarded a $1.2 million grant from the Department of Defense’s Minerva Initiative. He will work with a team to research the political, social, and economic effects of global US military deployments on host state populations. 

The Daily Texan covered the launch of the Texas National Security Review, aquarterly academic journal which launched in October 2017 as a joint partnership between War on the Rocks and the Texas National Security Network. 

In a recent NPR article and news segment, Executive Director Will Inboden and CC Faculty Affiliate H.W. Brands take a look at the current administration from the viewpoint of an historian. 

Executive Director Will Inboden reviews three books by eminent national security policy scholars for the International Security Studies Forum.

CC Faculty Fellow Aaron O’Connell, who teaches military history at UT, wrote an article for Slate about U.S. military operations in Niger. 

“The Texas National Security Review is a new kind of journal committed to excellence, scholarly rigor, and big ideas.”

Jake Barnett, who was a CC Undergraduate Fellow from 2014-2016, explains why U.S. forces are in the Sahel and defense issues surrounding the recent attacks in Niger. 

On October 12th, the Clements Center, Strauss Center, and Intelligence Studies Project joined together to host our fourth annual Texas National Security Forum.

Eric Schmitt, the Times senior reporter covering terrorism and and national security, attended this year’s forum and quoted CIA Director Michael Pompeo’s remarks in two recent articles. 

CC Director of Graduate Studies Mark Lawrence reviews the second volume of Stephen Kotkin’s biography of dictator Joseph Stalin for the New York Times. 

Former CC Postdoctoral Fellow Nina Silove wrote an article on grand strategy for the journal Security Studies.   

CC Executive Director Will Inboden was quoted in The New York Times about presidential history and the gap between promises and policies. 

On Thursday, October 12th, the Clements Center, Strauss Center, and Intelligence Studies Project convened senior policymakers to discuss “Alliances and Partnerships in American National Security” at the fourth annual Texas National Security Forum.

Graduate Fellow and doctoral candidate in History Emily Whalen writes for Foreign Policy about the idea of a fire-free zone. 

Two CC Summer Seminar alumni, Nathaniel Allen and Bradley Potter, collaborate to co-author an article for War on the Rocks. 

Graduate Fellow Diana Bolsinger reviewed two new books on Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate’s (ISI) activities. 

CC Executive Director Will Inboden was interviewed by Jay Caruso at the Dallas Morning News about options for dealing with North Korea.