Press | 2017

Dec 14, 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. 

Ionut Popescu | Dec 11, 2017

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

Dan Boylan and Guy Taylor | Dec 08, 2017

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. 

Join us for our Fifth Anniversary Dinner

Dec 08, 2017

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.

Deadline approaching for Summer Seminar application

Dec 07, 2017

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.

William Inboden | Dec 06, 2017

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

APPLY NOW: Texas Intelligence Academy

Dec 01, 2017

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 | Nov 30, 2017

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 | Nov 27, 2017

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.

Alexandra Evans and Evan McCormick | Nov 27, 2017

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

Nov 27, 2017

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

Emergent Strategy and Grand Strategy: How American Presidents Succeed in Foreign Policy

Ionut Popescu | Nov 17, 2017

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.

Paul Edgar David Kneeland | Nov 16, 2017

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.

CC Director of Graduate Studies on Vietnam War, 50 years later

Nov 16, 2017

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

Nov 13, 2017

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 Graduate Fellow wins Minerva Grant from Department of Defense

Nov 10, 2017

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. 

Maria Mendez | Nov 07, 2017

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. 

Mara Liasson | Nov 07, 2017

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. 

William Inboden | Nov 02, 2017

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

Aaron O'Connell | Oct 26, 2017

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

Oct 25, 2017

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

Jake Barnett | Oct 24, 2017

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. 

Video and Photos Now Available [br]from 2017 Texas National Security Forum[/br]

Oct 23, 2017

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

Two New York Times articles feature Director Pompeo’s remarks at the 2017 Texas National Security Forum

Eric Schmitt | Oct 23, 2017

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. 

Mark Lawrence | Oct 20, 2017

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

Nina Silove | Oct 16, 2017

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

Peter Baker | Oct 16, 2017

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

News Coverage of 2017 Texas National Security Forum

Oct 16, 2017

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.

Emily Whalen | Oct 09, 2017

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

Nathaniel Allen and Bradley Potter | Oct 06, 2017

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

Diana Bolsinger | Oct 06, 2017

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

Jay Caruso | Sep 28, 2017

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

William inboden | Sep 27, 2017

Professor Will Inboden discusses current national security threats, including terrorism, North Korea, and his research on President Ronald Reagan, with The Federalist Radio Hour Podcast.  

Andrew Peak and Jeremi Suri | Sep 26, 2017

CC Predoctoral Fellow Andrew Peek and CC Faculty Fellow Jeremi Suri urge diplomacy amid escalating tensions over North Korea’s nuclear program. 

Steve Slick | Sep 26, 2017

The Intelligence Studies Project Director Steve Slick recently reviewed Joel Whitney’s publication Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers in an article published by Lawfare

Jon Askonas | Sep 22, 2017

CC Predoctoral Fellow Jon Askonas, who is completing his Ph.D. in international relations at the University of Oxford, writes his reflections on each episode of Ken Burns and Lynn Novak’s PBS Documentary The Vietnam War.