Press | 2017

Executive Director Will Inboden explores how three mid-twentieth-century presidents transformed the United States in A Global History of the Twentieth Century: Legacies and Lessons from Six National Perspectives, edited by Michael Green and Nicholas Szechenyi. 

Clements Center Postdoctoral Fellow Ionut Popescu was recently published in the Journal of Strategic Studies. 

UT Harrington Fellow Charlie Laderman writes for Foreign Policy about the history of President Trump’s worldview.

Daily Texan student reporter chronicled OSU Prof. Peter Mansoor’s talk on campus about “The Rise of ISIS and the Way Ahead in the War on Terror.”

The Clements Center was honored to host a great event with Dr. Adam Garfinkle on President Trump’s Middle East foreign policy. 

Associate Director Paul D. Miller discussed how a recent presidential executive order could affect U.S. intelligence gathering.

The Duke Chronicle detailed Dr. Miller’s talk at Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy with Duke Professor Peter Feaver.  

In a recent Dallas Morning News article, Executive Director Will Inboden discusses the challenges facing newly-confirmed Secretary of State (and UT-Austin alum) Rex Tillerson.

Drawing from her work at the Clements Center, former Post-doctoral Fellow Olivia Sohns wrote a book review in the journal Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies on a biography of Israeli diplomat Abba Eban.

In their new book, UT Harrington Fellow Charlie Laderman and Cambridge University’s Brendan Simms take an historical approach to understanding President Trump’s worldview, drawing from interviews as far back as 1980. 

In a recent Wall Street Journal article on the challenges awaiting Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson, Executive Director Will Inboden is quoted about the unique historical moment.

UT student reporter Kayla Meyertons interviewed panelists and students about the legacy of Ronald Reagan and the benefit of conferences on presidential foreign policy. 

In an essay for Foreign Policy, ISP Director Steve Slick takes a deep look at the current state of the intelligence community and its analysts. Given the current tumultuous political climate surrounding the presidency and intel community, Director Slick offers his expertise on the topic. 

Faculty Fellow and LBJ Professor, Joshua Eisenman, writes for Foreign Policy about the potential pitfalls of China’s new ‘One Belt, One Road’ (OBOR) initiative.

As classes begin on the Forty Acres on Wednesday, we are excited to welcome students back with many exciting new opportunities this semester.