Press | 2018

From the Clements and Strauss Center’s fifth annual Texas National Security Forum. Lorinc Redei of the LBJ School of Public Affairs, moderated a discussion on World Order with Antony Blinken, former Deputy Secretary of State, Eric Edelman, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and Kristen Silverberg, former Ambassador to the European Union.

Dr. Inboden lists ten reasons why US military strength remains essential in global engagement and why the incoming Congress should fund a strong defense budget to maintain American strategic superiority. 

In his latest essay, Professor Slick reflects on President Trump’s destructive relationship with the U.S. Intelligence Community and offers insight to the next administration on repairing the damage.

In the latest episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Philip Gorski, Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies at Yale University, discusses the role of civil religion in American life. 

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Arne Westad, the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University, discusses the Cold War roots of today’s geopolitical trends – specifically, the competition between the United States, Russia, and China for Horns of a Dilemma.

Sam Kleiner, author of the new book The Flying Tigers, tells the story behind the American pilots who were secretly recruited to defend the nation’s desperate Chinese allies before Pearl Harbor for Horns of a Dilemma. 

Gventer provides historical insights to address the questionable suitability of the American system of geographical combatant commands in meeting the nation’s current and future security challenges. 

On Friday, November 30, the Clements Center, Strauss Center, and Intelligence Studies Project convened senior policymakers to discuss “The Return of Great Power Competition” at the fifth annual Texas National Security Forum.

Dr. Inboden joins contributors from Foreign Policy’s “Elephants in the Room” to honor the late former president and his legacy of public service. Full tribute available here.

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Congressman Joaquin Castro, who serves Texas’ 20th District, joins the Clements and Strauss Centers at the University of Texas at Austin to discuss the role of the United States in the world and the role of Congress in foreign policy.

Dr. Lawrence authors a review of “Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy”,  the latest book from famed British journalist and war historian Sir Max Hastings.

State Fragility Initiative Director Ashley Moran, Clements Center Faculty Fellow and Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar Joshua Busby, and Armed Conflict Location and Event Data project Director Clionadh Raleigh collaborate on recent War on the Rocks piece. Listen to the discussion here.

Dr. Inboden discusses Middle East policy and the murder of Jamal Khashoggi on the CBS News Sunday broadcast.

The Clements Center for National Security offers its deepest condolences to the family and friends of Cowden Ward, Jr., reportedly the pilot of the P-51D Mustang that went down in Fredericksburg, Texas, on Saturday, and to the loved ones of his passenger, 93-year-old Vincent Losada.

In yesterday’s Monkey Cage, Eisenman offers analysis on China’s Reform and Opening Up policies supported by his own research on the political economy of China’s development.

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Sarah Snyder, Associate Professor at the School of International Service at American University, talks about her latest book, From Selma to Moscow: How Human Rights Activists Transformed U.S. Foreign Policy.

“The War of the Pacific, Technology and U.S. Naval Development: An International History of Regional War” appears in the October 2018 edition of The Journal of Military History. EBSCO access is required to view. 

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Joshua Shifrinson, Assistant Professor of International Relations with the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, gives a talk on his recently released book, Rising Titans, Falling Giants: How Great Powers Exploit Power Shifts. Shifrinson focuses on the policies that rising states adopt in response to declining…

UT-Austin’s Intelligence Studies Project and the Texas National Security Network announce the 2019 Texas Intelligence Academy (TIA), an intensive academic program focused on intelligence and national security from May 20 – 30, 2019 in Washington, D.C. 

Will Inboden, Director of the Clements Center and the Editor-in-Chief of TNSR, moderates a discussion at the Texas Tribune Festival in the latest podcast from War on the Rocks. Panelists include former CIA Director John Brennan, former Commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command William McRaven, former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Nicholas Rasmussen,…

The Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin seeks applications from current PhD candidates for its Predoctoral Fellowship Program and recent PhD recipients for its Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.

Shilpa Bakre with UT News covers recent Clements and Strauss Centers event with Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer.

Tanvi Madan is director of The India Project and a fellow in the Project on International Order and Strategy in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution. 

Intelligence Studies Project welcomes Dr. Alan Kessler, the Central Intelligence Agency’s first resident intelligence officer (RIO).

Evan D. McCormick, the Robert P. Smith Scholar-in-Residence at the Roxbury Latin School and adjunct professor at Simmons University, chairs a new TNSR policy roundtable on Reagan’s foreign policy legacy.

Applications are now open for our 2019 Summer Seminar program. Apply by Monday, February 11th.

Listen to the second episode in a two-part podcast from the Texas National Security Review, a discussion about the national security dimensions of food insecurity with former UT chancellor and former commander of Special Operations Command retired Adm. William McRaven and Congressman Michael McCaul, Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security.

In a new piece for Foreign Policy’s Elephants in the Room, Executive Director Will Inboden calls for a tough and swift U.S. response to the disappearance of reformist Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. 

R Street Institute Senior National Security Fellow Megan Reiss authors new piece on the latest round of Russian hacking indictments in Lawfare.

LBJ student and Clements Center Graduate Fellow Kelsey Ritchie argues the need for security clearance processing reform as a matter of national security.

2019 London Maymester study abroad program applications now open until Monday, November 5th.