Press | 2018

The Clements Center’s Student Professional Development Fund provides UT undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to intern at some of the top governmental and non-governmental organizations across the world by providing monetary support for unpaid positions. 

In “Washington Needs a New Solarium Project To Counter Cyberthreats,” published in Foreign Policy, Inboden and Feaver compare and contrast Senator Ben Sasse’s proposed Cyberspace Solarium Commission to President Dwight Eisenhower’s Project Solarium exercise in 1953.

In “Why Visit Normandy? Reflections On A Birthplace Of The Liberal International Order,” Paul D. Miller reflects on his past two excursions to Normandy during the Clements Center Maymester program.

As part of the 2017-18 Undergraduate Fellows Program, our Fellows wrote op-eds on a national security topic of their choice. This year, we selected three to share on our website for those students who submitted outstanding work. 

The Clements Center’s Student Professional Development Fund provides UT undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to intern at some of the top governmental and non-governmental organizations across the world by providing monetary support for unpaid positions. 

Galen Jackson examines the role of status in international politics by critically reviewing James Jungbok Lee’s article, “The Importance of Status: The US-ROK Alliance Cohesion and the First Korean Nuclear Crisis, 1993-4,” on the 1993-1994 negotiations relating to North Korea’s nuclear program. 

Clements Center Associate Director Celeste Ward Gventer sat down with Spectrum News to discuss what we might expect after Donald Trump’s “unprecedented” meeting with Kim Jong Un.

In The Hill’s “From Singapore, Skepticism and Hope,” Clements Center Executive Director Will Inboden compares yesterday’s summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un to Madeline Albright’s summit with Kim Jong Il in 2000. 

In an op-ed for Foreign Policy yesterday, Will Inboden examined the effects President Trump’s actions at the G-7 gathering in Quebec would have on the summit with Kim Jong Un, and stressed the importance of our allies.

In an interview with the Texas Standard, Executive Director Will Inboden says the upcoming meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un is tremendously important, as “no other sitting U.S. president has ever met with a leader of North Korea.”

In “Vietnam Revisionism and the Ugly American,” published in Lawfare, Clements Center’s Mark Lawrence reviews Max Boot’s new release, “The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam.”

Each year, we say goodbye to students who have completed their degrees and are joining the workforce. Here are a few highlights from several Clements Center students going on to a bright future after their time at the Forty Acres.

Lieutenant (j.g.) Mark Jbeily, U.S. Navy and former Clements Center Undergraduate Fellow, took home first place for his submission to the US Naval Institute’s Emerging and Disruptive Technologies essay contest.  

In tandem with the Clements Center Fifth Year Anniversary Video honoring the legacy of Bill Clements, the Clements Center also produced another short video featuring testimonials from students and alumni. 

In “Trump Doesn’t Need a Grand Strategy,” Ionut Popescu discusses emergent strategy and grand strategy in the Trump administration, published in Foreign Affairs.

A polling project launched by the Texas National Security Network last summer sought to determine Americans’ perception of intelligence agencies.  

Here’s what happened at the Clements Center this spring! If you would like to subscribe to our Events or Newsletter email list, please sign up here. 

The Texas Intelligence Academy (TIA) welcomed its inaugural class Sunday, May 20 in Washington, D.C. The TIA is a joint venture between UT Austin’s Intelligence Studies Project and the Texas National Security Network.  

TNSR asks the experts: Are the United States and China in a New Cold War? 

Congratulations to Trey Curran, Jessica Patrick and Alex Vermooten on earning the Certificate in Security Studies! 

Jake Barnett, former Clements Center Undergraduate Fellow, covers Trump’s recent meeting with Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari last week to discuss issues of trade, governance and security in and explores the historical roots of Nigeria’s current crises in The Weekly Standard.

Executive Director Will Inboden talks with the Texas Standard about Trump’s May 12 deadline to withdraw from Iran Deal. 

Clements Center Graduate Fellow Luke Perez writes about religion and American foreign policy in “Jacksonians, Progressives & American Foreign Policy’s Anti-Theology”, published in Providence Magazine.

Megan Reiss, National Security Senior Fellow at R-Street Institute and former Clements Center Graduate Fellow, analyzes public opinion on when and how the United States should use military force in “Law and Public Intuition on the Use of Force, Part 1: An Introduction,” published in Lawfare. 

Will Inboden, Executive Director of the Clements Center, offers his insights on President Trump’s upcoming summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in an op-ed published in The Hill.

Austin, Texas – The Intelligence Studies Project of The University of Texas at Austin announces the fourth annual competition recognizing outstanding student research and writing on topics related to intelligence and national security.  

Mark Lawrence, Director of Graduate Studies at the Clements Center, asks “Was the Vietnam War Necessary?” in an op-ed published in the New York Times.  

The University of Texas at Austin’s Intelligence Studies Project (ISP) hosted its Spring Symposium “U.S. Intelligence: Confronting 21st Century Challenges,” on Thursday, March 29 at the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center on campus. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats gave the keynote address, and Senator John Cornyn gave the introduction.

Ryan Duffy with the Texas Exes’ Alcalde chronicled our Five Year Anniversary Celebration last month in Dallas, featuring a keynote address from former U.S. President George W. Bush. 

Joshua Eisenman, Assistant Professor at the LBJ School, examines the history of the Chinese Communist Party’s political outreach in Africa in his recently published article, “Comrades-in-Arms: The Chinese Communist Party’s Relations with African Political Organizations in the Mao Era, 1949-1976.”

CC Postdoctoral Fellow Evan McCormick joins with Alexandra Evans to draw comparisons between the departures of Trump and Reagan’s first Secretaries of State for The Washington Post.