Press | 2020

Editor-at-Large for War on the Rocks, Usha Sahay, releases new limited-run podcast A Most Terrible Weapon. Written and hosted by Sahay for the interested non-expert who is keen to learn about the role nuclear weapons play in our society and history. This new endeavor was made possible through the generous sponsorship of the Carnegie Corporation and the…

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Will Inboden, executive director of the Clements Center at the University of Texas at Austin, sits down with Jim Golby, senior fellow at the Clements Center, to discuss the similarities and differences in foreign policy between a second Trump administration or a Biden administration. Their conversation covers…

During this week, UT will celebrate a commitment to free speech and demonstrate how diverse perspectives are welcomed on campus and are integral to the educational environment.

Graduate fellow, Daniel Samet, encourages a clear position on communism in the U.S. power competition with China in his new article for The Bulwark. 

In the latest episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Clements Center Senior Fellow Jim Golby sits down with National Security Fellow Brandon Archuleta to talk about his new book, Twenty Years of Service: The Politics of Military Pension Policy and the Long Road to Reform. Archuleta’s book unpacks the forces that are behind the long persistence…

Stephen Slick, Director of the Intelligence Studies Project, a joint partnership between the Clements Center for National Security and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, dives into the implications for American Safety in this year’s presidential election for Foreign Policy.

Clements Center Director of Research Aaron O’Connell published “The War in Afghanistan is Nineteen Years Old: What Can it Teach us about Violence in American History?” for Not Even Past on the 19th anniversary of US entry into Afghanistan. Faculty Fellow Jeremi Suri contributed to this article.

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Will Inboden, executive director of the Clements Center at the University of Texas at Austin, sits down with Evelyn Farkas, president of Farkas Global Strategies and former deputy assistant secretary of defense, to discuss global politics in the era of Trump. Dr. Farkas provides a survey of…

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Aaron O’Connell, associate professor of history at the Clements Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and Michel Paradis, a law professor at Columbia Law School and Georgetown Law School, discuss Paradis’ book, Last Mission to Tokyo, which examines the aftermath of the Doolittle Raid. In April 1942,…

Clements Center Senior Fellow Jim Golby publishes “Rearming Arms Control Should Start with New START Extension” for The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) as part of the CSIS executive education program Understanding the Russian Military Today. Golby argues Trump should extend New START w/out preconditions because “it will buy the time needed for the United States…

On the latest episode of “Thank You For Your Service” podcast, Jim Golby, Clements Center Senior Fellow, and Alice Hunt Friend, senior fellow in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), discuss “The Outpost,” the groundbreaking movie about one of the deadliest battles in Afghanistan. On an early October morning in 2009, an…

Clements Center Executive Director Will Inboden discusses the role of the National Security Council in U.S. Foreign Policy for The Hopkins Podcast on Foreign Affairs (POFA), an entirely student run Podcast at Johns Hopkins University founded in 2017.

In “It’s Too Soon For America To Kill Its Grand Strategy” Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Texas State University and former Clements Center Postdoctoral Fellow Ionut Popescu responds to recent criticisms of grand strategy.

Intelligence Studies Project Director Steve Slick joined former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence for Community Management Joan Dempsey and The New Yorker Executive Editor and Author David Rohde on September 16 for a virtual meeting on “Trust and Distrust in the American Political System” hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations. Panelists discuss the intersection of U.S. politics…

Johns Hopkins University Press releases a timely and poignant collection of essays, including a co-authored chapter by Clements Center Director Will Inboden, on Covid-19 and World Order. 

Clements Center Predoctoral Fellow Peter Slezkine publishes review of Michael Kimmage’s Abandonment of the West: The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy combined with a broader reflection on the history of US leadership in “The Case for Questioning U.S. Leadership” in National Interest. 

In Financial Times “China’s great power play puts Asia on edge” authored by James Kynge in Hong Kong, Kathrin Hille in Taipei, Christian Shepherd in Beijing and Amy Kazmin in New Delhi, Clements Center Faculty Fellow Sheena Greitens notes that “China’s foreign policy is increasingly a reflection of the attempt to seek regime security . . ….

If you think of the 1990s, you may think of the “The Simpsons,” Nirvana, or “Seinfeld.” But if you’re a security or policy wonk, one of the things you’re going to remember about the decade is a military response option that seemed to be one of the first things officials considered for almost any dilemma…

Clements Center Senior Fellow Jim Golby explores the military’s role in politics in “Trump allegedly disparaged America’s war dead. The backlash probably won’t decide the election.” published in the Washington Post.

Senior Undergraduate Fellows Archit Oswal, Madison Lockett, Peter Denham, Nicholas Romanow, Soren Ettinger DeCou, and Caroline Nicholson collaborated on an article tackling the multi-faceted topic of “Post-Pandemic National Security” for Real Clear Defense. 

The Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin welcomes its 2020-21 class of pre and postdoctoral fellows. Peter Slezkine of Columbia University and Theo Milonopoulos of Columbia University are this year’s predoctoral fellows. Jaehan Park of Johns Hopkins SAIS is an America in the World predoctoral fellow who will remain…

In the latest episode of Horns of Dilemma, Will Inboden, editor-in-chief of the Texas National Security Review, and Ashlyn Hand, a Ph.D. candidate at the LBJ School at the University of Texas at Austin, speak with Lauren Turek, a professor at Trinity University, about her new book, To Bring the Good News to All Nations: Evangelical Influence…

Sheena Greitens, Sheena Greitens, associate professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and a Faculty Fellow for the Clements Center for National Security, adds context to Paul D. Shinkman’s analysis on the tension between China and India, which has escalated after the incident near the Pangong Tso Lake this week.

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, William Inboden, editor-in-chief of the Texas National Security Review, is joined by Robert Zoellick, former president of the World Bank, and Philip Zelikow, former executive director of the 9/11 Commission and counselor to numerous administrations, to discuss Zoellick’s new book, America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy…

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Sheena Greitens, associate professor at the LBJ School at the University of Texas, moderates a discussion between Tanvi Madan, senior fellow in the foreign policy program at the Brookings Institution, and Jim Steinberg, professor of social science, international affairs, and law at the Maxwell School at Syracuse…

Nicholas Romanow and Archit Oswal, both senior undergraduate fellows at the Clements Center for National Security, co-authored an article for the Journal of Sino-American Affairs entitled: The Dangers of Decoupling. The two burgeoning scholars take a deep dive into the implications of both the Trump administration and Biden campaign approaches to the ever evolving US-…

Sheena Greitens, associate professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and a Faculty Fellow for the Clements Center for National Security, was quoted in a recent New York Times Article by Chris Buckley, “‘Drive the Blade In’: Xi Shakes Up China’s Law-and-Order Forces.” Citing Mao, the Communist Party has started a campaign to…

The Intelligence Studies Project of the University of Texas at Austin is pleased to announce the winner and two semifinalists in its sixth-annual competition recognizing outstanding student research and writing on topics related to intelligence and national security. The recipient of the 2020 “Inman Award” for student scholarship on intelligence is Diana Bolsinger, a PhD…

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Doyle Hodges, executive editor of the Texas National Security Review, sits down with professor Bartholomew Sparrow, professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin and author of, The Strategist: Brent Scowcroft and the Call of National Security, to talk about the late Brent Scowcroft.

Jim Golby, one of our faculty fellows, has co-authored an article with Kori Schake in Defense One on civil-military relations. “The Military Won’t Save Us – and You Shouldn’t Want Them To” adds to the ongoing discussion over constitutional and military protocols in regard to presidential succession. 

We live in an era of almost unprecedented partisan division and polarization where any issue of policy can become one that is deeply divided along party lines, and many of those issues of policy involve the military. We’ve seen this in examples of troops being deployed to the southwest border of the United States and…

Dr. Bianca Adair, an officer in the Directorate of Operations at the Central Intelligence Agency, will serve as the Resident Intelligence Officer at the University of Texas at Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs from Fall 2020 to Fall 2022.

Sheena Greitens, one of our faculty fellows, continues to be recognized as an asset to journalists with her expertise in Chinese affairs.

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Doyle Hodges, executive editor of the Texas National Security Review, explores how social media has played an increasingly prominent role in the public discourse. Listeners to the War on the Rocks podcast may recall an episode featuring Camille Francois of Graphika, and Jessica Brandt, head of policy and research for the Alliance…

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.