Press | 2022

“Some of the most consequential foreign policy debates take place within each party rather than between the parties.” Check out this new piece in Foreign Affairs about the future of foreign policy in the Republican Party by Clements Center Director Will Inboden.

In a new piece on Foreign Policy Research Institute, Clements Center Graduate Fellow Ryan Ashley analyzes the new Japan-Australia Security Agreement and a growing trend for American allies to seek closer security ties with one another through bilateral and “minilateral” arrangements.

Clements Predoctoral Fellow Travis Frederick co-authored a chapter titled “Reception of Great Patriotic War Narratives: A Psychological Approach to Studying Collective Memory in Russia” in the edited volume Researching Memory and Identity in Russia and Eastern Europe: Interdisciplinary Methodologies.

In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Texas National Security Review Executive Editor Doyle Hodges is joined by three scholars of civil-military relations who have published in War on the Rocks or TNSR (or both) on the topic, to discuss the state of American civil-military relations.

Former Clements Postdoctoral Fellow M. L. deRaismes Combes published an article that she wrote while she was here at The University of Texas at Austin about the failures of counterinsurgency (“COIN”). She argues that COIN has led to protracted engagements with unclear and contradictory goals and that that this policy failure can be explained by…

Applications are now open for our eighth annual seminar! The 2023 Summer Seminar will be held from Monday, July 17 – Saturday, July 22 at the Pines Resort in Beaver Creek, Colorado. 

The field of strategy is littered with authors whose works are often-quoted but seldom-read. While Clausewitz is likely the foremost example of such an author, the naval strategists Alfred Thayer Mahan and Sir Julian Corbett are not far behind.  In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Professor Kevin McCranie of the U.S. Naval War…

The Clements Center mourns the death of Secretary Ash Carter. He was a valued member of our Statecraft Board of Reference, and mentor and leader for many of our students and affiliates. As a policymaker, scholar, and thinker he was without peer. Combining a singular background in both science and the humanities, he served with distinction at all levels of American defense policy, culminating in his consequential leadership of the Pentagon as Secretary of Defense. We recall with great fondness hosting his visit to UT-Austin in that role in 2016. Between his stints in government, Secretary Carter could be found at Harvard as a beloved teacher, researcher, and leader of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He leaves a tremendous legacy of service to our nation and our world.

We have updated the list of Spring 2023 courses that will apply for the Undergraduate Certificate in Security Studies and the Graduate Portfolio in Security Studies

Read Martha Bayles review of Clements Center Senior National Security Fellow Mark Pomar’s recent release Cold War Radio: The Russian Broadcasts of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in “‘Cold War Radio’ Review: Listen and You Shall Hear,” published in the Wall Street Journal.

Take a look at the Clements Center’s summer programming and what we have in store for the fall!

In the National Review, Clements Center Executive Director William Inboden writes that the combination of pressure and diplomacy offers the best way to counter Putin, liberate Ukraine, and avoid nuclear war.

Clements Center Alum Jada Fraser was published in Pacific Forum’s recent collection of articles that memorializes the former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe.

Former Postdoctoral Fellow Alexandra Sukalo co-authored this piece with Kristo Nurmis in the Washington Post. They detail how the recently staged referendums are an attempt to discipline Ukrainians into accepting Putin’s rule, not to provide democratic legitimacy.

In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Katie Stallard, a journalist and scholar, speaks about her book, Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia, and North Korea. Stallard details how totalitarian regimes use a doctored version of history–especially history regarding World War II–to forcibly shape public remembrance in a way that reinforces the goals of the regime.

Clements Center Executive Director Will Inboden and Faculty Fellow Jeremi Suri recently published “A generation of the world’s best leaders has died. Now we must look forward.” for CNN, in which they explore what lessons history can provide and what traits should be considered when electing leadership today.

As the European Union has evolved over the past 20 years into a more cohesive social, economic, and political entity, one area of integration has lagged behind the others: defense. This is due to the extensive overlap in membership between the European Union and NATO, and to the reluctance of European governments to spend large…

H-Diplo held a  roundtable on “The Reagan Moment: America and the World in the 1980s.” The book, edited by Jonathan Hunt and Simon Miles, originated from a Clements Center conference held in January 2017.

In Asia Policy Program Director Sheena Chesnut Greitens’ new article in Foreign Affairs, she argues that with much of the West focused on Russia and Ukraine, Xi Jinping’s April 2022 speech on his Quanqiu Anquan Changyi (Global Security Initiative), didn’t receive the attention it should have from Western governments.

Strauss Center Director Adam Klein testified before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, on Protecting Americans’ Personal Data from Hostile Foreign Powers on September 14. 

In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy Daniel Fata discusses the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. Fata explains how decades of U.S. policy under  administrations of both parties was based on what he describes as wishful thinking. 

Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Founding Director of the Asia Policy Program, and Rana Siu Inboden, a Senior Fellow at the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law, were recently quoted in a POLITICO article about how China understands and uses its role in the international system.