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Press | 2022
Daniel Samet Reviews Paul Kennedy’s “Victory at Sea”
Daniel J. Samet | Jul 08, 2022
Global (Dis)Information Lab Finds Russian State Media Significantly Inflating the Reported Number of Ukrainian Refugees
Kiril Avramov | Jul 07, 2022
Russian state media has been significantly inflating the reported number of Ukrainian refugees entering the country, perhaps by as much as thousands a day. That’s the finding from the Global (Dis)Information Lab (GDIL), an interdisciplinary research lab at The University of Texas at Austin that recently released a new intelligence report on the subject.
Partnership Spotlight: Texas Podcast Network
Jul 07, 2022
Launched in 2021, the Texas Podcast Network features podcasts produced by faculty members and staffers at the University of Texas at Austin, including Horns of a Dilemma. These shows bring you into conversations about research and campus culture, covering topics from policy to science to student life.
Sheena Chestnut Greitens and Zack Cooper Contribute Chapter to AEI’s “Defending Taiwain”
Zack Cooper, Sheena Chestnut Greitens | Jun 22, 2022
Amy Liu and Ethan Masucol Coauthor Paper on Chinese Filipino Experience During Conflict with China
Ethan Masucol, Amy H. Liu, and Jangai Jap | Jul 06, 2022
Faculty Fellow Amy Liu, former Undergraduate Fellow Ethan Masucol, and Jangai Jap coauthored a new paper, “Islands Apart: Explaining the Chinese Experience in the Philippines”. It explores why, historically and in the present day, the Chinese Filipino community doesn’t experience hostility during times of conflict with China as immigrant communities do elsewhere.
Gilbert and Piché TNSR Article Quoted in NY Times on Griner Case, Hostage Diplomacy
Danielle Gilbert, Gaëlle Rivard Piché | Jul 02, 2022
The New York Times quoted Danielle Gilbert and Gaëlle Rivard Piché in their recent article about Brittney Griner, the WNBA player who has been detained in Russia since February.
Looking back at the “London Maymester: The U.S., U.K., and World Order”
Jun 29, 2022
This year, our annual London Maymester “The U.S., U.K., and World Order” resumed after a two-year hiatus. Twenty undergraduate students from UT-Austin traveled to the United Kingdom and France to study the special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom at the world-renowned War Studies Department at King’s College London.
Clements Center Alumni Win Multiple Awards at SHAFR Annual Conference
Jun 27, 2022
Three Clements Center alumni and affiliates took home prestigious awards at the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) annual conference.
Horns of a Dilemma: History is What States Make of It
Andrew Ehrhardt, Doyle Hodges | Jun 24, 2022
Political scientist Alexander Wendt famously (well, in political science circles anyway) observed of the international system that “anarchy is what states make of it.” In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, we explore the degree to which this observation is true not only of the international system, but also of the mental constructs that states, leaders, and citizens use to think about the concept of an international system and their place in it.
Esther Ko Named a 2022 Hamilton Society National Fellow
Esther Ko | Jun 22, 2022
Looking Back at the Texas Intelligence Academy
Jun 20, 2022
The University of Texas at Austin’s Intelligence Studies Project recently hosted its third Texas Intelligence Academy (TIA) in Washington, D.C. From the end of May through early June, fourteen undergraduate students from UT-Austin, UT-El Paso and UT-San Antonio participated in an intensive academic program focused on intelligence and national security. The cohort attended classroom lectures and exercises with former senior intelligence professionals, including former Clements Center Graduate Fellow and current Lecturer and Graduate Director of the Intelligence and National Security Studies Master of Science program at UT-El Paso, Diana Bolsinger and Clements Center Senior National Security Fellow Nick Rasmussen. The lectures covered a variety of intelligence-related topics, including analysis, human intelligence, technical intelligence, covert action, counterterrorism, intelligence reform, and intelligence-policymaker relationships.
Horns of a Dilemma: We Have Met the Enemy and They Are Us
Barbara McQuade | Jun 17, 2022
In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Barbara McQuade joins TNSR Executive Editor Doyle Hodges to discuss her article and evaluate the current legal and policy environment surrounding domestic terrorism.
Horns of a Dilemma: Word Politics
Rachel Hoff, Will Inboden | Jun 07, 2022
Forty years ago this week, U.S. President Ronald Reagan spoke to the British Parliament in Westminster. In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Clements Center Executive Director (and TNSR Editor in Chief) Will Inboden sits down with Rachel Hoff, policy director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute, to discuss the speech and its legacy.
Horns of a Dilemma: Sanctioned Behavior
Erik Sand | Jun 03, 2022
Economic sanctions are often regarded as a relatively weak tool, especially in response to the use of military force. In part, this stems from scholarship, which suggests that economic sanctions alone rarely lead to war termination. In Vol 3/Iss 2 of Texas National Security Review, however, Erik Sand makes an interesting argument: The effect of sanctions and…
Horns of a Dilemma: The Chinese Fox Guarding the Human Rights Henhouse
Rana Siu Inboden | May 27, 2022
In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Dr. Rana Inboden discusses her new book, China and the International Human Rights Regime, which details (among other things) how one of those states, China, used its position on the council during the institution building phase to try to undercut the strength and effectiveness of the council’s tools.
Daniel Samet in Commentary: “In Asia, Israel Must Choose Wisely”
Daniel J. Samet | May 24, 2022
Clements Graduate Fellow Daniel J. Samet has a new piece in Commentary magazine in which he discusses Israel’s handling of its relationships with India, Japan, and South Korea as well as the future of Israeli diplomacy in Asia.
Will Inboden and Adam Klein on the Hill: “A lesson from the Ukraine war: Secure our semiconductor supply chains”
Will Inboden, Adam Klein | May 23, 2022
In an oped on The Hill, Will Inboden, Executive Director of the Clements Center, and Adam Klein, Deputy Director of the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, explain how semiconductor supply chains are hurting Russia in their war on Ukraine and how they could potentially damage U.S. national security.
Horns of a Dilemma: War Crime and Punishment
Derek Jinks | May 20, 2022
In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, University of Texas Law School Professor Derek Jinks discusses the legal landscape that developed after World War II, which defines the modern concept of war crimes.
Horns of a Dilemma: Solidarity with Ukraine
Lech Wałęsa | May 13, 2022
Few countries in Europe have experienced the vicissitudes of changing political order as directly as Poland. For centuries, Poland was caught between Russia and Germany, often serving as a highway through which one great power or another traveled en route to conquering other territories. This week’s Horns of a Dilemma speaker knows this better than most: Lech Walesa was the leader of the Solidarity labor movement in Poland under Communist rule and later became the first freely elected president of Poland.
Looking back on the AWC “Uncertainty: The Indo-Pacific Region and American Foreign Policy” Conference
May 06, 2022
With support from the America in the World Consortium, the Clements Center for National Security (University of Texas at Austin), in cooperation with the Kissinger Center for Global Affairs (Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies), and the Duke University Program in American Grand Strategy, invited students, scholars and policy practitioners to submit proposals for a one-day conference on issues facing the Indo-Pacific region and its role in American foreign policy and strategy.
Comparative Strategy publishes Tommy Jamison’s new article on Naval Power in Industrial Warfare
Tommy Jamison | May 11, 2022
Former Clements Predoctoral Fellow Tommy Jamison, currently an Assistant Professor in the Defense Analysis Department at the Naval Postgraduate School, published a new article in Comparative Strategy.
Bobby Chesney named new Dean of University of Texas at Austin School of Law
May 10, 2022
The University of Texas at Austin has selected Robert (Bobby) Chesney to serve as the next dean of the School of Law.
Looking back at “Russia’s War on Ukraine and Its Global Impact”
May 09, 2022
On Thursday, May 5th, the Clements Center for National Security hosted Lech Wałęsa, Former Polish President and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, for an event on “Russia’s War on Ukraine and Its Global Impact.” This event was spearheaded by the Polish Club at UT and was cosponsored by the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, the Center for European Studies, the Department of Government, the Liberal Arts Honors Program, the McCombs School of Business Department of Business, Government & Society, and Texas Global.
Horns of a Dilemma: Foreword to Victory: Paul Kennedy on the Naval History of World War II
Paul Kennedy | May 06, 2022
In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, historian Paul Kennedy speaks about his new book, Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II.
Intelligence and National Security publishes Alexandra Sukalo’s new article on Soviet Political Police in Post-WWII Europe
Alexandra Sukalo | May 04, 2022
Clements Postdoctoral Fellow Alexandra Sukalo’s article, “Learning to Think and Talk Like the Locals: The Soviet Political Police’s Efforts to Adapt in Lithuania and Ukraine, 1944-1949”, was recently published in Intelligence and National Security. The author has a limited number of free access codes. If you need one to read the article please email [email protected].
Clements Team Places Second at U.S. Army War College Strategy Competition
May 04, 2022
Last week, The Clements Center sent 10 graduate students to the U.S Army War College to participate in their first US Army War College Strategy Competition.
Horns of a Dilemma Joins the Texas Podcast Network
May 03, 2022
The Clements Center is excited to announce that our podcast platform “Horns of a Dilemma” brought to you by the Texas National Security Review, has joined the Texas Podcast Network. We’re looking forward to joining this collection of podcasts recorded and produced at the Forty Acres.
Predoctoral Fellow Zoltán Fehér’s recent work in Hungary
Zoltán Fehér | Apr 29, 2022
Predoctoral Fellow Zoltán Fehér has recently returned from Hungary, where he had several academic and professional engagements.
Horns of a Dilemma: Can you Spare a Dime? The Full Range of Foreign Policy Tools in Latin America
Carrie Filipetti | Apr 29, 2022
In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, we hear first-hand about how the tools that are available–often abbreviated as DIME for diplomacy, information, military, and economics–were used during the last administration to try to influence the authoritarian regimes in Venezuela and Cuba.
Michael Knickerbocker writes oped for The Hill on why electronic vehicles would be a positive change for the U.S. Military
Michael Knickerbocker | Apr 28, 2022
Michael Knickerbocker, a Federal Executive Fellow at the Clements Center, wrote an oped for The Hill on why electronic vehicles would be a positive change for the US Military.
Daniel Samet reviews Martin Indyk’s “Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy”
Daniel J. Samet | Apr 25, 2022
Clements Graduate Fellow Daniel J. Samet reviewed Martin Indyk’s new release, “Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy” for Not Even Past.