Press | 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.

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…

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.

Take a look back at our Spring 2022 Semester! 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The University of Texas at Austin has selected Robert (Bobby) Chesney to serve as the next dean of the School of Law.

On Thursday, May 5^th, 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.

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.

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 alexandra.sukalo@austin.utexas.edu.

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.

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 has recently returned from Hungary, where he had several academic and professional engagements.

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, 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.

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.

Dr. Jeremi Suri, Zachary Suri, and Dr. Emily Whalen and discuss the history and current situation of the civil war in Syria, Russia’s involvement in that civil war, and how that conflict parallels the ongoing war in Ukraine.

In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, University of Florence professor Patrick Cohrs examines how the rules of political order may change.

The Intelligence Studies Project of The University of Texas at Austin announces the 8th annual competition recognizing outstanding student research and writing on topics related to intelligence and national security. The winner of the “Inman Award” will receive a cash prize of $5,000, with two semifinalists each receiving a cash prize of $2,500. This competition is open to unpublished work by undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in degree programs at accredited U.S. higher education institutions during the 2021-22 academic year. The deadline for submitting papers is June 30, 2022. 

Boren Scholarships provide up to $25,000 to U.S. undergraduate students to study abroad in areas of the world that are critical to U.S. interests and underrepresented in study abroad. 

Mark Lawrence, argues in his new book, The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era, that the war in Vietnam marked dramatic re-thinking of ambitions in U.S. foreign policy.

Clements Senior National Security Fellow Mark Pomar was recently interviewed by the Russian-language Voice of America regarding the current situation in Ukraine. 

Clausewitz–or at least the version of Clausewitz that is taught in many war colleges–has bedeviled generations of students by offering several “trinities.” First, there is the relationship between emotion, chance, and reason which governs events in war. Emotion itself can be broken down as a balance between hatred, violence, and primordial enmity.  At the level…

We have updated the list of Fall 2022 courses that will apply for the Undergraduate Certificate in Security Studies. 

Clements Executive Director Will Inboden and alumnus Nick Romanow published a commentary on War on the Rocks re what can be learned from Trans-Siberian Pipeline dispute when it comes to managing alliances while confronting a hostile great power.  

In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, we hear from author and journalist Joby Warrick about his new book, Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and America’s Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World.