Press | 2022

Clements Center Military Fellow Michael Knickerbocker publishes “Send Skimmers to the Skirmish: A Case for a Wing-In-Ground Effect Attack Craft” for the Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC).

Executive Editor of the Texas National Security Review, Doyle Hodges, recently appeared on the Think podcast. 

In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Professor Danielle Gilbert joins TNSR Executive Editor Doyle Hodges to talk about the concept of hostage diplomacy, and whether or how it may be at work in tensions between Russia and the West arising from Russia’s aggressive war in Ukraine.

Nick Romanow, formerly a Clements Undergraduate Fellow, championed the need for military officers to have well-rounded educations in addition to thorough training experiences.

Commander Michael Knickerbocker, a Federal Executive Fellow at the Clements Center, recently published a piece on The Defense Post outlining the benefits of the U.S. Department of Defense switching over to electric vehicles. 

Clements National Security Journalism Fellow Eli Lake published a piece in Commentary Magazine on the ways Russia’s actions in Ukraine have altered the world order, and what should be done about it. 

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 why the U.S. semiconductor supply should be treated as a matter of national security.

Prior to the invasion of Ukraine, Russian cyber and information operations boasted a fearsome reputation. Surprisingly, Russian cyber operations don’t seem to have played a major role in the invasion, and Ukrainian information operations have routinely bested often-clumsy Russian efforts.

Alexandra Sukalo, a postdoctoral fellow at the Clements Center, published an op-ed in the Washington Post on the recent damage done to Ukrainian archives by Russian forces.

Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Founding Director of the Asia Policy Program, was quoted in a Financial Times article regarding the economic consequences China may face for their support of Russia. 

For nearly two decades, the top security concern of U.S. leaders regarding Iran has been preventing the leaders of the Islamic Republic from attaining this same power. In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Will Inboden and Michael Singh discuss the history, current status, and future of these efforts.

Kay Bailey Hutchison and Will Inboden’s opinion piece on energy security in light of the current war in Ukraine was published in the Houston Chronicle.

The Clements Center for National Security, in partnership with the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, Harvard Kennedy School’s Applied History Program, the LBJ Foundation, and the University of Texas at Austin’s History Department hosted a conference in February 2022 entitled “Civil War and Intervention: U.S. Foreign Policy in International Perspective.”

On Wednesday, March 2nd, the Clements Center for National Security, Asia Policy Program, LBJ School of Public Affairs, Strauss Center for International Security and Law, Intelligence Studies Project, and Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies hosted “War in Ukraine: An Expert Panel Discussion”.

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is remembered for many things, among them his iconic observation that, “There are known knowns–there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns–that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don’t know…

Clements Graduate Fellow Bryan Frizzelle, a PhD candidate at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, appeared on the “This is Democracy” podcast with Faculty Fellow Jeremi Suri to discuss the history of NATO and its importance to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 

Clements Center Graduate Fellow Daniel J. Samet reviewed a new release by Hal Brands, “The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great-Power Rivalry Today” for the National Review.

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, we hear from Joanna Chiu, author of China Unbound: A New World Disorder.

Clements Faculty Fellow Jeremi Suri spoke to Texas Standard about the effect long-term sanctions could have on Russia, and the extent to which China will back Putin. 

This week’s Horns of a Dilemma podcast explores the uncomfortable ways in which jokes about stifled expression in the Soviet Union still resonate in Russia today. Vladimir Kara-Murza is a Russian politician and opposition leader who was twice poisoned and left in a coma by agents of Vladimir Putin’s regime.

Congratulations to Clements Faculty Fellow Jeremi Suri on his upcoming release, “Civil War by Other Means”.