Press | 2023

Emily A. Davis was the grand prize winner of the Andrew W. Marshall prize on Creative Bursts & Intellectual Outliers, which asks people to examine how creativity among peer groups or within an organization comes about, is fostered, and is maintained. Many unanticipated dangers—military, political, technological, foreign, and domestic—shadow the U.S. national security landscape, creating…

Our latest newsletter is out! Take a look back at the spring semester at the Clements Center.

On this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Jonathan Hunt talks about his book, The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam.

Former Clements Center Undergraduate Fellow Cameron Waltz coauthored an opinion piece with Zoe Leung of the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations for The Hill on how the upcoming Taiwanese 2024 presidential election may shape crisis management in East Asia.

On this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, former Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Mission Integration Beth Sanner delivers a candid and enriching lecture about being an intelligence professional at the highest level in the White House.

“…public diplomacy and international broadcasting are fundamental to our national security.” Mark Pomar, a Clements Center Senior National Security Fellow, has a new piece in The Foreign Service Journal.

On this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, William Inboden, editor-in-chief of the Texas National Security Review and executive director of the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin, sat down with Amb. Kay Bailey Hutchison, former United States senator from Texas and, later, the U.S. permanent representative to NATO. The two had a thoughtful and wide-ranging conversation about European security and global energy policy.

The positive reviews for “The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink,” keep rolling in! National Review says that “William Inboden has produced the definitive account of how Ronald Reagan negotiated a peaceful end to the Cold War.” 

In this week’s Horns of a Dilemma, Maj. Ben Griffin, the chief of the military history division at the United States Military Academy, discusses his new book, Reagan’s War Stories: A Cold War Presidency.

“…Japan’s and South Korea’s interests and activities are meeting in strategic spaces in Southeast Asia…Despite sharing common goals in these spaces, so far Seoul and Tokyo have not collaborated in their efforts.” Clements Center alum Jada Fraser and current Grad Fellow Ryan Ashley recently published a new article in Asia Policy, “Common Waters: Japan, South…

Message from the Director

We draw your attention to a Moscow court’s recent sentencing of Russian politician, journalist and historian Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in a penal colony for an earlier treason conviction for his public criticism of Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine. Many of you will recall Kara-Murza’s visit to UT-Austin in February 2022 – two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine. He was invited to Austin by the Clements Center for National Security, Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and the Intelligence Studies Project, together with the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies and UT’s Global Disinformation Lab.

Mark Pomar and Gene Parta joined RFE/RL Pressroom to discuss their experiences and what they learned from RFE/RL’s decades of engagement with Russian speaking audiences. Since the first broadcasts of what was then known as Radio Liberation in March 1953, its journalists and editors have served the needs of their diverse, Russian-speaking audiences. The Russian…

Congratulations to former Clements Center Grad Fellow Augusta Dell’Omo on being awarded UT’s Outstanding Dissertation Award for 2023 for Humanities & Fine Arts! Her research focuses on global white supremacist movements and their use of emerging mass media and Internet technologies. Dr. Dell’Omo is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Presidential history at Southern Methodist…

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 2022-23 academic year. The deadline for submitting papers is June 30, 2023. 

The Clements Center for National Security celebrated our tenth anniversary with a gala dinner in Dallas, Texas on Thursday, March 23rd, 2023. Around 400 friends, supporters, students and alums attended and enjoyed the keynote remarks by Dr. Condoleezza Rice, the 66th United States Secretary of State. She discussed her remarkable personal history, public service, observations on current national security challenges, and the importance of studying history. Our program also included remarks from Jay Hartzell, President of the University of Texas at Austin, George Seay, Chairman of the Clements Center Board, and JB Milliken, Chancellor of the University of Texas System. One highlight of the evening was a special video featuring current and former Clements Center students and their impressive work. The video can be viewed here.

“Debates about appropriate military equipment for Ukraine continue a year after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. These arguments focus predominantly on state-to-state assistance. But they miss an important element of Kyiv’s battlefield performance: informal security assistance. Aid from domestic civil society, informal military networks, and foreign volunteers are bolstering the Armed Forces of Ukraine in real and meaningful ways.”