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Clements Fellow Selected for the Fulbright Program
Apr 18, 2024
Congratulations to Clements Undergraduate Fellow Simon Gerst on his selection for a 2024-2025 Fulbright award! Simon is a senior triple-major in Jewish Studies, German, and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Simon will spend the academic year in Kyrgyzstan, undertaking research on a project entitled “No One is Forgotten: Rediscovering Kyrgyzstan’s Lost Jewish Émigrés.” He…
Horns of a Dilemma: South Korea’s Grand Strategy
Ramon Pacheco Pardo | Apr 12, 2024
On Wednesday, April 10, the Clements-Strauss Asia Policy Program hosted Ramon Pacheco Pardo, Professor of International Relations at King’s College London and the KF-VUB Korea Chair at the Brussels School of Governance of Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Pacheco Pardo discussed his book, South Korea’s Grand Strategy: Making Its Own Destiny.
Horns of a Dilemma: Fighting in Iraq’s Triangle of Death
Kelly Eads, Dan Morgan | Apr 05, 2024
On Tuesday, March 26, the Clements Center for National Security, the Army ROTC and the UT-Austin History Department hosted Kelly Eads and Dan Morgan for a book talk on their recent release Black Hearts and Painted Guns: A Battalion’s Journey into Iraq’s Triangle of Death.
Senior Fellow Mark Pomar discusses President Eisenhower on Cold War Radio
Mark Pomar | Mar 28, 2024
Dr. Pomar Joined Cold War Radios’ “Waging Peace: Lunch & Learn Series” to lead a discussion of President Eisenhower’s critical role in setting a freedom agenda in the early years of the Cold War. Following WWII, the United States sought to combat communism through a radio broadcast campaign across Europe. These broadcasts confronted the communist…
Clements alum Kyle Balzer writes why “America’s Leaders Don’t Understand Nuclear Weapons”
Kyle Blazer | Mar 12, 2024
In a new article for the National Review, former Postdoctoral Fellow Kyle Balzer explains why America’s nuclear rhetoric is insufficient for a new era of great-power competition. He references rhetoric used by Trump and Biden, as well as within American public discourse.
Asia Policy Program Director Published in Army War College Journal
Sheena Chestnut Greitens | Mar 07, 2024
In a new article for Parameters, the US Army War College Journal, Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens writes on “China’s Use of Nontraditional Strategic Landpower in Asia”. She argues that the People’s Republic of China uses its policy and internal security forces as a nontraditional means of projecting strategic Landpower in the Indo-Pacific and Central Asia….
Horns of a Dilemma: George Shultz and the End of the Cold War
Philip Taubman | Mar 15, 2024
Philip Taubman, a lecturer at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, discussed his latest book, In the Nation’s Service: The Life and Times of George P. Shultz. The conversation touched on the legacy of Secretary Shultz, his approach to the Soviet Union, and is filled with anecdotes from Philip’s time in Moscow at the…
Horns of a Dilemma: AI and Making the Supply Chain More Robust
Megan Reiss and Marshall Kosloff | Mar 13, 2024
Dr. Meg Reiss, the founder and CEO of SolidIntel Inc., sat down with Marshall Kosloff, the national security media and journalism fellow at the Clements Center for National Security, to discuss supply chain risks and how these risks could be mitigated with investments in new technology. The conversation explored the upstream challenges, how to manage…
Horns of a Dilemma: America’s Effort to Shield Itself
Charles Kupchan | Mar 05, 2024
Charles Kupchan, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and professor of international affairs at Georgetown University in the Walsh School of Foreign Service and Department of Government, spoke about the history of isolationism in the United States, its role in the formulation of American foreign policy, and how the idea is now…
Clements Alum Ayumi Teraoka co-authors piece in Pacific Affairs
Ayumi Teraoka and Ryo Sahashi | Feb 23, 2024
In “Japan’s Revolutionary Military Change: Explaining Why It Happened Under Kishida”, Ayumi Teraoka and Ryo Sahashi write about Japan’s rapidly changing security policy. The article evaluates why recent changes occurred under PM Kishida Fumio and what policy implications might exist.
Horns of a Dilemma: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion
Aaron O'Connell and Robert Rakove | Feb 23, 2024
In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Aaron O’Connell, associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin and director of research for the Clements Center for National Security, hosts a discussion with Rob Rakove, a lecturer in Stanford University’s Program in International Relations. They discuss Rakove’s new book, Days of Opportunity: The United…
Horns of a Dilemma: European Security and the Russo-Ukrainian War
Kurt Volker, Gen. Tod Wolters, and Paul Edgar | Feb 09, 2024
Paul Edgar, the associate director of the William P. Clements, Jr. Center for National Security, moderated a discussion with Amb. Kurt Volker, the U.S. ambassador to NATO from 2008-2009, and Gen. Tod Wolters, the former Supreme Allied Commander Europe, about the state of the Russo-Ukrainian war, the future of European security, and the impact of…
Clements Center, Center for European Studies and Strauss Center host conference commemorating 75th anniversary of NATO founding
Feb 08, 2024
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Clements Center joined forces with the Center for European Studies and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law to welcome the Atlantic Council, NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT) and the Consulate General of Canada to the United States…
The Clements Center welcomes Vice Admiral (Ret.) Joe Maguire as Executive Director
Feb 08, 2024
Austin, TX – The Clements Center for National Security is pleased to announce renowned Navy SEAL and former Acting Director of National Intelligence, Vice Admiral (Ret.) Joe Maguire as our new Executive Director. As a Professor of Practice, Maguire will also hold the Sid Richardson Visiting Chair at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, where…
Clements Alum Mike Knickerbocker on CIMSEC’s Sea Control Podcast
Michael Knickerbocker | Jan 26, 2024
Former Military Fellows Michael Knickerbocker joined CIMSEC’s Sea Control podcast to speak about his recent War on the Rocks article, “Written in Black and Red: Asymmetric Threats and Affordable Unmanned Vessels.” He discussed the threat of unmanned surface vessels (USVs), what the U.S. Navy should do about them, and how the U.S. Navy should direct…
Horns of a Dilemma: Foreign Policy in the Johnson Years
Marc Selverstone, Francis Gavin, Sheyda Jahanbani, and Fredrik Logevall | Jan 11, 2024
Marc Selverstone, the director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, co-chair of the Center’s Presidential Recordings Program, and professor of presidential studies, moderated a discussion with Francis Gavin, the Giovanni Agnelli distinguised professor and director of the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at the School of Advanced International Studies…
Horns of a Dilemma: Government Historians and Engagement with Classified Information
Erin Mahan, Adam Howard, John Fox, and Carter Burwell | Jan 02, 2024
Carter Burwell, a Public Interest Declassification Board board member, moderated a discussion with Erin Mahan, Chief Historian at the Office of the Secretary of Defense; Adam Howard, the director of the Office of the Historian at the U.S. Department of State; and John Fox, a historian at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The conversation discussed…
Former Military Fellow Mike Knickerbocker writes on asymmetric threats and unmanned systems for War on the Rocks
Mike Knickerbocker | Jan 03, 2024
In his article, “Written in Black and Red: Asymmetric Threats and Affordable Unmanned Surface Vessels”, Knickerbocker compares the use of unmanned systems in the Red and Black Seas, analyzes the cost and benefit of these systems, and offers projections for the future.