Press | 2024

Check out McCombs Professor Kishore Gawande’s recent publication, “Bringing Dead Capital to Life: Property Rights Security in China” which explores the impact of China granting nationwide protection to private property rights in 2007.  For further insights into Professor Gawande’s research, please visit here.

In this episode, TNSR Production Editor Kerry Anderson sits down with Joseph Stieb to discuss his article from TNSR: “Why Did the United States Invade Iraq? The Debate at 20 Years.”

The Central Texas American Society of Public Administration (CENTEX ASPA) has awarded the James McGrew Award for a Policy Research Project led by Professor Paul Pope to a group of LBJ School students for their Policy Research Project that focused domestic terrorism in the United States. Read more

Earlier this month, the Clements Center hosted 20 Undergraduate Fellows in Washington, D.C. to kick off the new academic year. Over three days, our fellows formed connections with their peers, engaged with our D.C. community, and visited significant historical sites.   During their time in the nation’s capital, they had the opportunity to tour Arlington…

Jim Goldgeier and Marshall Kosloff discuss the post-Cold War era, NATO expansion, great-power expectations, and the future of the U.S. role in Europe.

Former Clements Center Graduate Fellow and Lt. Col. D. Max Ferguson (Ph.D.) was recently quoted in Task & Purpose for successfully climbing all 46 of the highest peaks in the Adirondack Mountain Range in a single day as part of a WWII tribute with the Army’s 10th Mountain Division. Read the article here.

In this episode, Jeremi Siri is joined by Dr. Michael Kimmage to discuss the ongoing Russia-Ukraine War.

China’s defense spending is difficult to quantify because some assessments make methodological errors that result in inflated figures. Rick Landgraf talks with Taylor, George, and Eric, who explain these flaws and offer a novel method for a more accurate assessment. Their article appears in the summer 2024 issue of TNSR.

The Intelligence Studies Project of the University of Texas at Austin is pleased to announce the winner and two semifinalists in the competition recognizing outstanding student research and writing on topics related to intelligence and national security.   The recipient of the “Inman Award” is Jemima Baar a recent Master of International Affairs graduate of Columbia…

In this episode, TNSR publisher Ryan Evans spoke with the journal’s new editor-in-chief, Prof. Sheena Chestnut Greitens, an award-winning scholar and associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs

The Texas National Security Review, a joint partnership between War on the Rocks and the University of Texas, is pleased to announce that Sheena Chestnut Greitens, PhD, will become its new editor-in-chief, succeeding Will Inboden, PhD. Greitens, an award-winning scholar and associate professor at UT Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs, brings a wealth of expertise and leadership to the Texas National Security…

At the Clements Center for National Security’s Summer Seminar in History and Statecraft, Susan Colbourn and Simon Miles discussed how different concepts of history have shaped the war in Ukraine and how students of international affairs should challenge their assumptions and embrace uncertainty.

For the past ten years, the Clements Center has proudly hosted its annual Summer Seminar in History and Statecraft, selecting advanced doctoral students for a week of learning, discussion and networking.   This year’s highly selective program brought together twenty-one students from premier universities in the U.S. and abroad including Yale, John Hopkins, Georgetown, Princeton, Purdue,…

Congratulations to our alumnus Rohit Goswami on recently graduating from the U.S. Army’s Ranger School.

Ryan Evans talks with Philip Zelikow about his recent article for TNSR, “Confronting Another Axis? History, Humility, and Wishful Thinking.”

Rick Landgraf talks with TNSR author Joshua Byun about how American attempts to leave Europe during the first decade of the Cold War were thwarted by European concerns that German rearmament would trigger a Soviet attack.

TNSR Managing editor Rick Landgraf sits down with Richard Maass, the author of “Salami Tactics: Faits Accomplis and International Expansion in the Shadow of Major War.”

In a new piece for the Carnegie Endowment’s Emissary Blog, Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens offers commentary on South Korea’s new holiday: North Korean Defectors’ Day. 

This year marked the Clements Center’s second iteration of Summer Beyond Borders: Case-Studies in Difficult Diplomacy and our first iteration of the program in South Korea, focusing on the historical challenges and successes of our important allies in the Republic of Korea and US interests in the Pacific. In June, thirteen undergraduate students from UT-Austin…

In partnership with The University of Texas System, the Clements Center for National Security invites applications for The University of Texas Chancellor’s Fellowship. The Chancellor’s Fellow works closely with the Chancellor and his staff to conduct research, prepare briefing materials, and help draft speeches and articles on topics of importance to the Chancellor, both in…

Frank Gavin, chair of TNSR’s editorial board, talks with Joseph Nye about his new memoir, “A Life in the American Century.” This fascinating conversation covers a range of issues, including lessons from Nye’s extensive experience as an influential analyst, policymaker, and scholar. Listen here.

In a new article for Atlantic Council, former Clements Predoctoral Fellow Zoltán Fehér outlines the implications of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s recent visit to Europe and its impact on EU-China relations. Read the full article here.

The Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project hosted the fifth Texas Intelligence Academy (TIA) from May 12 to 21, 2024 in the National Capital Area. The TIA 2024 cohort comprised 15 UT-Austin undergraduate students.

Marshall Kosloff sits down with Luke Schumacher to talk about his recent article in TNSR titled, “Franklin D. Roosevelt, World War II, and the Reality of Constitutional Statesmanship.”

Marshall Kosloff talks with Ambassador Robert Blackwill and Richard Fontaine about their new book, Lost Decade: The U.S. Pivot to Asia and the Rise of Chinese Power.

This year marked our ninth annual London May Term “The U.S., U.K., and Global Order” program. Nineteen undergraduate students from UT-Austin traveled to the United Kingdom, France and Belgium to study the special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom with the world-renowned War Studies Department at King’s College London.  Throughout the month,…

Ahead of the NATO Summit in Washington in July, TNSR Managing editor Rick Landgraf sits down with Katherine Elgin and Alexander Lanoszka to discuss what alliance membership means for Sweden and Finland.

Take a look back at the last semester in our Spring 2024 Newsletter

In this new article, graduate fellow Sam Rosenberg and Jacob Ware delve into the intelligence and deception strategies that shaped the Normandy invasion: “The D-Day deception operation stands as a powerful example of the essential blend of irregular warfare methods with conventional tactics.”

Gavin Wilde joins TNSR managing editor Rick Landgraf to talk about Gavin’s recent article about the effects of foreign propaganda on U.S. domestic politics. They discuss how the fear that hostile foreign powers could subvert democracy by spreading misinformation may be exaggerated, as the relationship between people’s beliefs and attitudes and their media consumption remains…

Congratulations to the Clements Center Strategy Club and the Strategy Team for their exceptional performances at the U.S. Army War College Strategy Competition! One team, composed of LBJ students Bailey Crane, Caitlin Davis, Dalia Slavin, Kate Van Hecke, Kevin Roberts, and Nicholas Stenseng took first place overall. Another team, including Gabriel Kornas, Isabella Chen, José…

In “The Failures of Russian Aerospace Forces in the Russia-Ukraine War and the Future of Air Power,” Jaganath investigates the reasons behind the failures of the Russian Aerospace Forces to acquire air superiority over Ukraine in the early stages of the 2022 war. 

The Clements-Strauss Asia Policy Program hosted Xiaobing Li, professor of history and the Don Betz endowed chair in international studies at the University of Central Oklahoma, for a book talk on China’s New Navy: The Evolution of PLAN from the People’s Revolution to a 21st Century Cold War.

The Clements Center for National Security, the Center for European Studies and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies hosted Michael Kimmage, Professor of History at Catholic University, for a book talk on his upcoming release Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability.

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…

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.