Press | 2025

In “No Peer Rivals American Grand Strategy in the Era of Great Power Competition” Dr. Ionut Popescu takes a major staple of International Relations scholarship—the offensive realist paradigm—and develops a comprehensive and practical grand strategy for the United States in this new era of Great Power Competition. 

On Wednesday, March 5, Dr. Joseph Ledford testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on advancing American interests in the Western Hemisphere. Among the attendees was Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, a respected leader on national security issues who has spoken at several Clements Center events.

“The last several years of ponderous deliberation over a crewed sixth-generation fighter has left the U.S. Air Force to face the real possibility that it will see China field an operational crewed sixth-generation fighter before it fields its own” writes McNally.

In his new commentary for CSIS, Calculating the Cost-Effectiveness of Russia’s Drone Strikes, Lieutenant Colonel Neil Hollenbeck argues “The United States should learn from the operational lessons emerging from the skies over Ukraine to adapt its own formations for future war.” Read it here.

Former Clements Center Postdoctoral Fellow, William Chou, co-authors piece for Hudson Institute on the recent summit between Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba and President Trump. Read it here.

Faculty Fellow and Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar Dr. Joshua Busby’s research with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs has given insight on a number of US foreign policy issues. Dr. Busby research included surveying over 450 foreign policy opinion leaders prior to the 2024 election, with questions targeting foreign policy issues including ongoing global conflicts, US…

On January 27, 2025, the LBJ School of Public Affairs proudly celebrated several new faculty recipients of prestigious chair and professorship titles, honoring their exceptional contributions to public policy research, teaching, and leadership. Among those recognized were Vice Admiral Joe Maguire, Executive Director of the Clements Center, and James “Paul” Pope, Senior Fellow of the…

Dr. Pomar and Yuri Rashkin joined by Benjamin Nathans, Alan Charles Kors Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania to discuss Nathans latest book, “To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement.” Listen here.

On Friday, January 24, the Clements Center for National Security and the LBJ School of Public Affairs, in partnership with American in the World Consortium and Austin PBS, hosted a conference on the importance of active American engagement, titled “Engagement over Retreat: The Bipartisan History of American Leadership.”  Clements Center Executive Director, Admiral (Ret.) Joe Maguire, opened the event…

In a recent publication for Foreign Policy, Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens and Dr. Issac B. Kardon write that “Vietnam Wants U.S. Help at Sea and Chinese Help at Home”. The article explains why Washington shouldn’t overestimate its influence in Hanoi. The co-authors also argue that strategic competition between the United States and China does not mean…

In this special episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Rick Landgraf talks with Jane Vaynman and Tristan Volpe, co-authors of “Dual Use Deception: How Technology Shapes Cooperation in International Relations,” published in the journal International Organization. The study won IO’s 2023 Robert O. Keohane Award for best research article published by an untenured scholar.

In this episode, Rick Landgraf talks with Jeffrey Ding, author of “Machine Failing: How Systems Acquisition and Software Development Flaws Contribute to Military Accidents,” featured in Volume 8, Issue 1 of the Texas National Security Review. They discuss how flaws in the U.S. military’s systems acquisitions process can lead to accidents.

In his article “How to Transform the Army for Drone Warfare,” Lieutenant Colonel Neil Hollenbeck argues that the U.S. Army should establish provisional drone formations within existing divisions or corps to rapidly develop and integrate drone capabilities, rather than creating a separate Drone Corps, ensuring effective adaptation to modern warfare. Additionally, the article was selected…

This research will integrate engineering analysis, social science theories, and economic modeling to shed light on the potential economic and socio-political consequences of limited nuclear conflicts. Learn more about Dr. Sankaran here: https://lbj.utexas.edu/sankaran-jaganath

In this episode, Rick Landgraf talks with Andrew Forney, author of “Davy Crockett and the Boy Scouts: The Korean War and Mismanaging Protracted Conflict,” featured in the Texas National Security Review. They discuss how a series of strategic force management decisions undermined the ability of the United States to militarily coerce China and North Korea.