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The German Marshall Fund of the United States launched the Emerging Powers Policy Forum in 2013 in which the Clements Center’s Executive Director William Inboden took part and authored a chapter titled “Global Security Challenges Confronting Established and Emerging Powers.”

Peter Harris, Clements Center Graduate Fellow, likened the current situation in Ukraine, and Russia’s intentions in the region, to the 1938 crisis when western elites tried to appease Nazi Germany in his piece in the National Interest titled “Munich’s Lessons for the Ukraine Crisis.”

The Clements Center received 50 applications for its first annual Summer Seminar in History and Statecraft in Beaver Creek, CO and from that group selected the following 17 participants:

Clements Center National Security Fellow Celeste Ward Gventer appeared in a recent edition of the New York Times’ “Room for Debate,” weighing in on how the international community can minimize the risk of a terrorist resurgence in Afghanistan after the U.S. and NATO pull out all troops from the region.

In an opinion piece for The New York Times, Clements Center Director William Inboden argues recent events in Ukraine prove that Russia does not respect the responsibility and requirements of G-8 membership and should not enjoy its privileges and prestige.

On Monday, March 3, the Clements Center for History, Strategy & Statecraft and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law welcomed author Tom Ricks to give a talk on his book entitled, The Generals: American Military Command from WWII to Today.

Mark Lawrence, Clements Center Director of Graduate Studies, published The Vietnam War: An International History in Documents (Oxford University Press) on February 28, 2014.

In Professor Inboden’s latest Shadow Government blog post on fp.com, he discusses his recent trip to Chicago to attend a conference on security and privacy co-sponsored by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and Notre Dame’s International Security Program.

Professor Eugene Gholz argues for more targeted investments in the military to rebuild the relationship between the Army and industry in his commentary in the “critical thinking” section of the Army AL&T magazine.

Eugene Gholz, Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, discusses the evolution and production of weapons platforms since the end of the Cold War in his piece co-written with Harvey M. Sapolsky in The National Interest titled “End of the Line.”