Press

The Journal of Strategic Studies published an article by Professor Inboden that constructs a taxonomy of the various ways that national security policy-makers attempt to use history. It identifies four types of history: experience, memory, tradition, and study.

The Clements Center, in partnership with King’s College London, convened its first conference in early-November at the University of Texas at Austin.  Participants from all over the U.S. and U.K. attended the event titled “Diplomacy, Alliances and War: Anglo-American Perspectives on History and Strategy in the September 11th Era.”  

Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times, was recently in Austin to promote his new book Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House and to attend the Clements Center’s annual conference “Diplomacy, Alliances and War: Anglo-American Perspectives on History and Strategy in the September 11th Era.”

Clements Center Post-Doctoral Fellow Steele Brand will offer an undergraduate course in Spring 2014 through UT’s Department of History.

Clements Center Graduate Fellow and UT History PhD student Carl Forsberg recently wrote a piece for the new China Journal at Yale China Hands.

Clements Center graduate fellow Peter Harris was recently featured in the comments section of the Canadian International Council’s website OpenCanada.org.

In September, Clements Center Director Will Inboden and incoming Strauss Center Director Bobby Chesney led a team of scholars in a workshop involving a number of senior officials from the National Security Agency at the agency’s headquarters in Ft. Meade, Maryland.

This year, the University of Texas at Austin announced the establishment of the William P. Clements Jr. Center for History, Strategy and Statecraft. The Center honors the legacy of former Texas Governor Bill Clements, who served as Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1973-1977.

The Clements Center is hosting an upcoming lecture series “Strategic Insights from the Ancient World,” to be held during the 2013-14 academic year.

Clements Center Senior Fellow Jeremi Suri’s article regarding Vladimir Putin’s op-ed in the New York Times is featured in Foreign Affairs magazine.