Wisdom without tears: Statecraft and the uses of history
In a recent article in the Journal of Strategic Studies, CC Executive Director Will Inboden and Johns Hopkins SAIS Professor Hal Brands argue that "the making of American statecraft...can be significantly enhanced by a better understanding of the past."
Special Issue on Conservative Internationalism
Drawing from our May 2017 Conference on Conservative Internationalism, the Foreign Policy Research Institute's Orbis Journal published a special edition focused on the conference's topic and featuring articles from the conference's speakers.
Emergent Strategy and Grand Strategy: How American Presidents Succeed in Foreign Policy
Ionut Popescu, who was a Clements Postdoctoral Fellow from 2016-2017 and currently teaches as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas State University, recently published a book on grand strategy.
Breaking with Statism? U.S. Democracy Promotion in Latin America, 1984–1988
Postdoctoral Fellow Evan McCormick published a journal article in Diplomatic History looking into the history of U.S. democracy promotion in Latin America.
The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America’s Highest Office
Faculty Fellow Jeremi Suri explores the history of the American Presidency in his new book.
CC Faculty Fellow Eugene Gholz publishes article in Energy Reserach & Social Science Journal
In "Financial and energy security analysis of China’s loan-for-oil deals," Dr. Gholz examines Chinese investments in oil-producing countries and Chinese energy security policy.
Executive Director authors chapter in edited CSIS volume
Executive Director Will Inboden explores how three mid-twentieth-century presidents transformed the United States in A Global History of the Twentieth Century: Legacies and Lessons from Six National Perspectives, edited by Michael Green and Nicholas Szechenyi.
Grand Strategy vs. Emergent Strategy in the conduct of foreign policy
Clements Center Postdoctoral Fellow Ionut Popescu was recently published in the Journal of Strategic Studies.
Former Post-doctoral Fellow publishes Book Review
Drawing from her work at the Clements Center, former Post-doctoral Fellow Olivia Sohns wrote a book review in the journal Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies on a biography of Israeli diplomat Abba Eban.
UT Harrington Fellow co-authors a book on President Trump's worldview
In their new book, UT Harrington Fellow Charlie Laderman and Cambridge University's Brendan Simms take an historical approach to understanding President Trump's worldview, drawing from interviews as far back as 1980.
Visual Evidence for Roman Infantry Tactics
Michael Taylor, a Clements Center Postdoctoral Fellow from 2015-2016 published an article in the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome Journal on Roman military organization.
Sharing the Burden? The American Solution to the Armenian Question, 1918-1920
UT Harrington Faculty Fellow Charlie Laderman publishes journal article in Diplomatic History about the Anglo-American response to the Armenian question.
Sustainable Security: Rethinking American National Security Strategy
Clements Center Faculty Fellow Jeremi Suri has co-edited a new book on the future of America's National Security Strategy with Dartmouth College professor Benjamin Valentino for Oxford University Press.
New Book by Associate Director Dr. Paul D. Miller
In his new book, American Power and Liberal Order: A Conservative Internationalist Grand Strategy, Dr. Miller argues that US security depends on active, sustained support of the international liberal order.
American Power and Liberal Order
The National Interest published an excerpt of Dr. Paul D. Miller's new book, American Power and Liberal Order: A Conservative Internationalist Grand Strategy.