Press
Student Spotlight: Jonah Isaac completes internship at Spirit of America
Aug 12, 2020
The Clements Center's Student Professional Development Fund provides UT undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to intern at some of the top governmental and non-governmental organizations across the world by providing monetary support for unpaid positions.
Horns of a Dilemma: Who Will Guard the Guardians?
Doyle Hodges , Jim Golby
Aug 07, 2020
We live in an era of almost unprecedented partisan division and polarization where any issue of policy can become one that is deeply divided along party lines, and many of those issues of policy involve the military. We’ve seen this in examples of troops being deployed to the southwest border of the United States and through the use of federal troops in response to the racial justice protests. How does the military avoid becoming partisan in these divisive times?
Doyle Hodges, executive editor of the Texas National Security Review, explores this question with Jim Golby, senior fellow at the Clement Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Bianca Adair to Serve As the New Resident Intelligence Officer at UT-Austin
Aug 06, 2020
Dr. Bianca Adair, an officer in the Directorate of Operations at the Central Intelligence Agency, will serve as the Resident Intelligence Officer at the University of Texas at Austin's LBJ School of Public Affairs from Fall 2020 to Fall 2022.
Sheena Greitens, Faculty Fellow, quoted in two new articles on Chinese tech and security
Sheena Chestnut Greitens
Aug 06, 2020
Sheena Greitens, one of our faculty fellows, continues to be recognized as an asset to journalists with her expertise in Chinese affairs.
New Podcast: The Role of Social Media in International Relations
Doyle Hodges , Sarah E. Kreps
Jul 31, 2020
In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Doyle Hodges, executive editor of the Texas National Security Review, explores how social media has played an increasingly prominent role in the public discourse. Listeners to the War on the Rocks podcast may recall an episode featuring Camille Francois of Graphika, and Jessica Brandt, head of policy and research for the Alliance for Securing Democracy, dealing with the question of disinformation. These topics have also been covered in more popular press with books such as Like War: The Weaponization of Social Media, by P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking, and War in 140 Characters, by David Patrikarakos. But very few of these explorations have gone into how social media effects international relations. Professor Sarah Kreps, the John L. Wetherill professor in the Department of Government and adjunct professor of law at Cornell University, unpacks that very idea in this episode.
