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Jeff Decker, Noah Sheinbaum, Marshall Kosloff, | Mar 23, 2024

Marshall Kosloff, the Clements Center National Security media and journalism fellow, moderated a discussion with Jeff Decker, the managing director of Tech Transfer for Defense at Stanford University’s Doerr School of Sustainability, and Noah Sheinbaum, the founder of Frontdoor Defense, about their recent article, “Shining a Light on the Defense Department’s Industrial Base Problems.”

Philip Taubman | Mar 15, 2024

Philip Taubman, a lecturer at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, discussed his latest book, In the Nation’s Service: The Life and Times of George P. Shultz. The conversation touched on the legacy of Secretary Shultz, his approach to the Soviet Union, and is filled with anecdotes from Philip’s time in Moscow at the…

Megan Reiss and Marshall Kosloff | Mar 13, 2024

Dr. Meg Reiss, the founder and CEO of SolidIntel Inc., sat down with Marshall Kosloff, the national security media and journalism fellow at the Clements Center for National Security, to discuss supply chain risks and how these risks could be mitigated with investments in new technology. The conversation explored the upstream challenges, how to manage…

Kyle Blazer | Mar 12, 2024

In a new article for the National Review, former Postdoctoral Fellow Kyle Balzer explains why America’s nuclear rhetoric is insufficient for a new era of great-power competition. He references rhetoric used by Trump and Biden, as well as within American public discourse.

Sheena Chestnut Greitens | Mar 07, 2024

In a new article for Parameters, the US Army War College Journal, Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens writes on “China’s Use of Nontraditional Strategic Landpower in Asia”. She argues that the People’s Republic of China uses its policy and internal security forces as a nontraditional means of projecting strategic Landpower in the Indo-Pacific and Central Asia….

Charles Kupchan | Mar 05, 2024

Charles Kupchan, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and professor of international affairs at Georgetown University in the Walsh School of Foreign Service and Department of Government, spoke about the history of isolationism in the United States, its role in the formulation of American foreign policy, and how the idea is now…

Aaron O'Connell and Robert Rakove | Feb 23, 2024

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Aaron O’Connell, associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin and director of research for the Clements Center for National Security, hosts a discussion with Rob Rakove,  a lecturer in Stanford University’s Program in International Relations. They discuss Rakove’s new book, Days of Opportunity: The United…

Ayumi Teraoka and Ryo Sahashi | Feb 23, 2024

In “Japan’s Revolutionary Military Change: Explaining Why It Happened Under Kishida”, Ayumi Teraoka and Ryo Sahashi write about Japan’s rapidly changing security policy. The article evaluates why recent changes occurred under PM Kishida Fumio and what policy implications might exist.

Kurt Volker, Gen. Tod Wolters, and Paul Edgar | Feb 09, 2024

Paul Edgar, the associate director of the William P. Clements, Jr. Center for National Security, moderated a discussion with Amb. Kurt Volker, the U.S. ambassador to NATO from 2008-2009, and Gen. Tod Wolters, the former Supreme Allied Commander Europe, about the state of the Russo-Ukrainian war, the future of European security, and the impact of…

The Clements Center welcomes Vice Admiral (Ret.) Joe Maguire as Executive Director

Feb 08, 2024

Austin, TX – The Clements Center for National Security is pleased to announce renowned Navy SEAL and former Acting Director of National Intelligence, Vice Admiral (Ret.) Joe Maguire as our new Executive Director. As a Professor of Practice, Maguire will also hold the Sid Richardson Visiting Chair at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, where…