Events

On Wednesday, February 1, the Asia Policy Program and the Strauss Center for International Law & Security are hosting Aynne Kokas, the C.K. Yen Professort at the Miller Center and Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia, to discuss her latest release Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty at 12:15 PM at RLP 1.302E, Robert L. Patton Hall. This talk will be moderated by Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens, founding Director of the Asia Policy Program and Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. The Asia Policy Program is a joint effort of the Clements Center for National Security and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law.

On Tuesday, February 8th, the Alexander Hamilton Society at UT-Austin, the Clements Center for National Security and the International Relations and Global Studies Council are hosting General Robert B. Neller, former Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, for a conversation on "The Future of the U.S. Marine Corps in the Indo-Pacific." Join us at 5:30 pm in SRH 3.122 at The LBJ School of Public Affairs.

On Thursday, February 16 at 12:15-1:30pm the Strauss Center for International Security and Law in conjunction with the Clements Center for National Security will host international development expert Daniel Runde as he discusses his new book, The American Imperative: Reclaiming Leadership Through Soft Power. Mr. Runde argues that China and Russia fill vacuums—vacuums that are digital, healthcare-oriented, infrastructural, commercial, security-related, value-related, and ones that occupy the multilateral system. In turn, the US and its allies must invest in a positive agenda that meets the hopes and aspirations of its partners to fill such vacuums. Great-power competition, Mr. Runde maintains, is not going to be fought in Beijing and Moscow. Rather, it is currently being fought in the post-Soviet space, Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. This competition is contested in areas of development and other forms of soft power. While power is undoubtedly expressed in more violent arenas—as seen in Ukraine—most of this contest will be through means other than war. Mr. Runde hopes to spark a national conversation about how and for what end we are going to use our non-military forms of our power overseas given the challenges and opportunities in front of us as a country. He calls for supporting broad based economic growth, supporting good governance and anti-corruption, long term training, differentiating our approaches in middle-income countries and fragile states and stronger US leadership in the multilateral system. The event is open to the public, no RSVP required. Lunch will be served.

Join us on March 1-2 for the 9th annual Space Traffic Management Conference. Register now!

The LBJ School Urban Lab presents Meet the Mayors, a series dedicated to exploring opportunity and prosperity in America’s cities.

On Tuesday, April 18, the Asia Policy Program is hosting Isaac B. Kardon, Assistant Professor in the Center for Naval Warfare Studies at the U.S. Naval War College & Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to discuss his latest release China's Law of the Sea: The New Rules of Maritime Order at 12:15 PM at RLP 1.302B, Robert L. Patton Hall. This talk will be moderated by Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens, founding Director of the Asia Policy Program and Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. The Asia Policy Program is a joint effort of the Clements Center for National Security and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law.

The 52nd group of LBJ School graduates, the class of 2023, gather to celebrate the accomplishments and bright future of graduates from all over the world.