Past Events

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On Thursday, April 15, the Clements Center for National Security and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law will host Martha Bárcena Coqui, Mexican Ambassador to the United States, and Kimberly Breier, senior adviser (nonresident), Americas Program for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), for a conversation on "U.S.–Mexico Relations: Achievements and the Road Ahead." 

On Wednesday, April 14, the Strauss Center and the Intelligence Studies Project will welcome Adam Klein, chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, for a virtual talk on "Terrorism, Surveillance, and Privacy in a Free Society."

On Tuesday, April 13, the Strauss Center, in partnership with the National Security Law Program at Columbia Law School, is pleased to welcome Scott Anderson, Senior Fellow with the National Security Law Program and Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, for a Zoom talk on "National Security Legal Careers, at Home and Abroad."

Dr. Moriba Jah, associate professor of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin and program lead of the Strauss Center's Space Security and Safety Program, will join the LBJ School for a conversation on developing norms of behavior for near earth space. This talk is co-sponsored by the Strauss Center and is tailored for students interested in learning more about space law and policy and the various opportunities at and beyond UT for this field of study.

On Thursday, April 8, the Strauss Center and the Salem Center for Policy in the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin will welcome Tyler Moore, Tandy Associate Professor of Cyber Security and Information Assurance in the Tandy School of Computer Science at the University of Tulsa, for a virtual talk as part of its "Cybersecurity Speaker Series."

On Thursday, April 8, the Clements Center for National Security will host Tom Ricks, Military history columnist for the New York Times Book Review, for a virtual book talk on his recent release, "First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country." 

On April 7, the Clements Center for National Security and the UT-Austin Office of the President will host Karl Rove, former deputy chief of staff and senior advisor to President George W. Bush, for a virtual talk on "America's Broken Politics: How We Got Here, How We'll Get Out of It." University of Texas President Jay Hartzell will introduce Rove.

On Tuesday, April 6, the Strauss Center will host Dr. Henry Hale, professor of political science and international affairs at The George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs, for a virtual talk on democracy, autocracy and revolution in Russia and Post-Soviet Eurasia. His talk will explore how the past three decades of post-Soviet history have been a major disappointment for democracy advocates in all but a handful of cases.

Join the LBJ School Graduate Coordinator team to talk about the application process, the different programs we offer, and the student services we provide.