Past Events

On Tuesday, Feb. 2, the Clements Center for National Security, Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and Intelligence Studies Project will host Markus Garlauskas, nonresident senior fellow with the Asia Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council and Former National Intelligence Officer for North Korea, for a virtual talk on "The North Korea Forecast for 2021: A Former National Intelligence Officer's View." 

On Tuesday, Feb. 2, the Strauss Center, Intelligence Studies Project and Clements Center are pleased to welcome Markus Garlauskas, a former North Korea national Intelligence Officer and Nonresident Senior Fellow with the Asia Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council, for a virtual talk on "The North Korea Forecast for 2021: A Former National Intelligence Officer's View." Sheena Chestnut Greitens, associate professor of public affairs at the LBJ School, will moderate the talk.

On Thursday, Jan. 28, the Clements Center for National Security will host Dan Bumenthal, director of Asian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, for a virtual book talk on his recently published book, "The China Nightmare: The Grand Ambitions of a Decaying State."

The Space Security and Safety (SSS) Program at The University of Texas at Austin's Strauss Center and the Cockrell School of Engineering, in partnership with the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), will hold the 7th annual Space Traffic Management conference, "Trust, But Verify: Incentivizing Compliance Through Shared Monitoring and Assessment." The conference will take place virtually via Zoom webinar on Tuesday, Jan. 26 and Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021.

The Space Security and Safety (SSS) Program at The University of Texas at Austin's Strauss Center and the Cockrell School of Engineering, in partnership with the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), will hold the 7th annual Space Traffic Management conference, "Trust, But Verify: Incentivizing Compliance Through Shared Monitoring and Assessment." The conference will take place virtually via Zoom webinar on Tuesday, Jan. 26 and Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021.

For decades, polls have shown that a majority of Americans want to replace the Electoral College with direct election of the president by popular vote. Yet since the election of 2000 the issue has become partisan, so that a constitutional amendment would be unlikely to get the necessary supermajority in Congress. The National Popular Vote campaign is an effort to make the Electoral College obsolete without a constitutional amendment, by getting a critical mass of states to agree to allocate their Electoral College votes to the winner of the national popular vote.

Classes begin for the spring semester of the 2020–21 academic year.

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On Dec. 14, 2020 at 7 p.m. CT the LBJ School will host a virtual ceremony for the 2020 Outstanding Alumni Awards. Award winners include Alejandra Castillo, Distinguished Public Service Award recipient and Lauren Rose, Rising Leader Award recipient.

As another wave of the COVID-19 pandemic spreads throughout the U.S. and other countries around the world, leaders continue to refine their strategies for mitigating the worst effects of the pandemic. Effective policy is critical, but across the U.S., systemic inequity has been exacerbated by unequal distributional impacts from the pandemic and from the policy response across racial, ethnic and class lines. Before policymakers can prepare to alleviate burdens that disproportionately fall on already vulnerable communities, we first need to understand and expect these impacts — we need to model them.

Now more than ever, women are taking on top leadership roles in government and national security — most notably with the recent election of the first female vice president, Kamala Harris. On this week’s LBJ In the Arena, we welcome Anne-Marie Slaughter, the CEO of New America and the Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.