Past Events

On Thursday, October 15, the Clements Center for National Security and Strauss Center for International Security and Law will host Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, and Susan Glasser, staff writer at The New Yorker, for a virtual book talk on their recently released biography on James Baker, The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III. Please join us from 12:15 - 1:30 pm CDT. Registration begins at 12:00 pm.

On Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, the Strauss Center will host Dr. Erum Haider, assistant professor in political science and environmental studies at the College of Wooster, for a virtual talk. This webinar is part of our Brumley Speaker Series.

On Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020, the Strauss Center and the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) at The University of Texas at Austin will host a virtual talk by Steven Dudley, director of InSight Crime, on his book MS-13: The Making of America’s Most Notorious Gang. The talk will be livestreamed on LLILAS's Facebook page.

The Clements Center for National Security and the University of Texas History Department will host Michael Kimmage, professor and chair of the Department of History at The Catholic University of America for a virtual talk on Oct. 8 on his recently published book, The Abandonment of the West: The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy.

On Tuesday, Oct. 6, the Clements Center for National Security, the Stimson Center and Stimson's 38 North program, and the Korean Defense Veterans Association (KDVA) will be hosting a webinar "It's Not Just Over There: The American Commitment to the Korean Peninsula." Speakers include Gen. (Ret.) Vincent K. Brooks and Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens.

On Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, the Strauss and Clements Centers welcome back Dr. Julie Schafer for a second conversation on the tough decisions governments face in responding to pandemics. Building upon the original event earlier this year in February, Professor Michele Malvesti, Ph.D., Senior National Security Fellow at the Strauss and Clements Center, will sit down with Dr. Schafer to review the current state of the COVID-19 response; delineate events and effects that pandemic plans did and did not anticipate; evaluate where the United States and other countries have been successful and where we have fallen short; and discuss forward pathways to a post-COVID normal.

On Tuesday, Sept. 29, Clements Center Executive Director Will Inboden and Senior Fellow Jim Golby will host a virtual event:"November Elections: The Candidates on American Foreign Policy." Join us at 12:15 p.m. CDT for this discussion. Registration opens at 12 p.m.

The Clements Center for National Security and the University of Texas History Department will host Michael Kimmage, Professor and Department Chair, Department of History at The Catholic University of America for a virtual talk on Oct. 8 on his recently published book, The Abandonment of the West: The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy.

On Tuesday, Sept. 15, the Clements Center for National Security will host Rebeccah Heinrichs, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, for a virtual event on "Deterring War with Major Powers," 12:15–1:30 p.m. CT.