Past Events

On Monday, March 11, 2019, the Strauss Center is delighted to welcome Steve Coll, staff writer at The New Yorker and author, who will talk about "The Longest War: American Failures in Afghanistan and the Prospects for Peace." Coll, author of Ghost Wars and, most recently, Directorate S: The CIA and America's Secret Wars in Pakistan and Afghanistan, discusses why the United States has failed to achieve its goals in Afghanistan; why Pakistan nurtured the Taliban's revival; and whether the current peace talks have offer any prospects for success.This talk is part of the Brumley Speaker Series.

Please join us for the LBJ School Public Affairs colloquium on March 7, 2019 with Dr. Paul Stekler: “Filming Women in Politics.” 

Join the LBJ Austin Area Alumni Chapter for their annual Spring Alumni Picnic on Saturday, March 2, from noon to 2 p.m., at Festival Beach! Food and drink will be provided, but feel free to bring a dish or dessert of your choice.

On Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019, the Clements Center will welcome William Hitchcock, professor of history at the University of Virginia, for a talk on "Why Ike Matters: America and the World in the 1950s" at The University of Texas at Austin.

On Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019, the Clements Center will welcome Jamie Fly, senior fellow and director of the future of geopolitics and Asia programs at The German Marshall Fund, and Laura Rosenberger, director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy and a senior fellow at The German Marshall Fund for a talk at The University of Texas at Austin.

On Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019, the Strauss Center and Clements Center welcome Tom Ricks, a military historian and author, to give a lecture: "Was George Washington a Strategic Genius?"

On Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019, the Strauss Center welcomes Scott Moore, director of the Penn Global China Program at the University of Pennsylvania, for a talk on "Hydropolitics in China: Water Conflict, Development, and Sustainability in a Rising Power." Drawing on Moore's new book, Subnational Hydropolitics, this talk will explore the role that water has played in Chinese politics, its rapid economic growth, and its struggle to make its development sustainable.

On Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019, the LBJ Washington Center, in collaboration with the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law, is pleased to present LBJ School of Public Affairs Professor Joshua Eisenman for a talk on his recently released book, Red China's Green Revolution. The discussion will be moderated by Gerard Gayou, assistant editorial page writer at The Wall Street Journal.

On Tuesday, Feb. 12, the Clements Center will welcome Mark Pomar, the Clements Center's Senior National Security Fellow and the former CEO and president of the U.S.–Russia Foundation (USRF), for a talk on "Putin's Russia: Implications for US-Russia Relations" at The University of Texas at Austin.