On Thursday, April 7^th, at 12:15pm in the Eastwoods Room at the Texas Union, the Clements Center for National Security will host Mary Beth Long, former Assistant Secretary of Defense, who will give a talk on the Middle East and Terrorist Financing, as part of the Women and National Security Speaker Series. Mary Beth Long is the first-ever Senate confirmed female Assistant Secretary of Defense and worked directly with Secretaries of Defense Rumsfeld and Gates on the Department’s highest priority issues. She represented the Secretary of Defense with his foreign counterparts, and at the National Security Council and the White House and was one of the Secretary’s key advisors. This event is co-hosted by the Strauss Center for International Security and Law and the Women in Foreign Affairs student organization.

On Monday, April 11^th, at 12:15pm in the Bass Lecture Hall at the LBJ School, the Clements Center for National Security and the UT Alexander Hamilton Society are hosting Professor Colin Dueck of George Mason University and Dr. Josh Busby of UT for a lunchtime discussion on Obama’s Foreign Policy. Dr. Dueck will discuss his recently published book “The Obama Doctrine: American Grand Strategy Today.” Dr. Busby will challenge his assertions and look back at the President’s foreign policy successes and failures.

On Wednesday, April 13^th, at 12:15pm in SRH 3.122 at the LBJ School, the Clements Center, Intelligence Studies Project, and the Strauss Center are pleased to welcome Dr. Gregory Treverton, Chairman of the National Intelligence Council and advisor to the Director of National Intelligence, to speak on “Thinking About Global Futures.” Dr. Treverton previously held several leadership positions at RAND, including director of the RAND Center for Global Risk and Security, director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center, and associate dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His work at RAND has examined terrorism, intelligence and law enforcement, as well as new forms of public–private partnership.

On Tuesday, April 19^th, at 12:15pm in the Eastwoods Room at the Texas Union, Clements Center for National Security will host Professor Daniel Sargent of the University of California, Berkeley for a talk titled “A Superpower Transforming: Power, Agency, and the Evolution of the Pax American.” This talk will assess key inflection points in the superpower career of the United States, especially the 1970s, and it will ask how American decision-makers have tried—and failed—to comprehend, corral, and command the forces that have transformed world politics since 1945.

On Thursday, April 20 at 5:15pm in Bass Lecture Hall at the LBJ School, the Clements Center for National Security and UT’s British Studies Program is pleased to welcome Dr. James Williams, Director of the National Churchill Museum, to give a talk on Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech.

And finally, on Monday, April 25^th at 12:15pm in SRH 3.122 at the LBJ School, the Clements Center for National Security and the UT Alexander Hamilton Society are pleased to host Mr. Wess Mitchell, President of the Center for European Policy Analysis. Mr. Mitchell will be talking about his latest co-authored book titled “The Unquiet Front: Rising Rivals, Vulnerable Allies, and the Crisis of American Power.”

The Undergraduate Fellows Program provides teaching, mentorship, professional development, and research opportunities for UT-Austin’s youngest aspiring statesmen and scholars. Fellows will convene monthly throughout the academic year to participate in discussion groups, be mentored by the Clements Center’s affiliated scholars, meet with distinguished guests and visiting speakers, and exchange ideas on their course projects. Each year will also include at least one field tour of a nearby historic site related to diplomatic and military history. Preference will be given to undergraduates whose coursework and/or extracurricular activities bear directly on American foreign policy, military and diplomatic history, and international security. A competitive application process will yield each academic year’s class of 15-20 Fellows. The deadline for the 2016-2017 academic year applications is Monday, April 18.  Please go to our website for more information and to submit your application!

The Summer Student Development Fund awards funds to undergraduate and graduate students who secure unpaid summer internships in the fields of national security and foreign policy. Applications for Summer 2016 are due Monday, April 25^th. Awards will be granted to those students whose summer work best reflects the mission and goals of the Clements Center. Past recipients have interned with the US Department of State, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the McCain Institute for International Leadership, the Project on Middle East Democracy, and the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. Please go to our website for more information. Because internships in foreign and defense policy can be an essential part of professional development and career opportunities in national security policy, the Clements Center wants to help UT students in identifying and pursuing internship opportunities. We have created an Internship Database containing information on a broad range of internships in foreign policy, human rights, international development, international economics, and intelligence/security. This is an excellent resource for students that can be found on our website.