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.”