The Undergraduate Writing Center is hosting its monthly Write Night Monday and Tuesday, April 24 and 25, 2017 in PCL Learning Lab 1A from 5-9 p.m. The purpose of Write Night is to provide a comfortable, productive environment for students to work on whatever papers they’re writing right now. Writing consultants will be on hand to answer questions and offer mini-consultations upon request. 

 The UWC is located in the UT Learning Commons at Perry- Castañeda Library (PCL 2.330). Questions? Call (512) 471-6222 or visit http://uwc.utexas.edu/.

Monday, April 24^th: Deadline to apply for Summer Internship Funding

The Clements Center awards funds to undergraduate and graduate students who secure unpaid internships in the fields of national security and foreign policy. Please apply on our website by Monday, April 24^th at midnight.

Tuesday, April 25th: America and Its Armed Forces Panel

Please join the Clements Center on April 25th in Sid Richardson Hall Room 3.122 at 12:15pm for a US Army War College panel discussion on “America and Its Armed Forces.” The panel will feature research on defense reform, including analysis of Defense personnel, structure, modernization, and readiness. Clements Center Executive Director and LBJ Professor Will Inboden will moderate the discussion. Panelists include Colonel Jerrett Dunlap, Lieutenant Colonel Mark Ray, Lieutenant Colonel Grey Venverloh, and Lieutenant Colonel Richard Balestri.

Wednesday, May 3^rd: “US Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy—The Evolution of an Incidental Superpower” with Mackubin Owens

Please join the Clements Center on May 3rd in Sid Richardson Hall Room 3.122 at 12:15pm for a talk with Dr. Mackubin Owens, Dean of Academics at the Institute of World Politics, on his recent book “US Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy: The Evolution of an Incidental Superpower.” Dr. Owens recently retired as Professor of National Security Affairs at the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. At the War College, he specialized in the planning of US strategy and forces, especially naval and power projection forces; the political economy of national security; national security organization; strategic geography; and American civil-military relations.

Friday, May 5^th: Conservatives and the World: The Ideas and Statecraft of Conservative Internationalism

The Clements Center and Harrington Faculty Fellows Program are honored to host distinguished academics and former policymakers for a workshop on “Conservatives and the World” from 8:30 am to 3:30pm on May 5^th in the Texas Union Governors Room. This day-long event will explore how a doctrine of conservative internationalism, distinct from liberal internationalism, emerged in U.S. foreign policy over the past century. Scholars will evaluate the core principles and key figures that have contributed to the history of conservative internationalism and assess the extent to which this philosophy continues to inform US diplomacy today.