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September 19, 2024

**INFORMATION SESSION – October 21, 2024 at 5:00PM in UT-Austin’s Flawn Academic Center (FAC) 430.** UT-Austin’s Strauss-Clements Intelligence Studies Project is now accepting applications from UT undergraduate students of all academic disciplines to participate in its 2025 Texas Intelligence Academy (TIA). The TIA is a competitive, all-expenses paid, intensive academic program focused on intelligence and…

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UT’s Intelligence Studies Project Announces 2024 Inman Awards for Student Scholarship in Intelligence and National Security

August 13, 2024

The recipient of this year’s “Inman Award” is Jemima Baar, a recent Master of International Affairs graduate of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Her paper, Cold War Confrontations: US Intelligence Insights and Policy Responses to the Sino-Soviet Split and the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis (1956-1961), contrasts the responses by policymakers in the…

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ISP Welcomes Brumley Next Generation Fellows for the 2024-2025 Academic Year

August 26, 2024

For the 2024-25 academic year, three Strauss Center for International Security and Law Brumley “Next Generation” Fellows will be conducting research in the coming academic year under the direction of Intelligence Studies Project fellows. Caitlin Davis Caitlin Davis is a…

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Release of Vladimir Kara-Murza

August 7, 2024

Today, we join the family, friends and many supporters of Vladimir Kara-Murza in celebrating his release from detention in Russia. Vladimir was charged, convicted and imprisoned in an illegitimate process contrived to silence his public calls for an end to…

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Intelligence Apparatuses’ Roles and Functions in the Former Eastern Bloc Totalitarian States

July 12, 2024

Dr. Kiril Avramov, an ISP Fellow, published an article – “Raiders of the Past: Bulgarian State Security’s Cultural Historical Intelligence in Service of Regime’s Quest for ‘Socialist Patriotism’” – in the Journal of Intelligence History. Avramov examines how the Bulgarian Cultural Historical Intelligence Department served…

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5th Texas Intelligence Academy Wraps Up in Washington, D.C.

June 24, 2024

The Strauss-Clements Intelligence Studies Project hosted the fifth Texas Intelligence Academy (TIA) from May 12 to 21, 2024 in the National Capital Area. The TIA 2024 cohort comprised 15 UT-Austin undergraduate students. Students participated in lectures, exercises, and discussions with current and former…

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ISP-Sponsored Project Wins McGrew Outstanding Research Award

May 29, 2024

ISP Senior Fellow and LBJ School Professor Paul Pope (right) and former LBJ School student, Haley Noah (center), received the McGrew Outstanding Research Award from Dr. Jeremi Suri (left). The award recognized an ISP-sponsored policy research project on, “Domestic Terrorism…

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Call for Papers: The University of Texas at Austin Announces the 2024 “Bobby R. Inman Award” for Student Scholarship on Intelligence

April 18, 2024

The Strauss-Clements Intelligence Studies Project of The University of Texas at Austin announces the 10th annual competition recognizing outstanding student research and writing on topics related to intelligence and national security. The winner of the “Inman Award” will receive a cash prize of $5,000,…

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- Bobby R. Inman, former Director of the National Security Agency and Deputy Director of Central Intelligence

"There has been far too little focus in the academic world on the Intelligence Community and the critical role it plays in our country's national security. The Intelligence Studies Project will position the University of Texas at Austin to be a leading academic center on U.S. intelligence."

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- Robert M. Gates, former Secretary of Defense and Director of Central Intelligence

"The Intelligence Studies Project at UT Austin - anchored by the Inman Chair - will allow new generations of young people to learn from and about Admiral Inman, and to learn about intelligence: its many disciplines and dimensions, its structure, how it operates, its strengths and weaknesses, how it is used, and how it can be improved."