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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 second-year Master of Global Policy Studies student at the LBJ…
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…
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 Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, respect for basic human…
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 as a policy support tool for the socialist regime’s pursuit of legitimacy…
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 professionals on intelligence collection, analysis, espionage, geospatial intelligence, measurement and…
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 in the Digital Age.”
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, with two semifinalists each receiving a cash prize of $2,500. This…
Apply Now for Texas Intelligence Academy 2024
September 28, 2023
**INFORMATION SESSION – October 24, 2023 at 5:00PM in UT-Austin’s Flawn Academic Center (FAC) 430.** The Intelligence Studies Project is now accepting applications to participate in Texas Intelligence Academy (TIA) 2024. The TIA is a competitive, all-expenses paid, intensive academic program for UT undergraduate students focused on intelligence and national…
UT Report on Chinese-Built Infrastructure in Papua New Guinea
September 21, 2023
Student researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, led by ISP Senior Research Program Manager Kim Nguyen, recently published an open-source assessment on the strategic value of Chinese-built infrastructure projects in Papua New Guinea. The report assessed China’s investments in Papua New Guinea, an area of growing strategic competition…
2021-2022 Public Attitudes on US Intelligence
September 1, 2023
ISP-Sponsored Surveys During the Biden Presidency Affirm Continued Strong Public Support for the Intelligence Community But Also Signal Growing Partisanship The Chicago Council on Global Affairs recently published the results of two annual polls sponsored by UT-Austin’s Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project. The surveys conducted in 2021 and 2022 confirm that…