ISP Faculty in the Field: ISP Fellow Dr. Kiril Avramov Set to Publish Second Book, Receives Eyes of Texas Excellence Award 2026  

April 10, 2026

Next month, Dr. Kiril Avramov, Non-Resident Fellow at the Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project (ISP) and Assistant Professor at the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, will publish his second book of the past year entitled, “Ladders of Escalation: Flexible Modeling in Comparative Cases of the State-Sponsored Targeted Killings,” with Springer Nature. His co-author, Adam…

ISP Tearline Student Teams Brief Texas Army National Guard  

April 7, 2026

On Wednesday, April 1, 2026, students from two Tearline research teams briefed the General Officer Board meeting at the Texas Army National Guard. Brigadier General Monie Ulis, Deputy Adjutant General – Army at Camp Mabry, and his staff praised the students for their high-quality analysis and professional briefing abilities.   In recent years, the Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project…

ISP Partners with College of Natural Sciences on “STEM for National Security” Course

June 5, 2020

In Spring 2020, the Intelligence Studies Project (ISP) piloted a national security course for undergraduates in the College of Natural Sciences (CNS) at the University of Texas at Austin. The course, sponsored by the CNS Inventors Program, was designed and…

ISP Director Discusses Career in Intelligence on the Slavic Connection Podcast

June 4, 2020

ISP Director Steve Slick recently joined Lera Toropin of the Slavic Connection to discuss his nearly three decades in intelligence.  The conversation includes personal accounts of the fall of the Berlin Wall, U.S. efforts to end conflicts in the Balkans,…

Call for Papers: The University of Texas at Austin Announces the 2020 “Bobby R. Inman Award” for Student Scholarship on Intelligence

May 5, 2020

The Intelligence Studies Project of The University of Texas at Austin announces the sixth 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…

CSIS Brief on Intelligence and Emerging Technology

April 27, 2020

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) recently published The Intelligence Edge: Opportunities and Challenges from Emerging Technologies for U.S. Intelligence to frame the work of its Technology and Intelligence Task Force. Brian Katz, a Fellow in the International…

Getting Smart on Pandemics: Intelligence in the Wake of COVID-19

April 20, 2020

ISP Director Steve Slick moderated a recent episode of the “Horns of a Dilemma” podcast now available on the War on the Rocks website. In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Slick leads a discussion of the role of…

ISP Director Steve Slick Appointed to CSIS Technology and Intelligence Task Force

March 24, 2020

The Center for Strategic and International Studies announced today the launch of a Task Force to explore the implications and applications of emerging technologies for the U.S. intelligence community. The Task Force will be led by Stephanie O’Sullivan, a former…

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