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 Director Joins Civil-Intelligence Relations Discussion

November 20, 2019

ISP Director Steve Slick participated in a recent on-line roundtable discussion of “Civil-Intelligence Relations” organized by the Foreign Policy Research Institute. The roundtable was sponsored by the FPRI’s Program on National Security and included the Institute’s President-elect, Carol Rollie Flynn.

“Influence Operations and Active Measures: The History of Soviet and Russian Political Warfare in the West” Podcast Now Available

November 8, 2019

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Will Inboden, executive director of the Clements Center, sits down with Professor Paul Pope and Dr. Kiril Avramov of the Intelligence Studies Project at the University of Texas and Dr. Calder Walton,…

Brumley Fellow and ISP Director Co-author Essay on Privacy and U.S. Signals Intelligence

October 17, 2019

In an Intelligence Studies Essay on the Lawfare national security site, LBJ School alumnus and former Brumley Graduate Fellow Eric Manpearl and ISP Director Steve Slick call for a reappraisal of Obama-era policies that afford extraordinary privacy protections to incidentally collected data…

ISP Senior Fellow Paul Pope in the Austin American-Statesman

October 16, 2019

On October 15, 2019, the Austin American-Statesman published an opinion editorial by ISP Senior Fellow Paul Pope. Professor Pope discusses the withdrawal of the remaining U.S. forces out of Syria and stresses the need to support Kurdish (and other) allies.…

ISP Now Accepting Applications for Texas Intelligence Academy 2020

September 24, 2019

The Intelligence Studies Project is now accepting applications to participate in Texas Intelligence Academy (TIA) 2020. The TIA is a competitive, all-expenses paid, intensive academic program for UT System students focused on intelligence and national security in Washington, D.C. TIA…

ISP Welcomes Brumley Next Generation Fellows Meagan Bennett, Nathan Bumagny, and Laura Quaglia for the 2019-2020 Academic Year

September 20, 2019

Next Generation Fellows will participate in events and conduct research related to intelligence under the direction of ISP principals.

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