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…

Sue Gordon’s Remarks from Intelligence Studies Symposium Featured in Washington Post Article

April 4, 2019

Deputy Director of National Intelligence, Susan Gordon, delivered keynote remarks at last week’s Intelligence Studies Project spring symposium: “Intelligence in Transition.” In a follow-up article for the Washington Post, national security reporter and fellow symposium participant, Ellen Nakashima, quoted Gordon’s…

The Advent of the “Digital Mercenaries”

April 2, 2019

Read ISP’s Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Kiril Avramov’s, article in Small World Journal on “The Advent of the “Digital Mercenaries.”

Former Senior Counterterrorism Officials Nick Rasmussen and Michele Malvesti Join UT Austin

March 8, 2019

AUSTIN, Texas – Nicholas “Nick” Rasmussen, the former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), and Dr. Michele Malvesti, a scholar and former White House counterterrorism advisor, will teach and advise students at the University of Texas-Austin. Rasmussen and Malvesti…

Clements Center Database for Student Internships

March 5, 2019

Visit the Clements Center’s Internship and Fellowship Database for more student opportunities in Intelligence and National Security.

Kiril Avramov Article Featured in the Journal of European and American Intelligence Journal

March 5, 2019

Kiril Avramov, ISP’s Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, published “Victory at Any Price: The Drive of Private Intelligence Operators in Pursuit of Enhanced HUMINT Capabilities” an article featured in December 2018’s Issue 2 of the Journal of European and American Intelligence Journal.

CIA Career Open House – Houston on March 8

February 13, 2019

To learn about career opportunities at the CIA, please join us for a career open house in uptown Houston, Friday, March 8 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. To register and receive information about the event, contact Ag**************@**ia.gov.

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