At a ceremony held in Austin, TX on January 27, 2025, LBJ School Dean JR DeShazo installed Professor of Practice and Intelligence Studies Project Senior Fellow James “Paul” Pope as the Lloyd Hackler Chair in Ethical Leadership. The Hackler Chair has been vacant since…
**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…
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…
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…
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…
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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