ISP Tearline Team Partners with UT’s Asia Policy Program to Report on Chinese Construction of Police Training Facilities in the Global South 

September 25, 2026

In partnership with UT Austin’s Asia Policy Program (APP), ISP’s Tearline team published a report on Chinese construction of police training infrastructure in at least four countries — Nepal, Costa Rica, Samoa, and Uzbekistan — over the past 12 years. Construction of a police training facility is usually part of a wider, latticed outreach effort…

ISP Tearline Team Provides Update on Chinese Infrastructure Projects in Papua New Guinea

July 16, 2026

ISP’s Tearline student research team recently published an open-source report examining the status of four critical People’s Republic of China (PRC) infrastructure projects in Papua New Guinea (PNG): The team assesses that PRC contractors are likely experiencing project setbacks and stagnation at ISEZ and Hoskins and Gurney Airports, extending their presence at strategic PNG locations amid…

ISP Faculty in the Field: Dr. Kiril Avramov to Publish Co-Edited Volume on Foreign Intelligence Services; Provides Expert Analysis to Chilean Newspaper  

July 15, 2026

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 a co-edited volume, Comparative Foreign Intelligence Services: Framing Policy and Threat Perception, with Routledge this fall. His co-editor, Dr. Bianca Adair, is a former CIA Operations Officer and former…

Texas Intelligence Academy – A New May-Term Offering

July 15, 2026

In May 2026, the Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project offered the 7th Texas Intelligence Academy (TIA) in the nation’s capital as an official university May Term—an intensive, for-credit course. Students participated in lectures, simulations, briefing exercises, and discussions with current and former professionals on intelligence and national security—to include collection, analysis, covert action, intelligence oversight, cybersecurity, and intelligence support…

Dr. Lance Hayden Named Fellow of the Intelligence Studies Project

January 27, 2017

We are pleased to announce that our UT Austin faculty colleague Dr. Lance Hayden will be affiliated with the Intelligence Studies Project as a Fellow starting in the 2017 Spring Semester.

CIA Student Information Session at UT Austin

January 20, 2017

Regional CIA recruiters invite UT Austin students to attend an information session to find out more about the CIA’s paid internship, scholarship, and co-op opportunities.

ISP Director Assesses the State of the Intelligence Community

January 12, 2017

In his January 11 essay for Foreign Policy, ISP Director Steve Slick took a deep look at the current state of the intelligence community and its analysts. Given the current tumultuous political climate surrounding the presidency and intel community, Director Slick…

Student Opportunities: CIA Summer Internship Applications

December 15, 2016

Summer internship opportunities for students interested in employment with the CIA opened up today, December 15, 2016. The applications for the Directorate of Operations Undergraduate Internship Program, which caters to freshman only, are now available.

Michael Gibbs Reviews Khlevniuk’s New Book

November 23, 2016

ISP Brumley Next Gen Fellow Michael Gibbs recently reviewed Oleg Khlevniuk’s Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator (Yale University Press, 2016) for the Lawfare Blog.

Slick and Inboden Discuss “Does Bevo Spy for the CIA?”

November 14, 2016

ISP Director Steve Slick and William Inboden, Clements Center Executive Director, were recently interviewed on the UT Austin Student Government’s Podcast “Politics by the Horns” about the role the University plays in studying and shaping national security and intelligence policies.

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