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…

“Intelligence in American Society” Report Published

June 27, 2016

Click here for the full text of the report drafted by LBJ School students who participated in the ISP-sponsored Policy Research Project during the 2015-16 academic year on the oversight of U.S. Intelligence. The PRP was led by ISP Director…

Gala in Honor of Admiral Bobby R. Inman Chair in Intelligence Studies

May 24, 2016

On April 29, UT Austin President Gregory L. Fenves, along with the Robert Strauss Center and the Clements Center, hosted a gala dinner honoring Admiral Bobby R. Inman. It was a special evening, and all proceeds from the event are…

Slick quoted on U.S.-Israel Cyber Collaboration

May 20, 2016

ISP Director Steve Slick was quoted this week in the article “How Israel is turning part of the Negev Desert into a cyber-city” (The Washington Post).

LBJ School Students Brief Intelligence Community Leaders

May 19, 2016

Nine LBJ School students from the Policy Research Project on Intelligence in American Society recently returned from Washington, D.C. where they briefed senior U.S. Intelligence Community officials on policy recommendations that emerged from their year-long study of intelligence oversight.

Director Slick on the Ongoing Restructuring at the CIA

May 10, 2016

Slick’s recent article for ForeignPolicy.com, “Measuring Change at the CIA”, evaluates the ongoing restructuring at the CIA.

ISP Director Speaks with Airport Security Managers

April 19, 2016

On April 19, ISP Director Slick met with the Public Safety and Security Committee at the Airports Council International-North America’s annual meeting in Austin.

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