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…

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…

Video: Remarks by Homeland Security Advisor Lisa Monaco

April 4, 2016

UT-Austin’s Intelligence Studies Project welcomed the President’s Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor, Lisa Monaco, to campus on Wednesday. Ms. Monaco delivered remarks and also fielded questions from students, faculty, and friends from the Austin community on intelligence, counterterrorism, and the…

WH Press Office Transcript of Remarks by Lisa Monaco

March 31, 2016

Remarks by Lisa O. Monaco at the Intelligence Studies Project Conference “Intelligence and National Security in American Society” at the University of Texas-Austin are also available here.

“Chalked Spikes and Bush-Era Intelligence”: Book Review for Lawfare

March 29, 2016

ISP Director Slick’s book review of Michael Hayden’s “Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror”. Read the full article HERE.

ISP Director on Terror Attack in Belgium

March 24, 2016

Slick spoke to Fox News about how the deadly bombings in Brussels will have a lasting effect on security in the U.S. and around the world.

A Discussion with NSA Deputy Director Rick Ledgett

March 9, 2016

On Tuesday, March 8, 2016, the Intelligence Studies Project, the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and the Clements Center for National Security welcomed Rick Ledgett, Deputy Director of the National Security Agency, to speak on issues pertaining to…

Slick Shares Thoughts on “Conversations with a Masked Man” for The Cipher Brief

February 19, 2016

ISP Director Steve Slick recently reviewed John Hadden’s book “Conversations with a Masked Man” for The Cipher Brief’s “Dead Drop”.

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