ISP Tearline Team Reports on Russian Air Base Infrastructure Development in Libya

June 5, 2026

ISP’s Tearline student research team recently published an open-source report examining improvements at six existing Libyan air bases since the arrival of Africa Corps, a Russian state-controlled military group, in April 2024. The team assessed that expanding infrastructure development at Libyan air bases where Africa Corps has an established presence likely advances Russia’s military foothold in North Africa and the…

ISP Tearline Team Reports on Russia’s Construction of Defense Towers near Yelabuga Drone Facility

May 28, 2026

ISP’s Tearline student research team recently published an open-source report analyzing key takeaways regarding the Russian Federation’s construction of two defense towers near its Yelabuga drone facility following Ukrainian airstrikes in Tatarstan throughout 2025. Although the effectiveness of these defense towers in countering drones remains unclear, the team assessed that Moscow’s rapid construction of these towers near the Yelabuga drone factories likely indicates the significance of…

Call for Papers: The University of Texas at Austin Announces the 2026 Bobby R. Inman Award for Student Scholarship on Intelligence

April 30, 2026

The Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project (ISP) at The University of Texas at Austin announces the 12th annual competition recognizing outstanding student research and writing on topics related to intelligence and national security. The winner of the Inman Award will receive a cash prize of $5,000, with two semifinalists each receiving a cash prize of $2,500. This competition is open…

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…

UT’s Global (Dis)Information Lab Report on Russian Filtration Sites Spotlighted on ODNI’s Public Daily Brief

December 5, 2022

A team of student researchers at The University of Texas at Austin’s Global (Dis)Information Lab (GDIL), led by ISP Senior Research Program Manager and GDIL Fellow Kim Nguyen, recently released an assessment on Russian filtration operations in their war with…

Language Analysis of Disinformation Reveals a Significant Use of Certain Rhetoric

October 23, 2022

Dr. Kiril Avramov, an ISP Fellow, and the team at the UT Global Disinformation Lab co-authored a report on “Identifying Disinformation Using Rhetorical Devices in Natural Language Models” with researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and North Carolina State University. Through…

ISP Now Accepting Applications for Texas Intelligence Academy 2023

October 4, 2022

The Intelligence Studies Project is now accepting applications to participate in Texas Intelligence Academy (TIA) 2023. The TIA is a competitive, all-expenses paid, intensive academic program for UT undergraduate students focused on intelligence and national security in Washington, D.C. TIA…

2022 “Bobby R. Inman Award” Winners Announced

September 1, 2022

The Intelligence Studies Project of the University of Texas at Austin is pleased to announce the winner and two semifinalists in the eighth-annual competition recognizing outstanding student research and writing on topics related to intelligence and national security.   The recipient…

ISP Welcomes Brumley Next Generation Fellows Liz Wong and David Johnson for the 2022-2023 Academic Year

August 29, 2022

Two Strauss Center for International Security and Law Brumley “Next Generation” Fellows will be conducting research in the coming academic year under the direction of ISP principals. Liz Wong Liz Wong is a second-year Master of Global Policy Studies student…

ISP-Sponsored Report on Election Security Released

July 11, 2022

Intelligence in Defense of Democracy, the final report of the LBJ School’s 2021-2022 Policy Research Project on foreign election interference, was recently published. Intelligence Studies Project Director Steve Slick led 13 UT master’s degree candidates in an extensive literature review,…

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