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On September 12-13, the Asia Policy Program hosted its second China & National Security Workshop for early-career national security and foreign policy professionals in Washington, D.C. at the University of Texas System’s Archer Center. The program began with an evening dinner and guest speaker. Friday featured a number of sessions…

In this episode, TNSR publisher Ryan Evans spoke with the journal’s new editor-in-chief, Prof. Sheena Chestnut Greitens, an award-winning scholar and associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs. They spoke about why she became a scholar, her research, the intellectual challenges of the competition with…

The Texas National Security Review, a joint partnership between War on the Rocks and the University of Texas, is pleased to announce that Sheena Chestnut Greitens, PhD, will become its new editor-in-chief, succeeding Will Inboden, PhD. Greitens, an award-winning scholar and associate professor at UT Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs, brings a wealth of expertise and…

In a new piece for the Carnegie Endowment’s Emissary Blog, Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens offers commentary on South Korea’s new holiday: North Korean Defectors’ Day. She explains why Seoul began the commemoration and argues that the Yoon government should use this moment to advance policy toward the North Korea diaspora….

On this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Marshall Kosloff talks with Ambassador Robert Blackwill and Richard Fontaine about their new book, “Lost Decade: The U.S. Pivot to Asia and the Rise of Chinese Power.” Listen to the podcast here.

For the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests, Senior Research Fellow Rowena He shared her reflections with Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. The piece includes her recollections of Spring 1989 and the lasting impact it’s had on her. “We took to the streets not because of hatred and…

In a new special issue article for Global Policy, Distinguished Fellow Rana Siu Inboden writes about “China, power and the United Nations Special Procedures: Emerging threats to the “crown jewels” of the international human rights system”. “While there are other parts of the human rights regime where Beijing is able…

On this episode of This Is Democracy, Clements Center Faculty Fellow Jeremi Suri and his co-host Zachary Suri are joined by Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens to discuss the changing political landscape in China and how that affects their relationship to the United States and other world leaders. Listen here.

In “The Failures of Russian Aerospace Forces in the Russia-Ukraine War and the Future of Air Power,” Jaganath Sankaran investigates the reasons behind the failures of the Russian Aerospace Forces to acquire air superiority over Ukraine in the early stages of the 2022 war. He offers three causal explanations: (1). Russian military…

The Clements-Strauss Asia Policy Program hosted Xiaobing Li, professor of history and the Don Betz endowed chair in international studies at the University of Central Oklahoma, for a book talk on China’s New Navy: The Evolution of PLAN from the People’s Revolution to a 21st Century Cold War. You can now…