The Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law is a nonpartisan, multidisciplinary global affairs research center at

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. The center is named for renowned lawyer and public servant Ambassador Robert S. Strauss. The Strauss Center was previously led by

Robert M. Chesney Robert M. "Bobby" Chesney (born June 23, 1971) is an American lawyer and the Dean of the University of Texas School of Law. He is the Charles I. Francis Professor in Law and was the associate dean for academic affairs before becoming the dean. Che ...

until 2022, when Adam Klein, former chairman of the United States Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, became director.

Purpose and activities

The Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law integrates expertise from across the

University of Texas The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 students as of fall 2 ...

, as well as from the private and public sectors, in pursuit of practical solutions to emerging international challenges. The center sponsors a wide array of research programs and educational initiatives.

Programs

The Strauss Center supports independent research conducted by graduate students on projects related to international relations and offers several in-house research programs. The research programs focus on

political instability Political decay is a political theory, originally described in 1965 by Samuel P. Huntington, which describes how chaos and disorder can arise from social modernization increasing more rapidly than political and institutional modernization. Huntin ...

international security ''International Security'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of international and national security. It was founded in 1976 and is edited by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University and publis ...

, and

political violence Political violence is violence which is perpetrated in order to achieve political goals. It can include violence which is used by a State (polity), state against other states (war), violence which is used by a state against civilians and non-st ...

Strauss Center events

The Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law hosts a variety of events on pressing international issues facing the United States and the rest of the world. These events bring together scholars, students, and practitioners to share expertise and debate ideas. The Strauss Center encourages free and open exchange of ideas and welcomes speakers representing a wide array of views to discuss critical issues impacting international security.

Leadership

Adam Klein
Director *

, Cybersecurity Program Lead and Dean of the School of Law *

Stephen Slick Stephen Brent Slick is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operations officer and United States National Security Council official. He is the inaugural director of the Intelligence Studies Project at the University of Texas at Austin, wh ...

, Intelligence Studies Project Director *

William Inboden William Charles Inboden III (born November 7, 1972) is an American academic, writer, and former White House staffer. Inboden is the executive director and William Powers, Jr. Chair of the Clements Center for National Security at the University of ...

, Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Executive Director of the Clements Center for National Security *Catherine Weaver, Associate Professor of Public Affairs *

Jeremi Suri Jeremi Suri is an American historian and the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. Life He graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's in history in 1994. He then obtaine ...

, The Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs

Distinguished Scholars

* David Adelman, Harry M. Reasoner Regents Chair in Law *

H.W. Brands Henry William Brands Jr. (born August 7, 1953) is an American historian. He holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his PhD in history in 1985. He has authored more than thirty books o ...

, Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History * Gregory W. Engle *

Francis Gavin Francis J. Gavin is an American historian currently serving as the Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor and Director of the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies i ...

, Frank Stanton Chair in Nuclear Policy * Derek Jinks, Marrs McLean Professor in Law *

Vijay Mahajan Vijay Mahajan is the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and the director of the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Contemporary Studies. Mahajan was the founder of the BASIX (India), BASIX Social Enterprise Group which is enga ...

, John P. Harbin Centennial Chair in Business * Michael Webber, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering *

Moriba Jah Moriba Kemessia Jah CorrFRSE (born 1971) is an American space scientist and aerospace engineer who describes himself as a "space environmentalist". Jah is adamant finding solution to the accumulating garbage in space. He specializes in orbit de ...

, Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics; Director of Computational Astronautical Sciences and Technologies, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences

External links

Robert Strauss Center

References

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