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Strauss Center Launches New Publication Series

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The Strauss Center’s Climate Change and African Political Stability program has initiated a new Working Paper Series, publishing full-length working papers on research underway in the program.  The publication series aims to convey ongoing program research regularly to the policy and research communities.

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No Need to Ban the Bomb

Op-Eds | Published March 09, 2010 | View Source

In a March 9, 2010 opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times,  Strauss Center Director Frank Gavin contends that the threat of nuclear proliferation has been overstated.  While there is cause for concern, he says, many common claims leading to worry are open to scrutiny.

Strauss Center to Become New Home for the Next Generation Project: U.S. Global Policy and the Future of International Institutions

News | Published November 04, 2009

AUSTIN, TX — The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law announced today that it will become the new base of operations for the Next Generation Project: U. S. Global Policy and the Future of International Institutions, an ambitious, nonpartisan, multiyear initiative started by The American Assembly at Columbia University.

Strauss Center awarded $7.6 million Department of Defense grant

Program will study the effects of climate change on political stability in Africa

News | Published October 19, 2009

AUSTIN, TX — The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law has been awarded a $7.6 million grant by the U. S. Department of Defense.  The grant is the largest single award dedicated to social science research The University of Texas at Austin has received.

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