This week, Strauss Center Scholar William Inboden is the guest editor for the National Intelligence Council’s “Global Trends 2030” blog. The theme to be discussed this week is “American decline” and Inboden will be featuring blog posts by many Strauss Center Scholars during the week. Already featured is Strauss Center Director Francis J. Gavin’s post “Re-Thinking World Power, from Shanghai to Silicon Valley” where he discusses the changes in how we assess state power and how that applies to the future of the United States. Posts from Celeste Gventer, Kate Weaver, Robert Hutchings, Jeremi Suri and several LBJ School students are also planned.

Strauss Distinguished Scholar William Inboden recently returned from a trip to China with many different impressions of its state of affairs. He discusses six of them in a post for the Foreign Policy blog Shadow Government; Rising Power, Security Threat, Economic Dynamo, Fragile Kleptocracy, Reforming Autocracy, and Insecure Bully.

Distinguished Scholar Alan Kuperman appeared on Good Day Austin, FOX 7 TV, on June 20, 2012 to discuss the recent events in Syria.

Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs Jeremi Suri wrote for CNN last week on public universities.