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AIDS Drugs for All: Social Movements and Market Transformations
Strauss Center Distinguished Scholars Dr. Joshua Busby and Dr. Ethan Kapstein recently published a new book, AIDS Drugs for All: Social Movements and Market Transformations (Cambridge University Press, September 2013). Click here for more information on the book, found on the publisher’s website.
Strauss Scholars in UT-Wide Conferences
Strauss Center Leadership and Distinguished Scholars will be participating in two UT-wide conferences in the coming weeks. To begin with, Dr. William Inboden of the William P. Clements Center for History, Strategy & Statecraft will be leading a conference this Friday-Saturday focusing on “Diplomacy, Alliances and War: Anglo-American Perspectives on History and Strategy in the…
Inboden on North American Energy Partnerships
Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar and Clements Center Executive Director Dr. William Inboden convened a group of Republican former senior policymakers for a forumfeatured in Foreign Policy earlier this month entitled The 12-Step Plan: A dozen bold suggestions for the Obama Administration to recover its mojo”fast. The article is a collaboration between the regular contributors of…
Explaining Government Repression in Africa
In CCAPS Research Brief No. 19, Idean Salehyan and Cullen Hendrix examine how the characteristics of a social conflict event and the nature of the regime interact to determine repressive outcomes. Using the Social Conflict in Africa Database (SCAD), they find that events that are more threatening to the central government are more likely to…
Strauss Center Director Wins Book Award
Strauss Center Director Dr. Francis Gavin was honored Thursday night as the recipient of a Hamilton Book Award. Gavin won the award for his second book, Nuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in America’s Atomic Age (Cornell University Press, 2012). Fellow-LBJ School of Public Affairs professor Dr. James Galbraith also won an award for his book,…
Strauss Center to Take Center Stage During SXSW Interactive 2014, Enriching Public Understanding of NSA Issues
The Strauss Center will be taking center stage to discuss issues stemming from the NSA controversy during the South-by-Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin in March 2014, in the latest development stemming from the Center’s new Intelligence Studies Project. After a highly-competitive public voting process involving many thousands of proposals, the Strauss Center’s proposal to sponsor…
Acting Assoc. Director Discusses New Climate Dashboard Mapping Tool
The Climate Change and African Political Stability (CCAPS) program and Development Gateway recently launched a dashboard enabling users to analyze where and how climate-related events could disrupt security and development in Africa. In this post on The First Tranche blog, Strauss Center Acting Associate Director Ashley Moran demonstrates how users can operate this innovative dashboard tool…
Incoming Director Chesney Interviewed by Baines Report
The Baines Report, the LBJ School of Public Affairs’ official student opinion and news publication, re-launched this past week with a podcast interview with incoming Strauss Center Director Professor Bobby Chesney. You can listen to the interview in its entirety below, or on their website.
ACLED Releases October 2013 Conflict Trends Report
The October 2013 issue of ACLED’s Conflict Trends includes analysis of the ongoing conflict in the Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of the Congo, the violence and political unrest continuing in Egypt, Al-Shabaab activity in Kenya, and Sudanese opposition protests.
