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Freedom’s Price: Vladimir Kara-Murza Punished for Criticizing Russia’s War in Ukraine
Message from the Director We draw your attention to a Moscow court’s recent sentencing of Russian politician, journalist and historian Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in a penal colony for an earlier treason conviction for his public criticism of Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine. Many of you will recall Kara-Murza’s visit to UT-Austin in…
UT’s Global Disinformation Lab (GDIL) Receives Army Cyber Institute Grant from the US Military Academy at West Point
The Strauss Center is pleased to report that the “Cyber Pacific” team of the University of Texas at Austin’s Global Disinformation Lab (GDIL) has received a grant of $250,000 from the Army Cyber Institute (ACI) of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Led by Strauss Distinguished Scholar Dr. Michael Mosser, Executive Director of GDIL…
Call for Papers: 2023 “Bobby R. Inman Award” for Student Scholarship on Intelligence
The Intelligence Studies Project of The University of Texas at Austin announces the 8th annual competition recognizing outstanding student research and writing on topics related to intelligence and national security. The winner of the “Inman Award” will receive a cash prize of $5,000, with two semifinalists each receiving a cash prize of $2,500. This competition is open to unpublished work…
Pope and Neller Discuss the Marine Corps and Security in the Indo-Pacific
Intelligence Studies Project Senior Fellow Paul Pope and Strauss Distinguished Senior Fellow and Marine Corps Gen. (Ret.) Robert Neller recently, on the Horns of Dilemma Podcast, a joint venture co-sponsored by the Strauss and Clements Centers, expressed their thoughts around Marine Corps structures and recent doctrine changes which intends “to create a force ready to…
Rasmussen Discusses Foreign Terrorism in the U.S.
Strauss Center Senior National Security Fellow and former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), Nicholas Rasmussen, made several comments for an article titled “Major Foreign Terror Attack on US ‘Almost Inconceivable’ Right Now” for the New Delhi Times. “We have achieved what I would call a suppressive effect on the ability of groups like…
CAMPI Director Discusses Asylum Processing Report
Stephanie Leutert, Director of the Central America and Mexico Policy Initiative, spoke to The Monitor about asylum processing and the newest report that was released in February. “So in five years there’s four different types of processing procedure which is really incredible. That’s unprecedented because before five years that was just the way it was….
The University of Texas at Austin, Naval War College, Colorado School of Mines Selected by DoD as One of Six Teams for Social Science Research
U.S. Naval War College, The University of Texas at Austin, and Colorado School of Mines have been selected by the U.S. Department of Defense to research critical minerals, battery technology, and reducing dependence on hostile suppliers in the clean energy supply chain. Principal investigators from each institution include Professor Joshua Busby, LBJ School of Public…
Leutert Quoted in LA Times on Migrants Applying for Asylum
Stephanie Leutert, Director of the Central America and Mexico Policy Initiative, was quoted in the LA Times on migrants seeking asylum in the United States. “To make that even clearer, you may have fled thousands of miles, but those last steps — at a paved port of entry, on desert dirt, or on the Rio…
SSSS Lead Publishes Article on Space Debris Disposal
Moriba Jah, lead for the Space, Security, and Safety Program at the Strauss Center for International Security and Law and associate professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin, provided a fascinating perspective regarding Space Sustainability in his article titled “We Have Landfills in Space, but We Don’t Have…
CAMPI Releases February 2023 Asylum Processing at the U.S.-Mexico Border Report
The Central America and Mexico Policy Initiative (CAMPI), led by our CAMPI Director Stephanie Leutert and CAMPI Fellow Caitlyn Yates, have released the quarterly report on Asylum Processing at the U.S.-Mexico Border. This February 2023 update includes numbers from both original asylum waitlists and Title 42 exception waitlists. In many cities, Title 42 exception waitlists have replaced the asylum waitlists…
