The Strauss Center congratulates Asia Policy Program Director Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens for her new role as the Editor in Chief for the Texas National Security Review. In her introduction, Dr. Greitens highlighted how she first became interested in national security and discussed her vision for the Texas National Security Review.
Texas National Security Review seeks to publish the best historical scholarship on questions that inform the dilemmas of the present, while being attuned to all the potential pitfalls of overly rigid historical analogizing, states Dr. Greitens. We seek to publish social science research that identifies theoretical and empirical regularities in the world, while asking our authors to rigorously interrogate whether and how those patterns apply to the specifics of the present.
Read Dr. Greitens full introduction here.
Strauss Center Director Adam Klein has been appointed to the congressional FISA Reform Commission by U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune. Klein brings to the Commission his experience as former Chairman of the United States Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, which oversees the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) and other national security authorities. The Commission is tasked...
Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Director of the Asia Policy Program and Editor of the Texas National Security Review, recently published “On War and Politics” in the fall edition of the Texas National Security Review. Utilizing a historical lens, Greitens emphasizes the “the need to integrate the use of military force with broader tools of strategy and statecraft in service of broader political goals.”...
Adam Klein, Director of the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, was quoted in an article in Dispatch on "FISA's Section 702 Has Lapsed. Now What?". Section 702's authority on surveilling non-Americans abroad lapsed for the first time on June 12. “The relative constitutional clarity that 702 provides should be seen as stabilizing and protective, and so for that...