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.
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...
After Congress allowed Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to expire over the weekend, Strauss Center Director Adam Klein provided his perspective to The Christian Science Monitor in their article "Congress lets part of spy law lapse. What's next for counterterrorism efforts?" FISA Section 702 grants the U.S. government the ability to surveil non-U.S. persons abroad without...
Strauss Center Director Adam Klein was interviewed for The Christian Science Monitor on "Why the surveillance powers in FISA roil Congress – across party lines," which discusses the national security and privacy issues surrounding Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which is set to expire at the end of April. “Imagine that, today, an FBI agent is...