A Conversation with Ambassador Dennis Ross
On Wednesday, February 12, 2020, the Strauss Center and Clements Center hosted Ambassador Dennis Ross, William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute and former special assistant to President Barack Obama, for a discussion on his…
Read MoreChesney Discusses Potential Syrian Withdrawal Effects
In his recent post for Lawfare, Strauss Center Director and James Baker Professor in Law, Bobby Chesney, provides a critical response to the White House’s October 6th, 2019 statement announcing the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Northern…
Read MoreAnne Clary
Ms. Anne Clary is the lead of the Political Violence Targeting Women project and former Assistant Director at the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law. She is currently a PhD candidate in political…
Read MoreNew Data Confirms Political Violence Targeting Women is on the Rise
Women around the world are facing unprecedented levels of targeted political violence. According to new data on political violence targeting women collated by the Robert Strauss Center and Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), the…
Read MorePolitical Violence Events – Meet the Data Coders: Kaidy Li
In partnership with ACLED Data, The Strauss Center has begun a new project analyzing political violence events. Some of our UT Austin undergraduate student coders in the program have agreed to talk about their work…
Read MoreTransatlantic Dialogue on International Law and Armed Conflict (West Point)
On June 20-21, 2019, the Strauss Center, in conjunction with the Lieber Institute for Law and Land Warfare at West Point, the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, and South Texas College of Law…
Read MorePolitical Violence Events – Meet the Data Coders: Tatiana Guevara
In partnership with ACLED Data, The Strauss Center has begun a new project analyzing political violence events. Some of the UT Austin undergraduate student coders in the program have agreed to talk about their work…
Read MoreThe Syria Air Strikes: Towards a New Doctrine of “Humanitarian Reprisal”
On April 11, 2019, the Strauss Center, the Institute for Transnational Law, and Texas International Law Journal held a lecture on the different dimensions (law, ethics, politics) involved in justifying the use of force in…
Read MoreThe Longest War: American Failures in Afghanistan and the Prospects for Peace
On Monday, March 11, 2019, the Strauss Center was delighted to welcome Steve Coll, staff writer at The New Yorker and author, who presented a talk on “The Longest War: American Failures in Afghanistan and…
Read MorePolitical Violence in the Age of Trump
On Tuesday, February 5th, 2019, the Strauss Center welcomed Shirin Sinnar, Associate Professor of Law and the John A. Wilson Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School, for a talk titled “Political Violence in the Age…
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