U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson addressed U.S. engagement in the Western Hemisphere in a speech on UT campus on Thursday, February 1, 2018. As The Wall Street Journal reported, Secretary Tillerson’s visit marked his one-year anniversary of public service in the State Department. The event, co-hosted by the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law and the Clements Center for National Security received local and national press coverage.

The Robert Strauss Center is excited to announce that Professors Rebecca Ingber (Boston) and Shirin Sinnar (Stanford) are the winners of the 2017 Mike Lewis Prize for National Security Law Scholarship.

Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar Joshua Eisenman has released a new volume, China Steps Out, co-edited with MIT’s Eric Heginbotham. The book compiles diverse analysis of China’s foreign policy strategy in the developing world. China Steps Out is relevant to policymakers around the world and Washington, DC, where Dr. Eisenman recently testified to the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission about concepts in the book.

In a recent op-ed written for The Diplomat, "Is a Better American Nuclear Arsenal Good for the Asia Pacific?" Brumley Fellow Harry Kim discusses the impact of American nuclear modernization on regional stability in the Asia-Pacific.