Strauss Center for International Security and Law

Congrats to this year's winner of the Aerospace Policy Solutions, LLC Award in Space Policy: Perry Lum! Thank you to the team at APS for your continued generosity in supporting such fantastic UT Austin students. Dr. Ruth Stilwell, FRAeS #StraussSpace #WhatStartsHere ?????

?? TODAY ?? Strauss hosts Alex Zerden, founder of Capitol Peak Strategies, for a fireside chat with Director Adam Klein on "Guns, Drugs, and Cash: Financial Warfare from Damascus to Pyongyang." ??: Wednesday, March 26 ?: 12:15-1:30 pm ???: SRH 3.122, LBJ School ??: https://lnkd.in/gsXZXJEb

?? NEXT WEEK ?? "Drones Over America! Defending the U.S. Homeland from Aerial Threats" panel discussion moderated by Strauss Director Adam Klein. ??: Tuesday, April 1 ?: 12:15-1:30 pm ???: SRH 3.B10, LBJ School ??: https://lnkd.in/gQ7VU5zn

? TOMORROW ? Strauss hosts Alex Zerden, founder of Capitol Peak Strategies, for a fireside chat with Director Adam Klein on "Guns, Drugs, and Cash: Financial Warfare from Damascus to Pyongyang." ??: Wednesday, March 26 ?: 12:15-1:30 pm ???: SRH 3.122, LBJ School ??: https://lnkd.in/gsXZXJEb

Welcome back to the Forty Acres, Longhorns! ??

?? Due Sunday! ?? Be sure to submit your application for the Texas Cybersecurity Clinic's Fall 2025 - Spring 2026 cohort before this weekend's March 23rd deadline! https://bit.ly/CyberClinic #StraussCyber

As we wrap up this year's Space Traffic Management Conference "From the Ground Up and Back" we extend our immense gratitude to the planning committee and sponsors who made it all happen. Thank you, team! See y'all on the Forty Acres again next year! ????? #StraussSpace

And that’s a wrap! ?? Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of helping execute the The University of Texas at Austin’s and The LBJ School of Public Affairs’ first ever Central Asia Policy Symposium (CAPS)! Six months of hard work alongside my amazing team of graduate student colleagues brought incredible experts directly from Washington, D.C. and abroad to the Forty Acres to give our university’s graduate and undergraduate students interested in foreign policy a comprehensive overview of Central Asian countries’ perspectives and priorities in the realms of security, governance, and human rights. Before all of the emails, room bookings, grant writing sessions, and brainstorming meetings, this initiative started out with one shared belief among the graduate student organizing team: Central Asia matters. And young Americans aspiring to have a career in the foreign policy realm must be better informed about this rapidly changing and increasingly important part of the world. Thus, I want to extend my sincere gratitude to the incredible experts who joined us at the LBJ School for two days of panels, presentations, and insightful Q/A sessions; the faculty members who participated in CAPS as moderators for the Security, Governance, and Human Rights Tracks; and CAPS’ institutional sponsors — Clements Center for National Security, Strauss Center for International Security and Law’s Asia Policy Program, UT Austin Center for European Studies The University of Texas at Austin — Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies and TexasGlobal— for their support! Finally, to the rest of the CAPS Organizing Team: thank you for all of your hard work! This wouldn’t have come to fruition without you. After speaking with countless students and faculty about how much they learned from CAPS, I am confident that this symposium directly contributed to students’ curiosity and understanding of this unique region of the world!

A good conference is made by attendees who are thoughtful, involved, and care deeply about the subject matter. This month's STM Conference "From the Ground Up and Back" had that in spades. Thanks to all who participated this year! #StraussSpace

The latest Strauss Center for International Security and Law Asylum Processing report is out. In it, Stephanie Leutert and I chronicle: 1) The cessation of asylum along the US southern border since Jan. 20 2) The effect these recent policy changes are having on asylum seekers in border cities. For more, follow the link here: https://lnkd.in/evzgMSss