Our Big Texas Launch Party: UT and WOTR Join Forces

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🗓️ 14 August 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

You've read a bit about our alliance with the Texas National Security Network, brought to you by the University of Texas. Now you get to be a guest at our launch party in DC, where we ate Blue Bell ice cream, drank Shiner Bock (and scotch, of course), and held an awesome panel with the hosts of Bombshell -- Radha Iyengar, Loren DeJonge Schulman, and Erin Simpson -- alongside Jim Goldgeier of American University's School of International Service as well as William Inboden and Paul Miller of the Clements Center at the University of Texas. Ryan Evans tried to keep this rowdy crew in line as they talked about the push and pull between academics and policymakers.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the War on the Rocks podcast on strategy, Defense, and Foreign Affairs.
0:13.0	My name's Ryan Evans, I'm the Editor-in-Chief of Warren the Rocks.
0:16.1	In the intro to our last episode on the National Security Strategy of the United States,
0:20.3	I mentioned our partnership with the Texas National Security Network at the University of Texas.
0:25.0	And you may have already read a little bit about this at Warren the Rocks and seen our new partnership logo at the top of the site.
0:30.0	But let me tell you a bit about it.
0:32.0	When Admiral Bill McRabin, the former commander of Special Operations Command, became the Chancellor of the University of Texas a couple years back,
0:38.0	he announced eight quantum leaps for the UT system, one of which was the establishment of the Texas National Security
0:44.4	Network. In his words, this aims to make the University of Texas system the leading
0:49.4	university system in the world for teaching and research on national security.
0:53.4	This involves a huge and deliberate investment into things like conferences, new research,
0:57.4	new faculty, scholarships.
0:59.4	And a big part of this is also their partnership with us, War on the Rocks, and our joint creation of a new journal called the Texas National Security Review, which will be rigorous from an academic perspective, while being useful and accessible to the policymaker and national security practitioner, in other words, bridging the gap between these two communities.
1:16.0	In this episode, you get to hear a live recording we did at the Launch Party for our alliance with the University of Texas here in Washington.
1:22.0	The panel features the bombshell crew that you know. our Alliance with the University of Texas here in Washington.
1:23.1	The panel features the bombshell crew that you know and love, Aaron Simpson, Lauren Schulman,
1:26.8	and Raday Yengar, alongside Jim Gold Guy, the outgoing dean of American University School of International
1:31.9	Service, as well as Will Imboden and Paul Miller,
1:35.0	respectively the Director and Assistant Director of the Clement Center on Strategy and State Craft at UT.
1:40.0	Enjoy the show. The show. At the end of the show. at Ryan the first time actually at a Indian restaurant in London. He was a
1:57.0	grad student at KCL and I was a relatively new professor at UT and over the course of the dinner we're kind of
2:04.6	talking about some ideas we had and he was telling me about this new website he
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