ISP INTELLIGENCE STUDIES PROJECT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN FIFTH ANNUAL TEXAS NATIONAL SECURITY FORUM THE RETURN OF GREAT POWER COMPETITION Robert Chesney, Director of the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law Bobby Chesney is the Director of the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law and the Charles I. Francis Professor in Law at the University of Texas School of Law. He also serves as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the School of Law. Professor Chesney’s scholarship concerns the legal architecture that regulates the U.S. government’s national security policies, institutions and activities, with a particular emphasis on the disruptive impact of technological and strategic change over time. He teaches an array of courses including National Security Law, Constitutional Law, and the History of U.S. Counterterrorism Law and Policy (1970 to present). He is a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution, a member of the American Law Institute, and a senior editor for the Journal of National Security Law & Policy. He previously served as a member of the Director of National Intelligence’s Advance Technology Board, and as an associate member of the Intelligence Science Board. In 2009, he served as an advisor to the President’s Detention Policy Task Force, which was charged with developing long-term policy options in relation to the capture, detention, trial, or other disposition of persons in the context of combat and counterterrorism operations. He is graduated magna cum laude from both Harvard Law School and Texas Christian University. William Inboden, Executive Director of the Clements Center for National Security William Inboden is Executive Director and William Powers, Jr. Chair at the William P. Clements, Jr. Center for National Security at the University of Texas-Austin. He also serves as Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, Distinguished Scholar at the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and Editor-in-Chief of the Texas National Security Review. Inboden’s other current roles include Associate with the National Intelligence Council, Member of the CIA Director’s Historical Review Panel, and Non-Resident Fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Previously he served as Senior Director for Strategic Planning on the National Security Council at the White House, where he worked on a range of foreign policy issues including the National Security Strategy, strategic forecasting, democracy and governance, contingency planning, counter-radicalization, and multilateral institutions and initiatives. Inboden also worked at the Department of State as a Member of the Policy Planning Staff and a Special Advisor in the Office of International Religious Freedom. He has also served as Sr. Vice President of the Legatum Institute, and as a Civitas Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations as well as a contributing editor to Foreign Policy magazine, and his commentary has appeared in numerous outlets. He has lectured widely in academic and policy settings, testified before the U.S. House Armed Services Committee, and received numerous research and professional development fellowships. He is the author of Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945-1960: The Soul of Containment (Cambridge University Press). Professor Inboden has received multiple teaching awards. His current research includes a book project on the Reagan Administration’s national security strategy and policy. Inboden received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in history from Yale University, and his A.B. in history from Stanford University. PANEL ONE: WORLD ORDER Antony Blinken, Former Deputy Secretary of State Tony is Co-founder and Managing Partner of WestExec Advisors. Tony has held senior foreign policy positions in two administrations – including Deputy Secretary of State in the Obama Administration, the nation’s number two diplomat. Tony helped to lead diplomacy in the fight against ISIL, the rebalance to Asia, and the global refugee crisis, while building bridges to the innovation community. Before that, Tony served as Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama. He chaired the Deputies Committee, the administration’s principal forum for deliberating foreign policy. During the first Obama term, he was National Security Advisor to Vice President Biden. From 2002 to 2008, Tony served as Democratic Staff Director for the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. From 1994 to 2001, he was a member of President Clinton’s National Security Council staff. Tony is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and a global affairs analyst for CNN. He is the author of Ally Versus Ally: America, Europe and the Siberian Pipeline Crisis. He also serves as a managing director of the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and a distinguished scholar at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Tony received a French Baccalaureate degree in Paris. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Law School. Eric Edelman, Former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Ambassador Eric S. Edelman retired as a Career Minister from the U.S. Foreign Service on May 1, 2009. He is currently Counselor at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and the Roger Hertog Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He was the Miller Center for Public Policy’s James R. Schlesinger Professor for 2016 at the University of Virginia and is currently a non-resident fellow there. From 2009-2013 he was a senior associate of the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the United States Institute of Peace. In 2010 he served on the Congress’s Independent Panel to review the Quadrennial Defense Review and in 2013-2014 he served on the National Defense Panel. From 2017-2018 he chaired the National Defense Strategy Commission appointed by Congress to review the new National Defense Strategy. Edelman has served in senior positions at the Departments of State and Defense as well as the White House where he led organizations providing analysis, strategy, policy development, security services, trade advocacy, public outreach, citizen services and congressional relations. As the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (August 2005-January 2009) he oversaw strategy development as DoD’s senior policy official with global responsibility for the nation’s top defense priorities. He served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republics of Finland and Turkey in the Clinton and Bush Administrations and was Principal Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs. In other assignments he has been Chief of Staff to Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, special assistant to Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Robert Kimmitt and special assistant to Secretary of State George Shultz. He also had assignments in the State Department Operations Center, Prague, Moscow, and Tel Aviv, where he was a member of the U.S. Middle East Delegation to the West Bank/Gaza Autonomy Talks. He is a recipient of the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, the Presidential Distinguished Service Award and several Department of State Superior Honor Awards. He has been awarded the Order of the White Rose by the government of Finland and the Legion d’Honneur by the French government. He received a B.A. in History and Government from Cornell University (‘72) and a Ph.D. in U.S. Diplomatic History from Yale University (‘81). Kristen Silverberg, Former Ambassador to the European Union Ambassador Kristen Silverberg is a Managing Director at the Institute of International Finance. She served in the George W. Bush Administration as U.S. Ambassador to the European Union from 2008 to 2009 and as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 2005 to 2008. Prior to her time at the State Department, she held a number of senior positions at the White House, including Deputy Assistant to the President and Advisor to the Chief of Staff. She served in 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq for which she received the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service. Ambassador Silverberg formerly practiced law at Williams and Connolly, LLP in Washington, DC and served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Judge David Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals. She attended Harvard College and the University of Texas School of Law, where she graduated with High Honors. Ambassador Silverberg serves on the Board of Directors of the CDC Foundation, the Board of Directors of the International Republican Institute, the Board of Directors of Vorbeck Materials, the Advisory Board of Beacon Global Strategies, the Advisory Board of the Texas National Security Review, and was recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader. Moderator: Lorinc Redei, Lecturer and Graduate Adviser, Master of Global Policy Studies at the LBJ School of Public Affairs Lorinc Redei joined the LBJ School as a full-time lecturer in 2013, and he now also serves as the graduate adviser for its Global Policy Studies Program. He has previous teaching experience at Southwestern University, and he has also worked in the policy world. From 2005 to 2008 and during the spring of 2011, he served as a press officer in the European Parliament, the directly elected legislature of the European Union. He managed relations with the press corps on the Parliament’s activities in the realm of foreign affairs, especially the work of its Foreign Affairs Committee. Dr. Redei’s research takes advantage of these experiences. He writes about European politics, the European Union—especially its foreign and security policy—and in parliamentary diplomacy.