Clements Center for National Security

{{Short description|Research center at the University of Texas at Austin}}

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|formation = 2013

|purpose= Nonpartisan Research and Policy Center

|leader_title = Executive Director

|leader_name = Joseph Maguire

| key_people = Paul Edgar, Stephen Slick, Mark Lawrence, Robert M. Chesney, and William Inboden

|name = Clements Center for National Security

|website = https://www.clementscenter.org/

| named_after = Bill Clements

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The William P. Clements Jr. Center for National Security is a nonpartisan policy and research center at the University of Texas at Austin.{{Cite web|url=https://www.clementscenter.org/about|title=Who We Are – Clements Center for National Security|website=www.clementscenter.org|access-date=2016-05-24}}{{cite book|author=Timothy Andrews Sayle, Jeffrey A. Engel, Hal Brands, William Inboden|title=The Last Card: Inside George W. Bush's Decision to Surge in Iraq|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ODmUDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA396|date=15 September 2019|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=978-1-5017-1520-4|pages=396–}} The center is named after former Texas Governor and Deputy Secretary of Defense Bill Clements.{{Cite web|url=https://www.clementscenter.org/william-clements-jr|title=William P. Clements, Jr. – Clements Center for National Security|website=www.clementscenter.org|access-date=2016-05-24}} The goal of the Clements Center is to teach diplomatic and military history to undergraduates and graduate students, as well as support research in the topics of history, strategy, and national security policy.{{cite web|url=https://www.clementscenter.org/about|title=Who We Are}}