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The Clements Center’s Defense Technology Fellows Program welcomes its first cohort this fall, connecting students in engineering, science and mathematics to defense companies, military commands and research labs that surround the UT campus. This fall, the Clements Center for National Security welcomes the inaugural class of its Defense Technology Fellows Program, a yearlong undergraduate fellowship…

In this new Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Military History article, Dr. Jennifer Yip (Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore; former Clements Center and Asia Policy Program Postdoctoral Fellow) traces how military supply has evolved from armies living off the land to industrial-era logistics networks spanning the globe.

UT Austin is making one of its largest investments in national security education in recent years — welcoming more than 20 new faculty and launching a Master of National Security and a Bachelor of Arts in Strategy and Statecraft. The expansion draws talent from Harvard, the CIA, RAND, and the U.S. Army, cementing the University’s…

Tom Luce, a Dallas attorney and one of Texas’s most influential civic leaders, passed away over the weekend. Luce was a former Clements Center Board member, and his work spanned public education reform, state government, and national policy. He advised Ross Perot Sr. for decades, served as chief of staff of the Texas Select Committee…

The Clements Center held its 12th annual Summer Seminar in History and Statecraft from July 12 to 17 in Beaver Creek, Colorado, bringing advanced doctoral students together for a week of seminars, discussion, and networking with leading scholars and policymakers. This year’s highly selective program comprised 21 students from universities in the U.S. and abroad,…

Robert D. Kaplan, Distinguished Senior Lecturer, The School of Civic Leadership, reviews two new books on great-power competition in The Wall Street Journal: Brendan Simms’s “The Return of the Great Powers” and Odd Arne Westad’s “The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict, and Warnings From History.”

The University of Texas at Austin has opened applications for the 2027–28 Harrington Faculty Fellows Program and dedicated this year’s competition to national security. The selected fellows will spend the academic year in residence at UT Austin, affiliated with the Clements Center for National Security and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law.  The Harrington Faculty Fellows Program, coordinated by the…

Nine students spent two weeks in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia examining the history, geopolitics, and security challenges of a region at the front edge of NATO’s collective defense. The Clements Center for National Security concluded its Summer Beyond Borders program this June, bringing nine students to Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia for two weeks of lectures,…

For four weeks, UT Austin students studied the transatlantic alliance in the lecture halls, the war rooms, and on the beaches of Normandy. From a seminar room at King’s College London to the chalk tunnels beneath Dover Castle and the bluff above Omaha Beach, 20 UT Austin students spent four weeks this spring tracing the…

UT Austin students spent four weeks in South Korea and Japan tracing the history, alliances, and security challenges that define America’s role in the Indo-Pacific. From the Asan Institute in Seoul to the cliffs of Okinawa and the Joint Security Area at Panmunjom, UT Austin students spent four weeks this spring studying the role of…