Nuclear Matters in North Korea
Building a Multilateral Response for Future Stability in Northeast Asia
The six-part talks have a mixed track record with regard to achieving their goal of verifiable North Korean denuclearization, but thet remain the most useful tool available for addressing the challenge. Nuclear Matters in North Korea is the product of a three-year multilateral research project that seeks, among other things, to bridge differences between the nations with regard to six-party capacity building. More...

The 37th IFPA-Fletcher Conference on National Security Strategy and Policy
Admiral Michael Mullen, USN, Chief of Naval Operations and the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gave the opening address on the morning of September 26th at the 37th IFPA-Fletcher Navy Conference on a New Maritime Strategy for the 21st Century. The conference took place at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C., on September 26-27, 2007. More...

Disaster Relief Project Report
In Times of Crisis: Global and Local Civil-Military Disaster Relief Coordination in the United States and Japan
IFPA completed this interim report as part of an ongoing two-year study on civil-military disaster-relief coordination in the United States and Japan. About the project...

New Study
The Space & Missile Defense Project
Although the United States is the dominant player in space, a growing number of countries are accessing space for both military and commercial purposes, challenging U.S. preeminence. This year-long study will undertake a net assessment of space and U.S. national security, including space-based defenses, and, based on the assessment, produce a report setting forth the key elements of a space strategy. More...

Hudson Institute - New Projects
The Democracy in Latin America Seminar Series
Challenges of Radical Populism

During the past year the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IFPA) in association with the Hudson Institute has examined radical populism in Latin America in order to provide policy recommendations to leaders of government and civil society in the Hemisphere to help counter anti-democratic forces and authoritarianism. More...

Iran with Nuclear Weapons: Anticipating the Consequences for U.S. Security
Based on the assumption, unpalatable as it may seem, that a nuclear Iran is all but inevitable, this project focuses on three critically important questions: What are the geopolitical consequences of a nuclear Iran for the United States? What would a nuclear Iran mean for U.S. defense and deterrence requirements at the regional and global levels? And what, in particular, would the United States need to do, diplomatically and militarily, to reassure friends and allies, and to strengthen extended deterrence, in the face of a nuclear Iran? More...

IFPA Special Report
Radical Islamist Ideologies and the Long War: Implications for U.S. Strategic Planning and U.S. Central Command's Operations

IFPA completed this report as part of an ongoing study of radical Islam and its implications for the Long War against terrorism.
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Workshop Summary Report
Rethinking the War on Terror: Developing a Strategy to Counter Extremist Ideologies

IFPA completed and distributed this summary report on a workshop focused on assessing the ideological roots of Islamist extremism and on ways in which such ideologies can be more effectively countered. More...

New Project
The U.S.-Japan Alliance & the Future of Extended Deterrence

In the new setting since North Korea’s nuclear test, IFPA undertakes a fresh assessment of thinking in Japan and the United States about extended deterrence in Northeast Asia. More...

New Research Report & Workshop Summary
The Pandemic Influenza Challenge: Multilateral Perspectives on Preparedness, Response Planning, and Areas for Cooperation

IFPA announces the release of a new report on preparing for a possible pandemic influenza crisis, based in part on the results of an IFPA-led multilateral workshop held in Tokyo, Japan. More...
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Independent Working Group Report

Missile Defense, the Space Relationship, and the Twenty-first Century

This report provides an assessment of missile defense requirements beyond the limited ground-based system currently being deployed, together with opportunities to benefit from existing and new technological opportunities.  More specifically, it is intended to provide a greater understanding of proven technology options that should form the basis for deployment of an innovative missile defense that draws upon the legacy of technologies developed during the Strategic Defense Initiative program of the Reagan administration and the first Bush administration. More...

Wall Street Journal op-ed piece by Amb. Henry Cooper and Dr. Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr., published August 28, 2006

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