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.
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?
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 .
Finding the Right Mix: Disaster Diplomacy, National Security, and International Cooperation
With the generous support of the Smith Richardson Foundation, IFPA is undertaking a project to provide U.S. policy makers with enhanced tools for planning, managing, and concluding a major disaster operation effectively and in a manner that explicitly advances U.S. strategic objectives.
In Times of Crisis: Global and Local Civil-Military Disaster Relief Cooperation in the United States and Japan
With support from the Japan Foundation’s Center for Global Partnership (CGP), IFPAis leading this collaborative effort by U.S. and Japanese specialists to conduct research and foster dialogue among civilian and military groups for the purposes of improving their civil-military communication in domestic and international crises. Joining IFPA in this project is the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) at Osaka University and Japan’s National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS).
Identifying Trends in Japan-DPRK Relations
and Implications for U.S. Policy
The Smith-Richardson Foundation has recently funded this project that will
examine the determining factors behind Japan's evolving North Korea policy
and how they will affect America's strategic and tactical approaches to the
DPRK.
Strengthening Forces for Democratization
This new project is part of IFPA's ongoing work on democratization. The project's focus is democratic transformation in the Middle East and Central Asia.
North American Homeland Security and Defense:
Enhancing U.S Joint Planning and Cooperation with
IFPA recently received a grant from the Richard
Lounsbery Foundation in
The Post-ABM Treaty Missile Defense and Space Relationship Project
As part of the IFPA missile defense program, the Independent Working Group on Post-ABM Treaty Missile Defense and the Space Relationship project is exploring missile defense architectures that include space-based systems. IFPA will produce an independent working group report in 2005 that will provide an assessment of missile defense requirements beyond the deployment currently underway, together with opportunities to benefit from existing and new technologies including Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)-legacy systems.
Building on the Trilateral Coordination
and Oversight Group (TCOG): Exploring the Prospects for Expanding the
TCOG Process as a Key U.S.-South Korea and U.S.-Japan Alliance Management
Tool
In September 2003, the Institute for Foreign Policy
Analysis (IFPA), in collaboration with leading policy research institutions
in Japan and South Korea, recently received a generous grant from the Japan
Foundation’s Center for Global Partnership (CGP) to begin work on a
unique, two-year policy research project designed to strengthen the U.S.-Japan
and U.S.-South Korea relationships and enhance regional stability by improving
the tools for alliance management.
Download the PDF of the interim report
Planning for Long-term U.S. Military Engagement
in Central Asia
In September 2002, the Smith Richardson Foundation funded a study proposed by IFPA to examine the military and operational requirements that can be anticipated to drive U.S. security planning for operations in Central Asia and adjacent regions over the next ten to twenty years.
Homeland Defense and Consequence Management
As the U.S. home territory becomes increasingly vulnerable to weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and other unconventional threats such as cyberterrorism, it, like its principal NATO allies and its key allies in the Asia-Pacific region, Japan, and the Republic of Korea, can no longer be considered a sanctuary in a dangerous world.
This study, completed in 2001, examined ways to enhance nuclear stability on the subcontinent.
This ongoing, in-depth study of U.S., Allied, and coalition-partner security perspectives and policies focuses on defense and security trends in South Asia, Europe, the Persian Gulf, and the Asia-Pacific region.
IFPA and the Kokkalis Foundation (Athens, Greece) are collaborating on a project to examine the principal strategic-military challenges in this uncertain and evolving region and to assess their implications for the bilateral U.S.-Greek relationship and broader Alliance relations.
Funded by a research grant from the Kokkalis Foundation of Athens, Greece, this study was launched to explore ways that states in Southeastern Europe can strengthen their links with Euro-Atlantic institutions and especially with NATO.
IFPA continues to assess the post-Cold War security environment and the contribution of American military posture to global security.
Recognizing that over the next decade or so the United States and its allies will face a proliferation of precision weapons and missiles in the hands of adversaries, IFPA has undertaken several projects to assess U.S. and Allied missile defense and counterproliferation policy and technology.
IFPA has conducted two projects that examine ways for communities threatened by environmental degradation or disaster to deal with these challenges: a November 2000 U.S.-GCC environmental conference and a multi-year study of the complex and diverse relationships between environmental threats and issues of ethnicity, ethnic tension, and potential ethnic conflict.
Launched in 1994, this project explorse post-Cold War instructional approaches in professional military educational institutions, particularly with regard to the security ramifications of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) proliferation and deterrence.
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