Research Projects

New Strategic Dynamics in the Arctic Region: Implications for National Security and International Collaboration

This project explores and assesses trends that together could transform the Arctic from a relative strategic backwater to a strategic crossroads of global importance.

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The Democracy in Latin America Seminar Series: Challenges of Radical Populism

In association with the Hudson Institute, IFPA 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.

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Finding the Right Mix: Disaster Diplomacy, National Security, and International Cooperation

IFPA undertook this project, completed in 2009, 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.

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Publications

Finding the Right Mix: Disaster Diplomacy, National Security, and International Cooperation

By Charles M. Perry, with Marina Travayiakis, Bobby Andersen, and Yaron Eisenberg, 2009, 152 pp

Description

This study focuses on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HA/DR). It explores ways to make civil-military cooperation more effective in supporting a whole-of-government strategy for addressing twenty-first century threats. It is designed to assist those responsible for the management of large-scale HA/DR efforts achieve a greater unity of effort and division of labor among the diverse civilian and military, national and international, and public and private sector entities to execute such operations. It identifies critical capabilities and key operational challenges; reviews existing and proposed cooperative mechanisms to facilitate disaster relief planning, training, and implementation; and examines several recent cases of disaster response for lessons learned.

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37th IFPA-Fletcher Conference on National Security Strategy and Policy: A New Maritime Strategy for 21st-Century National Security

Final conference report, 2007

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36th Annual IFPA-Fletcher Conference on National Security and Policy: Implementing the New Triad: Nuclear and Non-Nuclear Forces in 21st-Century Deterrence

Final conference report, 2005, 122 pp

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The Mexican-U.S. Partnership: Enhancing Our Common Security

Workshop report 2005, 35 pp

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The Canada-U.S. Partnership: Enhancing Our Common Security

Workshop report 2005, 35 pp

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Nuclear Proliferation and the Future of U.S. Defense and Deterrence Planning

ByJacquelyn K. Davis and Charles M. Perry, 2005

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Conferences & Workshops

Terrorists, Drug Traffickers, and Gangs in Latin America: Undermining Democracy

June 9, 2010, Washinton, D.C.

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Challenges to Democracy in Latin America: The Case of Venezuela

December 3, 2009, Washington, D.C.

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Populist Threats to Democracy in Central America

September 22, 2009, Washington, D.C.

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Emerging Threats and Homeland/National Security: The Role of Missile Defense

Independent Working Group roundtable

June 23, 2009, Washington, D.C.

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Bolivia: A Country Divided

April 1, 2009, Washington, D.C. In association with the Hudson Institute.

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Democracy in Central America: How Strong?

February 19, 2009, Washington, D.C. In association with the Hudson Institute.

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Latin America’s Radical Populism Challenges: What’s Next for a New U.S. Administration?

October 8, 2008, Washington, D.C. In association with the Hudson Institute.

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The Faces of Radical Populism in Latin America

April 3, 2008, Washington, D.C. In association with the Hudson Institute.

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Radical Populism in Latin America

November 6, 2007, Washington, D.C. In association with the Hudson Institute.

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37th IFPA-Fletcher Conference on National Security Strategy and Policy:
A New Maritime Strategy for 21st-Century National Security

September 26–27, 2007, Washington, D.C.

Description

The 37th IFPA-Fletcher conference on 60th national security strategy and policy. Building on previous conferences in this series, the 37th IFPA-Fletcher National Security Conference provided a timely, high-level forum for presentation and analysis of the U.S. Navy’s new maritime strategy. It brought together a unique mix of expertise from government and the private sector; from the civilian and military communities; from think tanks, industry, and academia; and from the United States and abroad.

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Leftism and Populism in Today’s Latin America: Is  Chavismo Contagious?

July 9, 2007, Washington, D.C. In association with the Hudson Institute.

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36th Annual IFPA-Fletcher Conference on National Security and Policy: Implementing the New Triad: Nuclear and Non-Nuclear Forces in 21st-Century Deterrence

December 14–15, 2005

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Mexican-U.S. Partnership: Enhancing Our Common Security

December 2, 2005, Washington, D.C.

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Canada - U.S. Partnership: Enhancing Our Common Security

March 14, 2005, Washington, D.C.

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Planning for and Responding to Bio-terror Threats to the U.S. Homeland: NORTHCOM’s Roles, Capabilities, and Requirements

March 30, 2004, Washington, D.C. In support of U.S. Northern Command and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

Reforming Military Support for Foreign Disaster Relief and Humanitarian Assistance

by Dr. Charles M. Perry and Marina Travayiakis, feature Article in Liaison, Journal of Civil-Military Humanitarian Relief Collaboration, issue 1, 2008

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