Bobby Andersen

Bobby Anderson is a research associate at the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis. She focuses on Nordic affairs, NATO and European security issues, U.S. defense strategy, regional security developments in the Asia-Pacific, changing security dynamics in the Arctic region.

  • research projects
  • publications
  • conferences & workshops
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.
project details || monograph (47.36 MB) || selected readings
Peace Regime Building for a Nuclear Weapon-free Korean Peninsula: Next Steps for Capacity Building
In cooperation with institutional partners in Northeast Asia, IFPA is leading a nongovernmental multinational working group to discuss, research, and draft a joint proposal for a Korean peace regime that complements related inter-Korean efforts and facilitates North Korean denuclearization.
interim report (2.65 MB) || project details
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.
project report (4.29 MB) || project details
Sending UCAS to Sea: A Superior Carrier through the Unmanned Combat Air System
This project, launched in 2008, considers the key characteristics, capabilities, and future role in carrier fleet operations of the Navy Unmanned Combat Air System (N-UCAS) now under development.
project details
New Strategic Dynamics in the Arctic Region: Implications for National Security and International Collaboration
Charles M. Perry and Bobby Andersen
February 2012, 190 pp
Description
A comprehensive examination of the new strategic map now emerging in the Arctic as the polar ice cap continues to melt, opening a new ocean and giving way to new and ever larger waterways in the High North.
monograph (47.36 MB) || project details || selected readings
A Comprehensive Approach to Combating Illicit Trafficking
A joint report by IFPA and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)
June 2010, 176 pp
Description
This report is based on extensive independent research conducted by IFPA on the multifaceted challenges posed by illicit trafficking and efforts to combat it; the report also incorporates discussions held at a high-level international workshop on the topic organized by IFPA and GCSP in Geneva, Switzerland, in September 2009.
report (8.63 MB) || workshop details
Finding the Right Mix: Disaster Diplomacy, National Security, and International Cooperation
Charles M. Perry, with Marina Travayiakis, Bobby Andersen, and Yaron Eisenberg
January 2009
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.
report (4.29 MB) || project details
A Comprehensive Approach to Combating Illicit Trafficking
September 28 – September 29, 2009, Geneva, Switzerland
Description
Organized by IFPA and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, with the support of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).
focus report (8.63 MB) || workshop details || workshop agenda || workshop participants