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Featured at IFPA
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Current Research
- ReDesign Project
- This is an ongoing project to redesign the ifpa.org website
- Test Download || Another test download
- The Awesome Project
- This project focuses on how awesome we are.
- Awesome Title of Document || Awesome page
- IFPA Style Conventions
- Concise guide to IFPA's house style
- project details || download guide
- 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
- Rapid Strategic Assessment for the NATO Special Operations Headquarters
- In support of the NATO Special Operations Headquarters (NSHQ), IFPA is a major contributor to the Rapid Strategic Assessment project, which works with NSHQ in carrying out its core missions.
- project details || project-related meetings || NATO Review article by Jacquelyn K. Davis
- After Hatoyama: Preparing for Japanese Foreign Policy in Transition
- This project will study the challenges that the recently elected Japanese government faces as it tries to develop viable alternatives to the bilateralism on which its foreign policy has been predicated for over fifty years.
- project details
- Peacebuilding as a U.S.-Japan Alliance Mission: Developing a Complementary “Whole-of-Alliance” Approach
- Working together with partners from Osaka University’s School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) and others, IFPA has undertaken this project to examine U.S.-Japan peacebuilding collaboration and how it could strengthen the alliance in the long run.
- project details || April 29, 2011 workshop agenda
- 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
- Support to the Defense Department, Combatant Commands, and Military Service Leadership
- This is an ongoing project for the Department of Defense (DoD), for which the Institute provides detailed policy reports and organizes high-level workshops on critical issues of national security for DoD, combatant command (COCOM), and military service leaderships.
- project details
- 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.
- project details
- Independent Working Group on Missile Defense
- As part of IFPA's missile defense program, the Independent Working Group (IWG) on Post-ABM Treaty Missile Defense and the Space Relationship is exploring missile defense architectures that include space-based systems.
- report (7.04 MB) || June 23, 2009, roundtable || project details
- 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
Publications
- IFPA Style Guide: A Guide for IFPA Staff
- Adelaide Ketchum
- March 2012, 25 pp
- Description
- A concise guide to the IFPA house style.
- download guide || project details
- Summary of the IFPA ReDesign: A fascinating tale of php, html, JavaScript, and CSS
- Chritina Roberts and Adelaide Ketchum
- February 2012, 48 pp
- Description
- This publication is awesome. You should download it immediately!
- Sample download
- Awesome Title: Semi-Awesome Subtitle
- Issue 4444
- Chritina Roberts and Adelaide Ketchum
- February 2012, 5487 pp
- Description
- This is an awesome description of our awesome publication.
- Title of Awseome PDF || Title of Awesome Link
- Test pub
- February 2012, 2 pp
- Description
- blah blah blah
- Cool Beans: Exploring Ways to Fool Your Colleagues
- Adelaide Ketchum
- February 2012, 10 pp
- Description
A recap of a madly amusing workshop that spelled out many ways to tie your colleagues in knots while remaining serenely above the fray.
- Sample download || workshop 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
- Denuclearizing North Korea: Exploring Multilateral Approaches to Risk Reduction and Peace Regime Building
- Weston S. Konishi
- September 2011, 71 pp
- Description
- The final project report from an nongovernmental (Track 2) multinational working group led by IFPA to address security issues on the Korean peninsula.
- project report (765 KB) || project details
- The Marine Corps: America's Expeditionary Force in Readiness
- 39th IFPA-Fletcher Conference on National Security Strategy and Policy
- Conference report
- July 2011, 107 pp
- report (3.45 MB) || post-conference website
- The U.S. Approach to Peacebuilding: From a Whole-of-Government to a Whole-of-Alliance Approach with Japan
- Weston S. Konishi and Charles T. McClean
- June 2011, 14 pp
- Description
- This paper was first presented at a one-day bilateral workshop on April 29, 2011, held in conjunction with the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) in Washington, D.C. In the papers, authors aim to assess each government's “whole-of-government” or interagency coordination of peacebuilding policies and to identify priorities, assets, and expertise as applied to Afghanistan and Sudan. The goal of the project is to explore the strengths and weaknesses of both the United States and Japan’s respective initiatives with an eye toward how the two allies can best cooperate and work synergistically in a “whole of alliance” approach to peacebuilding operations in vulnerable or failing states.
- peacebuilding paper (164 KB) || workshop agenda || project details
Conferences & Workshops
- Cool Beans: a Conference
- February 20 – February 24, 2012, D.C., Christina Text that is ALL CAPS
- Description
- a lovely conference about what is cool.
- link 1
- Counter-Piracy and Counter-Terrorism Planning for Somalia and the Horn of Africa: Implications for NATO and NSHQ Planning
- January 10, 2012, The Hague, the Netherlands
- Description
- IFPA collaborated with the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies to organize the seventh NATO SOF Coordination Centre (NSCC) Senior Steering Group (SSG) meeting, a workshop on Somalia and future requirements for counter-piracy and counter-terrorism planning. The workshop explored options for dealing with piracy and its potential use by al-Shabab to destabilize Somalia and its regional partners, and to understand more precisely the possibilities for and/or constraints on an expanded use of NATO, the European Union (EU), or national forces to support the African Union mission in Somalia (AUMIS), to shore up the position of the Transnational Federal Government (TFG) in and possibly beyond Mogadishu, and to empower regional forces in their fight against violent extremists on the African continent. A related workshop objective was to explore the possibilities for enhancing and broadening intelligence collaboration on counter-piracy and counter-terrorism planning between NATO and the EU, and how such collaboration could enable NATO SOF to position themselves more effectively should the Alliance’s political leaders decide to support a more forward-leaning position on Somalia and the Horn of Africa, either to facilitate World Food Program deliveries or to employ the use of force, under a new UNSC mandate, to target jihadi training camps, pirate bases, or other related logistical infrastructure on the ground in Somalia.
- meeting agenda || project details || list of all SAG/SSG meetings
- Redesigning IFPA Website Workshop
- January 3 – January 6, 2012, on the phone, IFPA
- Description
- This workshop was held to discuss what we are going to do on the website.
- Sample download || Project details
- NATO Special Operations Headquarters Senior Steering Group Meeting
- May 24 – May 26, 2011, Krakow, Poland
- Description
- The fifth SSG meeting took place in Krakow, Poland, on May 24–26, 2011, in conjunction with the NATO SOF Commanders' Conference and the dedication of the new Polish SOF Headquarters. The NATO SOF Commanders' Conference featured a panel presentation by four SSG members, focusing on lessons-learned from Afghanistan and recent operations. The four SSG members who participated on this panel—Dr. Jacquelyn K. Davis, Dr. Rob de Wijk, Commodore Lars Wille-Jorgensen, and Dr. Andrzej Karkoszka—had each traveled to Afghanistan with members of the NSHQ and met with ISAF and national SOF teams to hear their perspectives on lessons-learned and the way ahead for NATO SOF planning, training and education, and capabilities development. This meeting also featured the participation of senior Polish defense officials and leaders from U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), including Admiral Eric Olson.
- slides || project details || list of all SAG/SSG meetings
Articles & Presentations
- How to Redesign the IFPA Website into Something AWESOME!!!
- Adelaide Ketchum
- Awesome Document || Awesome Link
- Footnotes, IFPA Style!
- Your text to link...
- Footnotes, IFPA Style! Second edition
- Download article
- Testing
- Test 1
- NATO after 9/11: A US Perspective
- By Jacquelyn K. Davis, September 2011
- article available online