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Current Research
Following are current IFPA projects and those completed since 2009. Please visit our archived projects page for a list of projects completed before 2009.
- IFPA Style Conventions
- Concise guide to IFPA's house style
- project details || download guide
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- The U.S.-Japan Alliance and the Future of Extended Deterrence
- In the new setting since North Korea’s nuclear test, this project, completed in 2009, undertakes a fresh assessment of thinking in Japan and the United States about extended deterrence in Northeast Asia.
- project report (1.86 MB) || 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
- Space and U.S. Security: A Net Assessment
- 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.
- project report (5.96 MB) || project details
- 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
- 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
- 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
- In Times of Crisis: Global and Local Civil-Military Disaster Relief Coordination in the United States and Japan
- With support from the Japan Foundation's Center for Global Partnership (CGP), IFPA led this collaborative effort, completed in 2009, 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.
- monograph front matter and executive summary (3.59 MB) || full monograph available for purchase ($25) || project details
- Building Six-Party Capacity for a WMD-Free Korea
- This three-year study completed in 2008 involves all of the countries in the six-party process and examines how these countries can build a regional organization to help implement the key aspects of a denuclearization agreement reached with North Korea.
- 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