Scholarly Research & Policy Relevance: One Journal Editor’s Perspective

Introduction How do articles in scholarly journals influence national security policy? What purposes do policy-relevant articles serve? Why should scholars in the social sciences write and publish policy-relevant articles on…
Nuclear South Asia: Course Lecturers
…Asia Nonproliferation Proram, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies Thomas Lynch, Distinguished Research Fellow for South Asia and the Near East, Center for Strategic Research, Institute of National Strategic Studies,…
A Collapsing Order

…efforts. Baghdad, Iraq: Iraqi Center for Policy Analysis & Research. Retrieved from https://iraqcr.com/details.aspx? =hewal&jmare=2092&Jor=2&Jor2=16 Given the top-down, intrinsic and built-in nature of state pillage by the kleptocratic ruling elites and…
Statement before the U.S.-China Economic & Security Review Commission
…Commission. Although the National Security Commission and Foreign Affairs Commission are both commissions under the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, the bureaucratic rankings of its members are senior…
Privacy Policy
…you that link to this Privacy Policy or other communications with you. Stimson-conducted research. Collectively, we refer to the Websites, Social Media Pages, emails, and Stimson-conducted research as the “Services.”…
Unregulated Mining Along Rivers in Mainland Southeast Asia

…January 2024, Alluvial mining in the Nam Kading Basin, Laos. Image: Google Earth, Maxar Before: February 2010, Alluvial mining on Uyu River, Myanmar. Image: Google Earth, Maxar After: December 2020,…
What the Last Century of Efforts to Bridge the Beltway/Ivory Tower Gap In National Security Tells Us

…Cold War, universities were vital centers of new research” and that at one time U.S. national security policymakers successfully tapped intellectual “resources outside of government” to help them formulate policy.1…
Big Data Seeks Context, for Long-Term Relationship: Reflections on the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project (ESOC)

…with the help of a confluence of changes in the research and policy environment, and some luck.19 Note: Stated differently, Minerva Research Initiative support enabled us to rapidly build on…