A new CCAPS Research Brief details an innovative research project by seven of the world's top scholars of Constitutional Design and Conflict Management in Africa, organized by the Strauss Center.

A new policy brief from CCAPS researchers Josh Busby, Kaiba White and Todd Smith focuses on what drives climate security vulnerability in Africa, and examines potential policy responses.

Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar Robert M. Chesney explores U.S. laws on militaray detention and lethal force in two new articles published, or soon to be pubished, this year.

Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar Alan Kuperman critiques MARO: Mass Atrocity Response Operations; A Military Planning Handbook produced jointly by Harvard University and the US Army and provides strategy suggestions in this recent paper.

The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law is pleased to present the 2010-2011 Annual Research Note. This second Annual Research Note provides an overview of our activities for the 2010 - 2011 academic year. 

In his Farewell Address, President Eisenhower warned that the military-industrial complex (MIC) threatened to dominate American research, crowding out commercial innovation.

The Strauss Center's first annual research note provides an overview of research activities for the 2009 - 2010 academic year.

In a paper presented to the conference on Climate Change, Social Stress and Violent Conflict in Hamburg, Germany, CCAPS researchers, led by Dr. Joshua Busby, locate the confluence of vulnerabilities in African regions through the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and multi-layered mapping.

Due to the nature of world oil markets and the way natural gas is transported and distributed, Dr. Gholz argues that the policies of Russia and China are nothing to fear--and in fact may benefit the U.S. in the long run.

Stephen Krasner, former State Department Director of Policy Planning and Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations at Stanford University, discusses the intersection of policy-making and academic research in this Bridging the Gap working paper.