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Beijing Workshop
Building Mulit-party Capacity for a WMD-free Korean Peninsula
Foreign policy specialists and government officials from six nations gathered for a one-day workshop in Beijing, China, to discuss near-term prospects for strengthening the six-party process in order to resolve the North Korean nuclear issue. More...

Disaster Relief Project Report
In Times of Crisis:Global and Local Civil-Military Disaster Relief Coordination in the United States and Japan
IFPA completed this interim report as part of an ongoing two-year study on civil-military disaster-relief coordinatio nin the United States and Japan. About the project...

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Iran Project
Iran with Nuclear Weapons: Anticipating the Consequences for U.S. Security
Based on the assumption, unpalatable as it may seem, that a nuclear Iran is all but inevitable, this project focuses on three critically important questions: What are the geopolitical consequences of a nuclear Iran for the United States ? What would a nuclear Iran mean for U.S. defense and deterrence requirements at the regional and global levels? And what, in particular, would the United States need to do, diplomatically and militarily, to reassure friends and allies, and to strengthen extended deterrence, in the face of a nuclear Iran? More...

IFPA Special Report
Radical Islamist Ideologies and the Long War: Implications for U.S. Strategic Planning and U.S. Central Command's Operations

IFPA completed this report as part of an ongoing study of radical Islam and its implications for the Long War against terrorism.
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Workshop Research & Summary Report
Pandemic Influenza Workshop: Multilateral Perspectives on Preparedness, Response Planning, and Areas for Cooperation

IFPA announces the release of a new report on preparing for a possible pandemic influenza crisis, based in part on the results of an IFPA-led multilateral workshop held in Tokyo, Japan. More...
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Project Report & Workshop Summary
Building Multi-Party Capacity for a WMD-Free Korean Peninsula

A report on this ongoing multi-year project, based on the proceedings of a February 2006 workshop and extensive follow-up research into ways in which greater stability and predictability can be introduced to the denuclearization dialogue. About the project...


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Deterrence Project
The U.S.-Japan Alliance & the Future of Extended Deterrence

In the new setting since North Korea’s nuclear test, IFPA undertakes a fresh assessment of thinking in Japan and the United States about extended deterrence in Northeast Asia. More...


Workshop Summary Report
Rethinking the War on Terror: Developing a Strategy to Counter Extremist Ideologies

IFPA completed and distributed this summary report on workshop focused on assessing the ideological roots of Islamist extremism and on ways in which such ideologies can be more effectively countered. More...

 

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Independent Working Group Report

Missile Defense, the Space Relationship, and the Twenty-first Century

This report provides an assessment of missile defense requirements beyond the limited ground-based system currently being deployed, together with opportunities to benefit from existing and new technological opportunities.  More specifically, it is intended to provide a greater understanding of proven technology options that should form the basis for deployment of an innovative missile defense that draws upon the legacy of technologies developed during the Strategic Defense Initiative program of the Reagan administration and the first Bush administration. More...
Wall Street Journal op-ed piece by Amb. Hank Cooper and Dr. Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr., published August 28, 2006

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