UCOR 3600: National Security

RAND conducts a broad array of national security research for the U.S. Department of Defense and allied ministries of defense.

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. They conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research. They do not take policy positions.

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens in order to help them better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries.

The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC. Research topics include defense and national security.

Founded in 1985 by journalists and scholars to check rising government secrecy, the National Security Archive combines a unique range of functions: investigative journalism center, research institute on international affairs, library and archive of declassified U.S. documents.

A university based research group that focuses on the study of the causes and effects of terrorism from a global perspective.

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is a bipartisan, nonprofit policy research organization dedicated to advancing practical ideas to address the world’s greatest challenges.

Think tank with a focus on military affairs including investment, security, and defense. This site includes many freely available downloadable pdf reports.

The SIPRI Institute conducts research on questions of conflict and cooperation of importance for international peace and security.

A global think tank for defense and national security, the Atlantic Council provides a forum for navigating economic and political changes within a network of global leaders.

The Cato Institute is a public policy think tank committed to publish and increase understanding of public policies based on principles of individual liberty, free markets and peace, and limited government.

The Stimson Center is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank seeking to solve the world's greatest threats to security.

Blog whose authors "mean to devote this blog to that nebulous zone in which actions taken or contemplated to protect the nation interact with the nation’s laws and legal institutions. We will, I am sure, construe this subject broadly to include subjects as far-flung as cybersecurity, Guantánamo habeas litigation, targeted killing, biosecurity, universal jurisdiction, the Alien Tort Statute, the state secrets privilege and countless other related and not-so-related matters. . ."

Just Security is based at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law.

The National Security Strategy Archive is a non-partisan public service provided by The Taylor Group, a national security consulting firm, and is not affiliated with the US government or any foreign government.

The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) provides science-based analysis of and solutions to protect against catastrophic threats to national and international security.

Each year the U.S. Army War College Press (USAWC Press) publishes a large number of studies, conference reports, and book-length volumes on a spectrum of issues central to U.S. national security

D. Robert Worley
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015