National Security in the New Era

Today there is no consensus on what national security strategy will best address the threats that now confront the United States. A sustained effort is needed to define the questions and offer the answers that can help provide the basis for a new U.S. national security strategy. To that end, the Tobin Project is launching a multi-year effort to foster new academic research on key issues and trends relevant to making national security strategy for the new era.

Conference Summary

Two generations ago, American policymakers and scholars developed a U.S. national security strategy that offered a lasting and coherent response to the threats that emerged after World War II.

Charting a Research Agenda

A key component of this effort will be to chart a research agenda that frames questions central to security policymaking, and then to recruit and encourage scholars to carry out this agenda through their work.

Program

Key themes for the inaugural conference will include U.S. grand strategy, identity politics, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and waging wars of ideas.

For Participants

Conference participants can log in here with a username and password to access papers and other conference materials. Access is available by emailing project@tobinproject.org.

National Security Working Group

Thirteen scholars have been working together to seed new academic research and to build a community of scholars and policymakers focused on addressing questions central to national security strategy-making.

Airlie Center

Founded in 1960 as an “island of thought,” Airlie Center has provided a secluded setting for the exchange of ideas for nearly half a century.