Research

As the research arm of the Naval Postgraduate School's Department of National Security Affairs, the Center for Contemporary Conflict conducts research on current and emerging security concerns of the United States and its allies. Our areas of expertise include asymmetric conflict, WMD proliferation and counterproliferation, regional instability, and strategic nuclear policy. 

CCC personnel bring to our research programs a wide range of academic and military experience, and a unique degree of access to both academia and the defense establishment. Our projects range from tightly focused queries that engage one or two center members, to broad collaborative efforts that bring in outside experts from the United States, its allies, and other cooperating nations.

Group programs include conferences and workshops as well as ongoing participant collaboration facilitated in part by this web site. Our objectives tend toward framing and evaluating defense policy options for the United States and its allies, and our projects generate reports, government briefings, as well as both external and internal publications.

The Department of National Security Affairs faculty also supervise high quality, policy-relevant student research conducted by service officers and officials completing the master's degree program as well as the new doctoral program. Past student theses are available for download.

Contact

For further information about current CCC research projects, please contact:

Email: ccc@nps.edu