Resources

Recent Publications and Videos

Book: Adapting America’s Security Paradigm and Security Agenda, Roy Godson and Richard Shultz with Querine Hanlon and Samantha Ravich (Washington, DC: National Strategy Information Center, 2011).

Report: Fostering A Culture of Lawfulness: Multi-Sector Success in Pereira, Colombia, (Washington, DC: National Strategy Information Center, 2010).

Report: Adapting America’s Security Paradigm and Security Agenda, Roy Godson and Richard Shultz with Querine Hanlon and Samantha Ravich (Washington, DC: National Strategy Information Center, 2010).

Book: Armed Groups and Irregular Warfare; Adapting Professional Military Education, Richard H. Shultz, Jr., Roy Godson, and Querine Hanlon (Washington, DC: National Strategy Information Center, 2009).

Book: Democratic Security for the Americas: Intelligence Requirements, Roy Godson and Jose Manuel Vergara (English: National Strategy Information Center; Spanish: Conred, Mexico City, 2008).

Video: Adapting the Paradigm: The Contemporary Security Environment

Video: Taking Back Palermo (English)

Video: Taking Back Palermo (Spanish)

Research Essays: Confrontation and Conflict in the 21st Century

Throughout its nearly five decades, the National Strategy Information Center (NSIC) has been at the forefront of conducting and publishing research on the evolving nature of the global security environment and the capabilities required to support US interests. NSIC and its principal staff have published hundreds of books, monographs, articles, and curricula. In recent years, this has included:

  • Richard H. Shultz, Jr. and Andrea Dew, Insurgents, Terrorists, and Militias: The Warriors of Contemporary Combat (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006);
  • Roy Godson and Richard H. Shultz, Jr., “Intelligence Dominance: A Better Way Forward in Iraq,” The Weekly Standard (July 31, 2006);
  • Ko-Lin Chin and Roy Godson, “Organized Crime and the Political-Criminal Nexus in China,” Trends in Organized Crime, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Spring 2006);
  • Richard H. Shultz and Ruth Margolies Beitler, “Tactical Deception and Strategic Surprises in Al-Qai’da’s Operations,” MERIA Journal, 8:2 (Summer 2004);
  • Richard H. Shultz, Jr., Douglas Farah, Itamara V. Lochard, Armed Groups: A Tier-One Security Priority (U.S. Air Force Academy, Institute for National Security Studies, 2004);
  • Roy Godson, Dirty Tricks or Trump Cards: U.S. Covert Action and Counterintelligence (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2003);
  • Roy Godson, ed., Menace to Society: Political-Criminal Collaboration Around the World (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2003);
  • Roy Godson, “Transnational Crime, Corruption, and Security,” Grave New World: Security Challenges in the Twenty-First Century, Michael E. Brown, ed. (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2003);
  • Richard H. Shultz, Jr. and Andreas Vogt, “The Real Intelligence Failure on 9-11 and the Case for a Doctrine of Striking First,” Terrorism and Counterterrorism, Russell D. Howard and Reid L. Sawyer, eds. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002);
  • John Bailey and Roy Godson, eds., Organized Crime and Democratic Governability: Mexico and the U.S. Mexican Borderlands (Pittsburgh, PA, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001);
  • Roy Godson, “The Challenge of TransState Actors to U.S. Interests,” U.S. International Leadership in the 21st Century, W. Bruce Weinrod & Paula J. Dobrianksy, eds. (McLean, VA: Potomac Foundation, McLean, VA, 2000); and
  • Roy Godson, “Strengthening Cooperation Against Transsovereign Crime: A New Security Imperative,” Beyond Sovereignty: Issues for a Global Agenda, M. Cusimano, ed. (New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2000).