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The mission of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies is to advance the understanding of national security in a global context.

One key way the center accomplishes this mission is by supporting faculty research projects in three core dimensions of national security:

Principal investigators come from a wide variety of departments - political science, history, sociology, public policy, women's studies, and philosophy, to name a few - and their work represents a full spectrum of research on national security.

To learn more, please click on the links to the left.

Secular protests in Turkey
Thousands of secular Turks wave national flags as they fill the waterfront in the coastal city of Izmir during a gathering to protest the Islamist-rooted government on May 13, 2007. Mershon senior faculty fellow Carter Findley is writing a book called Turkey: Islam, Nationalism and Modernity about the role of Islam and secularism in the history of modern Turkey.  (Photo by Burak Kara/Getty Images)

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