Areas of Expertise
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.
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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) |