Our Research

The Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism supports research on core international security challenges: such as the causes and solutions to terrorism, the dynamics of martyrdom, the consequences of nuclear proliferation, the role of power of foreign policy, and the analytic premises of grand strategy. To advance these objectives, the Chicago Project comprises a variety of book-length and article-length monographs, Ph.D. dissertation research, articles in the national and international media, and research by faculty and graduate students at the University of Chicago and other institutions of higher learning.

Research on Terrorism

The Chicago Project advances the spread of knowledge and policy initiatives through the publication of new scholarship in the field of terrorism. The Project supports a variety of research in scholarly journals, the popular press, and Ph.D. dissertation research. The Project supports a variety of research in scholarly journals, major publishing houses, and Ph.D. dissertation research.

Research on International Security

The Chicago Project supports research on projects related to core international security challenges facing the United States and the international community. The two main projects supported by CPOST deal with power and foreign policy, and grand strategy of the Middle East.