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Editor: Tim Huxley
Assistant Editor: Katharine Fletcher
The Adelphi Papers monograph series is the Institute’s principal contribution to policy-relevant, original academic research. Eight papers are published each year, designed to provide rigorous analysis of strategic and defence topics that will prove useful to academics, researchers, politicians and diplomats, as well as foreign-affairs analysts, defence commentators and journalists.
From the very first paper, Alastair Buchan’s Evolution of NATO (1961), through Kenneth Waltz’s classic argument in The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: More May Be Better (1981), to influential additions to the series such as Mats R. Berdal’s Disarmament and Demobilisation after Civil Wars (1996) and Lawrence Freedman’s The Transformation of Strategic Affairs (2006), Adelphi Papers have traditionally provided analysis of key security issues, often serving to inform opinion, to stimulate debate and to challenge conventional thinking.
Longer than standard articles but shorter than books, Adelphi Papers permit the IISS both to remain responsive to events and to contribute significantly not only to debate on strategic affairs but also to the development of policy. While the format of Adelphi Papers has evolved over the years, through their authoritative substance and persuasive arguments recent issues have maintained the tradition of the series.
