The Marshall Center promotes the notion of a lifelong and vibrant learning community. The Marshall Center, a unique U.S.-German partnership, is dedicated to conducting collaborative teaching, dialogue, and research into democratic security building, with a focus on identifying and analyzing challenges in order to discuss and promote security policy responses that uphold the national interests and values of friends and Allies, while mitigating risk and escalation.

The Marshall Center conducts research and policy analysis for three reasons. 

• First, professional participants need an evidence-based, research-led teaching approach that addresses real-world challenges. Research and policy analysis provide timely insights into pressing security concerns and challenges with the goal of building the capacity of U.S. and German friends and Allies to respond to, manage, and mitigate sources of insecurity.
• Second, research and policy analysis—disseminated through bespoke Marshall Center publication platforms, peer-reviewed academic and other external policy journals, and in oral briefings to senior leaders­—strengthens our alumni and wider networks and thus builds intellectual interoperability, shared understanding, and cognitive resilience in the face of regional and global uncertainties.
• Third, the Marshall Center recognizes the ethical duty of a publicly funded educational institution to produce timely, policy-relevant research and analysis that serves the needs of our own governments and partners, and to curate, package, and transfer already existing knowledge and best practices to Marshall Center course and event participants and alumni through our courses and programs.

Research at the Marshall Center involves collaborative efforts by faculty, fellows, and alumni, leading to multipartner research projects that result in publications. Research and policy analysis is supported by a world-class, open-access research library, boasting numerous open-source databases. 

For more information about the range of GCMC publications and collaborative opportunities for alumni and others in the Marshall Center network, please contact the chief of publications at publications [at] marshallcenter.org (publications[at]marshallcenter[dot]org) 

The Research Library advances and supports the learning, teaching, and research goals of our participants, faculty, and alumni. Our collection primarily focuses on global security, terrorism, cyberterrorism, international relations, strategic communication, as well as peace and stabilization operations, including crisis and conflict management. The library houses over 65,000 volumes of books and multimedia in English, German, and Russian and subscribes to over 150 journals. We also offer access to a much larger collection by way of e-books, e-journals, online databases and other electronic resources that can be accessed from anywhere on-campus, or via the GlobalNET portal when off-campus. Our staff provides valuable services such as Research Guides and research skills instruction in classes and workshops, as well as individualized help.