1. Continental Security What can Academics contribute?

2. What we bring to the table Systematic frameworks for analysis Get outside box, get away from echo chamber Different timeframe/horizon Education and capacity building

3. What we need Funding Access Publications Students Make a difference

4. Approaches to Sustaining Research Short-term – Coordinated panels at relevant professional conferences – Sponsored research on continental security Long-term: SWAMOS model – Summer Workshop in the Analysis of Military Operations – Annual two-week event at Cornell – Capacity building in academic and policy community

5. Upcoming Conferences American Political Science Association – Seattle, September 2011 – Proposal deadline: December 15, 2010 Latin American Studies Association – San Francisco, May 2012 – Proposal deadline: April 1, 2011 International Studies Association – San Diego, June 2012 – Proposal deadline, ~ May 2011 Canadian Political Science Association – Edmonton, June 2012 – Proposal deadline, May-June 2011 International Political Science Association – Madrid, July 2012 – Proposal deadline: May 1, 2011

6. Identify common research topics What needs further research? – See panel 2? More? What model of sustaining research best applies to these topics? What additional networks need to be connected to the project? What do sponsors/policymakers/practitioners need?