ABSTRACT
The high proportion of security and international affairs institutions not only indicates a lasting prominence of security issues among research organizations, but is also linked to expansion of security topics. Institutions that originally examined just conventional military and nuclear security shifted their research agendas to include a combination of seven security foci. In examining both the quantitative and qualitative data, it becomes clear that the shift from traditional to non-traditional foci in the field of security research in think tanks began at the end of the Cold War. In the current global context of increasing demand for specialized advice on both traditional and non-traditional security issues, governments around the world have been encouraging the establishment of Security and International Affairs think tanks. In order to determine more fully the nature of the shift from traditional to non-traditional security studies, future research might track trends in funding and research agendas of representative institutions over the course of the latter twentieth century.
