Hey!!! Triangle Institute for Security Studies is a consortium of Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill, and NCSU, was founded in 1958.

It is an association of scholars centered committed to cooperation and communication across disciplinary and cultural divides.

Its mission is to advance research and education in the field of national and international security.


TISS currently sponsors the events organized by two other groups:

-The History of the Military, War, and Society, and

-The UNC-Ambassador’s Forum

Both of these programs reflect the traditional recognition of our organization of the need to put security concerns in a historical perspective.


TISS plays a role in the US Army’s Senior Service Fellowship Program which sends fellows to the National Security Fellows Program at UNC-Chapel Hill and a twin program at Duke – the Counterterrorism and Public Policy Fellowship Program.

People of TISS:
Kyle Beardsley
Anna Bigelow
William A. Boettcher
Daniel P. Bolger
Hal Brands
Joseph W. Caddell
Michael Cotter
Mark Crescenzi
Cori E. Dauber
Robin Dorff
Peter D. Feaver
Quauhtli Olivieri Herrera
Robert Jenkins
Tana Johnson
Richard H. Kohn
Wayne Lee
Francis Lethem
David Litt
Rolin Mainuddin
John Mattingly
Natalia Mirovitskaya
Tim Nichols
W. Robert Pearson
Carolyn Pumphrey
Tony Rivera
Alex Roland
Brenda Schoonover
Tommy Sowers
Michael Struett
Patricia Sullivan

Contact Details:
Triangle Institute for Security Studies
132 Rubenstein Hall, 302 Towerview Drive,
Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0316
Tel. 919-613-9280
Fax. 919-684-9940