U.S. National Security Strategy Texts and Resilience Discourse Analysis, 2002-2022

U.S. National Security Strategies from 2002 to 2022, analyzed for non-traditional security threats and resilience discourse. The dataset includes six policy texts, prevalence data for generating a figure, and thematic codes for resilience discourse and foreign policy traditions. Author Peter Ferguson contributed this replication data to the Foreign Policy Analysis Dataverse, last updated in June 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze the prevalence of non-traditional security threats based on the word find analysis mentioned in the description
• Study thematic codes for resilience discourse based on the attached coding document
• Compare foreign policy traditions across different administrations based on the coded thematic framework
• Replicate the generation of Figure 1 (prevalence data) and Table 2 (thematic codes) as described

Strengths

• Includes six full-text U.S. National Security Strategy documents spanning two decades (2002-2022)
• Contains manually recorded thematic codes for resilience discourse and foreign policy traditions
• Provides raw prevalence data used to generate a specific figure (Figure 1) as noted in the description

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• The corpus is described as 'relatively small', which may limit statistical analysis
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download

Provenance

Source

Foreign Policy Analysis Dataverse

Collection Method

Texts were analyzed using the 'word find' function in Adobe Acrobat for prevalence, and coding was recorded manually in a Word document.

Time Range

2002-2022

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-24 10:47:59; freshness should be verified

Geography

United States