Illuminating North Korea’s strategic drivers to support smarter policymaking and reduce regional conflict risk in a volatile security landscape.
Analysis of China’s strategic intentions and foreign policy behaviors
Reducing the risk and harm associated with the global arms trade
Assessing and testing the influence and applicability of rapidly evolving technologies like AI, blockchain, nuclear technology, and more in reshaping global security challenges
Focusing on tools and mechanisms that deter malicious cyber activity and address cyber harms through research, collaboration, and dialogue.
Explores the trends, developments, and diplomatic initiatives of powers in East Asia.
Building inclusive, evidence-based processes to strengthen transboundary water governance and optimize tradeoffs between water, energy, and sustainable development
Exploring the intersection of environmental change, health, and population dynamics and its links to conflict, human insecurity, and foreign policy.
Toward a “New Normal” in Global Order
Improving communication and advancing understanding of Japan as a regional and global stakeholder
Promoting greater understanding of relations between the United States and the Korean Peninsula to help address some of the world’s most pressing traditional and nontraditional security challenges.
Advance democratic governance, security, and sustainable development across Latin America and the Caribbean.
Inform policy discussions on the Middle East by leveraging regional expertise, convening dialogues, and producing rigorous, non-partisan analysis and scholarship.
Reliable and timely U.S. financial investment in the multilateral system helps to uphold the existing rules-based international order and pays enormous dividends for U.S. foreign policy.
Exposing waste in the military budget while offering pragmatic, forward-thinking perspectives on security policy issues – regardless of politics or parochial interests.
Advancing understanding of the political economies, governance dynamics, and geostrategic linkages shaping North Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Sahel through rigorous analysis, regional expertise, and accessible research that informs global policy debates.
Incentivizing the development of stronger, comprehensive nuclear security standards to reduce the risk posed by nuclear terrorism
Empowering the international community to combat WMD proliferation
Exploring how UN field missions can use renewable energy to improve effectiveness, save money, enhance security, and increase access to energy while mitigating climate change
Reducing civilian casualties in conflict zones around the world
Challenge conventional wisdom, question assumptions, and help policymakers manage risks, make informed decisions, and allocate resources wisely.
Preventing conflict escalation and enhancing strategic stability in U.S.-Russia relations through communication and mutual understanding
Critical exchange and open, objective inquiry of the power dynamics in and around Southern Asia
Promoting sustainable growth, peace, and security in Southeast Asia.
Providing actionable foresight, global risk analysis, and innovative strategies to a community of policymakers, business leaders, and citizens
Enabling strategic trade stakeholders to strengthen international peace and security
Strengthening the capacity and capability of the US government to improve American national security at a lower cost to the American people
Creating innovative solutions to solve the drivers of food insecurity around the world.
Exploring the costs of strengthening health systems in developing nations, and the costs of failing to do so
Helping policymakers anticipate and assess near-term and long-term changes in political behavior, economic development, and social progress in specific states and regions
Mitigating transnational threats of WMD proliferation, illicit trafficking, terrorism, disease, counterfeit property, and environmental crime to make the world a safer, more prosperous place.
Examining the resiliency of the verification system that supports the nuclear nonproliferation regime
Strengthening the norms for the responsible use of space by every space-faring nation
Understanding the implications of the global trade and use of technology on international security
Examining how international conflict management and support for good governance can create sustainable peace in areas plagued by violence
Mitigating security risks of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction through the implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1540