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.

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.

Achieving common ground between regional rivals and conflicting parties through expert and political leader dialogue and policy development and providing consultancy and advice on current and future dynamics in the region.