The Reimagining US Grand Strategy Program strengthens U.S. foreign policy by testing assumptions, reassessing conventional wisdom, and exploring innovative approaches to international engagement.
Given the historic nature of the challenges facing U.S. policymakers in a rapidly changing world, we believe that the voices influencing policy decisions are often too narrow, and that unconventional thinking is urgently required. The program fills an important gap in the national discourse on the United States’ global role by injecting fresh thinking and unorthodox ideas.
Through original research, public and private events, and media appearances, we are transforming the national security debate, among both policy experts and the broader public.
The use of US power to advance democracy is a worthwhile cause, but policymakers should reassess what works, and why.
December 9, 2021
Americans should welcome and encourage others, especially US allies and partners, to play a more active role in regional and global affairs.
November 3, 2021
The U.S. should engage in a bolder type of security engagement that relies more on civilian participation, which will help to bolster the reform of security institutions.
August 4, 2021
An interactive visualization and downloadable dataset of overseas US active duty troop presence from 1991-2020.
July 14, 2021
Too often, foreign policy analysts have focused principally on the hard power component of China’s ambitions in the South China Sea.
May 13, 2021
How policymakers communicate strategy to various constituencies is an important corollary of their success or failure.
March 4, 2021
US policymakers should focus on whether sanctions are likely to produce the desired effect, rather than serving as simply a tool to signal displeasure.
February 24, 2021
Though these states are presumed to be creating a dangerous new era of great-power competition, it is an assumption with remarkably limited evidence to back it up.
February 3, 2021
