Testing Assumptions About US Foreign Policy in 2025
…foreign policy. Our team operates in this way to inject new thinking into the foreign policy debate, not because old thinking is necessarily wrong, but because exercising the skeptical parts…
Police in UN Peacekeeping: Improving Selection, Recruitment, and Deployment
…from observing and reporting to training, reforming, operating alongside, and occasionally standing in for local police, the number of police required has also increased. Yet the UN faces key challenges…
From Ambition to Action: India’s Quest for Global Diplomatic Influence
…of aspirants to join the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) in recent decades. Once hired, the diplomats’ training also suffers because the IFS is allocated a meager budget ($2.5 million in 2023) to…
Toward a Mature Defense Partnership: Insights from a U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue
…These core technologies for civilian application undoubtedly spill over into the strategic and defense domains. Another proposal would harness existing government-funded training like International Military Education & Training funds to…
Reform the Foreign Policy Toolkit for a Rebalanced World
…the foreign assistance institutions have persisted for decades, rendering them ill-suited to this new environment. More money and more people will not be enough. America’s civilian foreign policy toolkit is riddled…
Revisiting the Past: Pakistan & Feminist Foreign Policy
…dire need of moving towards the intersectional and inclusive conception of foreign policymaking intrinsic to the FFP framework. Although this would represent a marked shift in Pakistan’s foreign policy, it is…
Beyond Denial: Toward a Credible Cyber Deterrence Strategy
…reports blocking more than 100 million phishing attempts per day, and their TAG services track over 270 government-backed threat actors.32Google. “Threat Analysis Group.” Google Blog. Accessed September 26, 2025. https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/….
Haitian Perspectives on the International Response to the Political and Security Crisis
…foreign forces in a security mission to Haiti by providing them with training and equipment while neglecting the Haitian National Police, which is now on the verge of collapse. More…