Publications

This text argues that the politics of Brexit and the implementation of the new EU Global Strategy for Foreign and Security Policy have generated renewed momentum for European defense cooperation. To capitalize on this revived interest...chevron_right

This text examines the opportunities, problems and trade-offs that peacekeepers have to face when deciding where, with whom and how to engage in field operations. The text’s author specifically argues that by integrating bottom–up and people-centric approaches in...chevron_right

This publication examines China’s Silk Road Initiative, focusing on Beijing’s enthusiastic assessment of the project’s progress and how it contrasts with the lingering doubts felt by neighboring states. The doubts stem from...chevron_right

What does the Paris Climate Agreement permit or not permit when it comes to climate engineering? In this text, A N Craik and Wil Burns examine technologies that would facilitate carbon dioxide removal and solar radiation management. They conclude that these tools would confront legal stumbling blocks, but that the problems would ultimately be manageable.chevron_right

This brief takes a look at the risks migrants and rejected asylum seekers face when they’re forcibly returned to their point of origin. The text’s authors specifically argue that forced returns have become unduly criminalized and expose returnees to...chevron_right

This paper analyzes the potential regional impact of dislodging the so-called Islamic State (IS) from Mosul. The author argues that while the fall of the city would serve as a significant setback for IS...chevron_right

OK, so why doesn't it? According to Benjamin Friedman and Justin Logan, long-term US military dominance generated a grand strategy that presupposes military might is the foundation of American security. The elite consensus that then grew around this strategy created disincentives to analyze its assumptions critically. And since Washington-based think tanks have long stopped thinking about biting the hands that feed them, inertia (and group think) then followed.chevron_right

Does China’s confrontational behavior in the East and South China Seas prove it has a deliberate, well-articulated doctrine that’s designed to lockout other powers from these areas? Beijing denies that such a doctrine exists, but Steven Jackson thinks he’s got the proof, even if it’s incremental.chevron_right

This issue of the SSQ examines 1) what the US’ space exploration policy should look like; 2) the ongoing debate over the US’ grand strategy; 3) how to improve the effectiveness of US offensive cyber operations; 4) whether China has an actual policy to...chevron_right

This report focuses on the challenges of revitalizing the Bretton Woods economic system on behalf of a transnational order that serves the strategic interests of the United States and its Asian allies. The text concludes that to accomplish this end, the US needs to...chevron_right

OK, so why are some Eastern European countries seemingly less keen on joining NATO than they were in the 1990s? The authors of this text think it’s because 1) the countries haven’t quickly and easily graduated from the “school of democracy” or...chevron_right

This report lays out six possible economic trajectories that Latin America and the Caribbean nations might take up to the year 2030. Overall, the text’s authors project that 57 million people in the regions will join the middle class over the next 14 years and...chevron_right

This paper first discusses the underlying political conditions and state-society relations that generated instability in the Arab World before and after the uprisings of 2011. The text then examines the governance models that exist...chevron_right

This paper examines the ways in which the Russian government has attempted to influence both the politics and policy development of Europe, with a special emphasis on France, Germany and the UK. The Kremlin’s kitbag of options include...chevron_right

This paper reviews the European Commission's Capital Markets Union (CMU) action plan, which would allow EU economies to grow faster by removing barriers to cross-border investment. In particular, the text 1) looks at the reasons...chevron_right