Nov 8, 2009
Topics
- Understanding issues such as the health and management of the global defense industrial base and those related to defense reform.
- Providing strategic thinking about how institutions are structured to guard against a range of threats to the United States.
- Analyzing the threats and opportunities shaping global security.
- Analyzing a host of issues, including the global military balance, asymmetric warfare, and regional conflicts
- Investigating a range of nuclear issues, including the security of existing weapons and materials, international nonproliferation regimes, and the human infrastructure needed to support capabilities and to deal with challenges.
- Finding better ways for the United States and its local and international partners to build peaceful and functioning societies in weak and war-torn states.
- Analyzing the threat of terrorism and working to develop a response that includes international dialogue and a cohesive effort by diplomatic, military, law enforcement, and intelligence personnel.
- Analyzing economic, environmental, and security implications for a range of alternative fuels and energy technologies.
- Examining both short- and long-term forecasts and trends to offer insight on global energy markets.
- Providing timely analysis of regional energy trends and the geopolitics of energy.
- Understanding the complex links between energy security and climate change and discussing U.S. reengagement and global action.
- Developing solutions to the global food and water challenges that affect economic growth, human development, health, and stability.
- Creating a strategy for U.S. engagement on global health by bridging the foreign policy and public health communities
- Understanding how HIV/AIDS affects regions of the world and working to strengthen U.S. leadership in combating the disease abroad.
- Understanding demographic trajectories and their associated social, economic, and security implications to improve how strategic calculations are made.
- Promoting long-range thinking across sectors and about a host of global strategic issues, including technology, resources, and education.
- Researching how high-quality coverage of political, economic, security, social, and cultural developments contributes to wider awareness and understanding of global issues.
- Understanding the many issues related to building a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy that recognizes the threat as one of the major national security problems facing the United States while respecting American values related to privacy and civil liberties.
- Understanding the role of civil space development in national and international security and foreign policy.
- Understanding how technological change affects security and economic growth.