The Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security works to develop sustainable, nonpartisan strategies to address the most important security challenges facing the United States and the world.
Featured in-depth research & reports
Wed, May 12, 2021
Falling in: The deterrent value of Host Nation Support in the Baltic Sea region
Host Nation Support plays a vital, yet often overlooked, role in enabling NATO’s overall deterrence strategy for the Baltic Sea region.
In-Depth Research & Reports by
Mon, Mar 22, 2021
The China plan: A transatlantic blueprint for strategic competition
China presents the United States and its partners with the most serious set of challenges they have faced since the Cold War. To manage this challenge, transatlantic nations need a blueprint to build a common approach.
In-Depth Research & Reports by
Tue, May 18, 2021
Predictable strategy and unpredictable operations: The implications of agility in Northern Europe
As the US military becomes increasingly agile, its evolving strategy and activities pose implications for cooperation with allies, deterrence, and stability in Northern Europe.
In-Depth Research & Reports by Conor Rodihan, Matthew R. Crouch, Ronald C. Fairbanks
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Defense and deterrence in Europe
Developing policy recommendations for deterring and defending against Russian aggression aimed at allies and partners in the European theater.
Emerging challenges to transatlantic security
Creating strategies to harness emerging and disruptive technologies to maintain NATO’s competitive advantage and cohering a transatlantic approach to hybrid threats from Russia and China.
China and transatlantic security
Identifying areas of divergence and convergence between the United States and Europe with respect to China and proposing ideas to collectively counter China’s malign activities.
NATO and the new south
Analyzing the security impacts of great power competition in the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions and developing strategies to improve stabilization missions beyond Europe’s borders.
Arctic security
Assessing the unique geopolitical and defense challenges of the High North to bridge perspectives between European and North American allies and partners on Arctic security issues.
NATO in America
Identifying bold policy ideas that demonstrate the enduring value of NATO to US interests in order to engage a new community of American champions for the Alliance.
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Fri, Mar 26, 2021
Opportunity knocks for NATO and its partners in the Asia-Pacific
Although NATO and its Asia-Pacific partners have developed their relations over the past two decades, various constraints have limited the ambition and potential of these relationships. But there may be a change of the status quo on the horizon.
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Tue, Mar 23, 2021
How Russia, China, and climate change are shaking up the Arctic
The Kremlin’s increasing military activities in the Arctic are worrying Norway—the only NATO member country that borders Russia north of the Arctic Circle. Frank Bakke-Jensen, Norway’s minister of defense, outlined his concerns.
New Atlanticist by
Tue, Mar 9, 2021
Why NATO should adopt a feminist foreign policy
As an alliance, NATO plays an important role in advancing equity within foreign policy. When NATO foreign ministers meet later in March, they should take the natural next steps toward adopting a feminist foreign policy.
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