Meridian Briefs
Our cutting-edge research spans geographic and thematic programs and forms the basis for our convening and outreach. Explore our reports, briefs, and policy notes.
Reconsidering decades of expansionist assumptions and rebuilding disciplined, proportionate statecraft.
Pathways to a stable balance of power and peaceful management of regional disputes.
Promoting peace and cooperation in Europe and Eurasia without costly new military commitments.
Avoiding new military entanglements and building diplomatic off-ramps in a volatile region.
A fundamentally new approach that recognizes the rising power and agency of the Global South.
When sanctions, tariffs, and industrial policy work — and when they backfire.