Six programs, organized around how decisions actually get made.
Our scholars work across disciplines because the problems do — the line between foreign and domestic policy is where most of the hard questions live. Select a program to see its publications.
Geopolitics & Security
We study great-power competition as it actually unfolds: deterrence and escalation, alliance politics and burden-sharing, and the growing use of sanctions, export controls, and investment screens as instruments of statecraft.
Economic Policy
Our economists work on the questions that decide whether growth is durable and broadly shared: monetary credibility and the path of inflation, fiscal sustainability under demographic pressure, and the political economy that determines which reforms survive.
Governance & Democracy
We examine the institutions that make self-government work — the scope of executive power, the administration of elections, the design of constitutional guardrails — and what it takes to keep them resilient under strain.
Trade & the Global Order
As interdependence is rewired, we map the consequences: supply-chain security and friend-shoring, industrial policy and subsidy races, and the chokepoints — from semiconductors to shipping — that now carry strategic weight.
Society & Public Opinion
Through original survey research and data analysis, we track what the public actually believes: the sources of polarization, the long erosion of institutional trust, and the gap between what voters say they want and what policy delivers.
Technology & the State
Frontier technology is becoming an industrial and security question. We study the compute economy, the governance of advanced AI, and the practical capacity governments need to see and steer technologies that move faster than law.