Regional, Strategy, and Policy Analysis Division
Expertise
                                
    
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                            The Current State of Russian-Chinese Defense Cooperation 
                        
                        
                    
                    
                         
                                                            
                            The Russian Air Campaign in Syria: A Preliminary Analysis
                        
                        
                    
                    
                         
                                                            
                            Exploring the Utility of Memes for U.S. Government Influence Campaigns
                        
                        
                    
                    
                         
                                                            
                            Great Power Competition in the Indian Ocean: The Past As Prologue?
                        
                        
                    
                    
                         
                                                            
                            Mapping Russian Media Network: Media’s Role in Russian Foreign Policy and Decision-making
                        
                        
                    
                    
                         
                                                            
                            Unconstrained Foreign Direct Investment: An Emerging Challenge to Arctic Security
                        
                        
                    
                    
                         
                                                            
                            Transnational Challenges and U.S. National Security: Defining and Prioritizing Borderless Threats
                        
                        
                    
                    
                         
                                                            
                            Future Policy Options for U.S. Efforts Against Al-Qaeda
                        
                        
                    
                    
                         
                                                            
                            Independent Assessment of U.S. Government Efforts against Al-Qaeda
                        
                        
                    
                    
                         
                                                            
                            The Origins and Development of A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower (2015)
                        
                        
                    
                    
                         
                                                            
                            Bangladesh v. India: A Positive Step Forward in Public Order of the Seas
                        
                        
                    
                    
                         
                                                            
                            Analytic Framework for Emulating Russian Decision-Making
                        
                        
                    
                    
                         
                                                            
                            Shining a Light on the Western Balkans: Internal Vulnerabilities and Malign Influence from Russia, Terrorism, and Transnational Organized Crime
                        
                        
                    
                    
                         
                                                            
                            Sources of Resilience in the Lord’s Resistance Army
                        
                        
                    
                    
                         
                                                            
                            The Role of Special Operations Forces in Global Competition
                        
                        
                    
                    
                         
                                                            
                            Russia's Approach to Cyber Warfare
                        
                        
                    
                    
                         
                                                            
                            The Same, Yet Different: United States and Gulf State Interests in the Post-Arab Spring Maghreb
                        
                        
                    
                    
                         
                                                            
                            American Naval Policy, Strategy, Plans and Operations in the Second Decade of the Twenty-First Century
                        
                        
                    
                    
                         
                                                            
                            The Future of U.S.-India Naval Relations
                        
                        
                    
                    
                         
                                                            
                            Water Resource Competition in the Brahmaputra River Basin: China, India, and Bangladesh
                        
                        
                    
                    
                         
                                                            
                            Asking the Right Questions: A Framework for Assessing Counterterrorism Actions
                        
                        
                    
                    
                         
                                                            
                            Summary Report: U.S.-UK Integration in Helmand
                        
                        
                    
                    
                         
                                                            
                            Mobilizing Compatriots: Russia's Strategy, Tactics, and Influence in the Former Soviet Union 
                        
                        
                    
                    
                         
                                                            
                            Charting the Course for Civil Affairs in the New Normal
                        
                        
                    
                    
                         
                                                            
                            Russia’s “Ambiguous Warfare” and Implications for the U.S. Marine Corps