Daniel Byman, Cynthia Cook, Sean Monaghan, Benjamin Jensen, and Seth Jones will examine how the United States can strengthen its approach to intelligence sharing, strategic planning, and building allied capacity with Japan, Poland, Australia, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom. The project’s findings will appear in a series of papers and a report.
Dinny McMahon and Andrew Polk will research and write a monograph assessing possible trajectories for the Chinese economy over the next decade. They will analyze data on China’s debt and demographics in order to project how government efforts to manage the effects of these variables might shape China’s political economy.
Daniel Runde and Erin Murphy will evaluate threats to the physical and data security of undersea cables and explore how the United States can work with allies and private-sector actors to build out and secure such cables. The project’s findings will be presented in a report.
Lucy Hornby will research and write a book exploring the career and mindset of President Xi Jinping. She will analyze Chinese- and Western-language materials pertaining to Xi’s life and will conduct interviews with experts in Asia, Australia, Europe, and the United States.
Seth Jones will research and write a book setting forth an agenda to reinvigorate the U.S. defense industrial base. He will undertake research at governmental and corporate archives on the evolution of the U.S. defense industrial base since World War II and will interview policymakers and experts about the competition between the U.S. and Chinese defense industrial bases.
Natasha Hall will research and write a book exploring how authoritarian regimes are learning from the repressive tactics employed during the Syrian civil war and how the United States might curb the use of such practices against established and nascent democracies.
Ryan Berg will assess the degree to which China and Russia are coordinating their security, economic, and information policies in the Western Hemisphere and examine how such collaboration could affect U.S. interests in Latin America and the Caribbean. The project’s findings will appear in a report.
Seth Jones will examine how the United States and its allies could most effectively respond to the growing risk of a multifront war with some combination of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. The project’s findings will appear in a report.
Victor Cha, Ellen Kim, and Andy Lim will research and write a book exploring how the United States and its allies and partners can respond to and deter China’s weaponization of economic interdependence.
Carol Kuntz will identify how the U.S. military may effectively and safely utilize capabilities enabled by artificial intelligence (AI). She will explore policy issues surrounding AI-enabled military capabilities and undertake interviews with Defense Department officials on the Pentagon’s current approach to this issue and with technical experts on options for improving the accuracy of AI algorithms. The project’s findings will be presented in a report.