Past Grants

Richard Morningstar and Ellen Scholl will develop a road map to bolster European energy security. They will organize three workshops in Europe to assess the pillars of European energy security cooperation and then host a final workshop in Washington to outline steps for additional U.S.-European energy cooperation. The project’s findings will appear in a report and a series of issue briefs.

Scott Kennedy will assess China’s future economic potential by examining its capacity for innovation. He will analyze Chinese and Western source materials, expand a database on China’s technological and economic progress, and conduct field work in China, Europe, and Asia. The project’s findings will appear in a monograph, a series of reports and articles, and policy briefings.

Peter Singer and August Cole will research and write a book exploring how the rise of artificial intelligence could reshape the global security environment. They will assess potential political, social, economic, and security developments driven by artificial intelligence and present scenarios of the future through both a reality-based novel and nonfiction analytical writing.

Oren Cass will research and write a book that develops a policy agenda to increase the number of Americans in stable employment capable of sustaining families. He will assess how a focus on increasing economic output has limited the policy debate over reforms that could promote family well-being, such as wage subsidies, new models of unionization, and increased availability of career and technical education.

Donald Boyd will lead an effort to develop policy approaches that state and local governments can adopt if they become unable to cope with the costs associated with public employee pension plans. He will convene a working group composed of economists, law professors, and retired public officials to identify policy options for a pension-driven fiscal crisis. He will also examine measures that can be taken to alter incentives so that governments can lessen the likelihood of such a crisis. The project’s findings will appear in a series of reports and briefings for policymakers.

Daniel Kliman will lead an effort to identify how India’s military could make a meaningful contribution to the nation’s long-term strategic competition with China and assess what role the United States could play in bolstering a strategic relationship with India. He will undertake research and convene a tabletop exercise among U.S. and Indian security experts. The project’s findings will appear in a report.

Thomas Popik, William Harris, and George Baker will examine approaches to improve the resilience of the U.S. electric grid. They will identify the spectrum of grid-reliability issues and identify remedial actions that can be taken by regulators at the federal, regional, or state level. They will also outline a proposal for a new federal agency devoted to electric reliability, undertake a case study of the electric reliability threat in New England, educate stakeholders and the public on the need to reform the regulation of electric power generation and distribution, and start to build a cadre of younger analysts and policy thinkers on critical infrastructure issues. The project’s findings will appear in a series of articles and monographs.

David Dilegge will edit and publish Small Wars Journal, an online publication focused on improving the policy community’s ability to cope with increasing global disorder by enhancing the understanding of irregular warfare and stabilization operations.