Re-Imagining Global Architecture
This program attempts to provide a deep understanding of the emerging world order and examine the ability of current institutions to deal with it. The transformative power of technology and the importance of security are central to exploring this theme. The objective is to provide a foundation from which to reimagine the world architecture.
War, Institutional Mutation, and the Limits of Adversarial Coexistence By: Pari Esfandiari The 2026 U.S.-Iran war has entered a new phase. The initial ceasefire has fractured under renewed military exchanges, maritime confrontation has intensified, and…
By Gregory F. Treverton and C. Bryan Gabbard (January 2026) As global competition becomes increasingly shaped by geopolitical shifts, emerging technologies, and complex interconnected risks, the U.S. Intelligence Community faces a growing challenge: moving beyond…
The looming threat of cyber-attacks on Industrial Control Systems By: Daniel Simonds "Cyber Pearl Harbor" is dramatic language because, after all, each time the United States or another country is attacked, that alerts them to…
By Jennifer Korn Will the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline change the international norms currently in place regarding nation-states and their historical hesitancy to engage in crippling infrastructure attacks? In this paper, we will explore…
Lebanon, which before its civil war stood as a symbol of what might go right in the Middle East, now stands as testimony to what can go wrong. It began to unravel in 2019, after…
Pari Esfandiari Speaking at the Virtual School of Internet Governance (VSIG)
By: Ronald A. Marks - First published at the Spy Talk Biden's new cyber czar slot threatens to add confusion to the top Sometime in early June, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee…
By: Gregory Treverton - First Published in The Hill Even by the usual Washington standards, the current debate about China is remarkably caricatured. Indeed, it says more about us than about them, and, sadly, what…
BY JOHN WALCOTT, GREGORY F. TREVERTON, AND PARI ESFANDIARI First Published at The Hill In his dialogue, Phaedrus, the Greek philosopher Plato’s King Thamus argued that rather than aiding human memory, the Egyptian god Theuth’s gift…
By: Gregory F. Treverton and Pari Esfandiari It is clear that the new Administration will be swamped in its first months by the urgent– trying to control the raging pandemic, distributing vaccines equitably, dealing with…