Brzezinski Institute on Geostrategy
The Brzezinski Institute examines the unique interaction of history, geography, and strategy, with a goal of developing policy-relevant analysis and recommendations
The mission of the Brzezinski Institute on Geostrategy is to examine the unique interaction of history, geography, and strategy, with a goal of developing policy-relevant analysis and recommendations. Geostrategy incorporates both geopolitics and historically rooted national impulses in the formulation of prescriptive long-term geostrategies. The Institute seeks to further the study of geostrategy and to inspire a new generation of strategic policy thinkers in the United States and abroad.
Institute Projects
The Brzezinski Institute supports projects focusing on geostrategy, with the goal of developing policy-relevant analysis and recommendations. The choice of the term geostrategy is deliberate. Reaching beyond traditional geopolitics, geostrategy includes the cumulative role of history, of the effects of global political awakening, and of the dramatic transformation in the nature of warfare in the shaping of comprehensive national security policy.
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Chaos, Power, and Diplomacy: What Kissinger and Trump Teach Us About World Order
Podcast Episode by Jon B. Alterman — January 28, 2025

Chaos, Power, and Diplomacy: What Kissinger and Trump Teach Us About World Order
Commentary by Jon B. Alterman — January 27, 2025
U.S. Power and Influence in the Middle East: Part One
Podcast Episode by Jon B. Alterman — March 8, 2022

Three Political Crises Drove the Gaza Violence
Commentary by Jon B. Alterman — May 25, 2021
Online Book Event: H.R. McMaster: Battlegrounds
Event — October 8, 2020
Becoming a Chinese Client State: The Case of Serbia
Report by Donatienne Ruy, Heather A. Conley, Jonathan E. Hillman, and Maesea McCalpin — September 24, 2020
After Disruption: Historical Perspectives on the Future of International Order
Report by Seth Center and Emma Bates — September 2, 2020
Online Event: The New China Rules
Event — August 5, 2020
Making the Most of a Crisis: What Sputnik Should Have Taught Us
Report by Emma Bates — May 19, 2020
Book Talk: The Great Rift
Event — February 6, 2020