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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Babel: Translating the Middle East

U.S. Power and Influence in the Middle East: Part One

Jon takes a closer look at how the United States responded to the 9/11 attacks by deepening its involvement in the Middle East, how its role in the region has changed, and how some people think it needs to change a lot more. 

Podcast Episode by Jon B. Alterman — March 8, 2022

CSIS Babel

Online Book Event: H.R. McMaster: Battlegrounds

Please join us for a discussion with former National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster on the strategic challenges the United States confronts and the need to restore strategic competence to American statecraft.

Event — October 8, 2020

Becoming a Chinese Client State: The Case of Serbia

This CSIS report examines Chinese economic activities in Serbia to shed light on China’s political and economic objectives, its mechanisms for influence, and the implications of its activities, including a second wave of digital infrastructure projects.

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

The pandemic threatens to disrupt world order. What comes next? Looking across four centuries of upheaval, historians offer their insights. History suggests that if America and its allies cannot adapt, others will be waiting to build a new order in their own likeness.

Report by Seth Center and Emma Bates — September 2, 2020

Online Event: The New China Rules

Please join the Project on History and Strategy for a discussion of the "new China rules" as described by Michael Auslin in his new book, Asia's New Geopolitics.

Event — August 5, 2020

Book Talk: The Great Rift

Please join Seth Center and the Project on History and Strategy for a discussion with James Mann about his new book on the intertwined careers of Dick Cheney and Colin Powell.

Event — February 6, 2020

The U.S. Army History of the Iraq War

Please join CSIS for a discussion of the U.S. Army’s recently published and long-awaited two volume history, The U.S. Army in the Iraq War, 2003-2011. The authors will outline key findings from major episodes in the war and discuss the implications for today.

Event — May 13, 2019