The Council’s work is centered on the conviction that international cooperation is the most effective method to confront the global challenges of the 21st century, because it is built on a foundation of shared concepts, frames of reference, and fundamental understanding. The Council examines U.S. relationships with allies and adversaries in an effort to build consensus around policies that contribute to a more stable, secure and well-governed world.
Its work focuses on the development of key recommendations to 21st century long-term political, economic, security and strategic needs for the United States and key European and Asian allies.
Projects
British-North American Committee — a group of leaders from business, labor, and academia in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada committed to constructive relations among the three countries and their citizens.
Building Better Regulatory Cooperation — examines the problems both U.S. and EU companies face in coping with security and privacy regulations.
China, the United States and Global Energy Security — seeks to foster a common approach to energy security that maintains adequate energy supplies, open access to energy resources, and low energy prices, while also encouraging development and expanded use of new and renewable energy resources.
Combatant Commanders Seminar Series — regular briefings by the Combatant Commanders of the unified and specified commands to discuss current challenges and potential future threats within their areas of responsibility.
Cooperation between Russia and the West — an ongoing effort to analyze and address the potential for cooperation between Russia and “the West,” as well as among the transatlantic community vis-ŕ-vis Russia.
Cross-Strait Seminar Series — addresses critical issues in cross-Strait relations in a timely manner to provide insights to policy-makers and the foreign policy community in Washington.
Global Futures and Implications for U.S. Basing — examines the geopolitical context that will likely frame the security environment of the next 20 to 40 years, and to identify the implications for the U.S. overseas basing network.
A Marshall Plan for Energy and Water Supply — develops recommendations to help meet developing countries’ economic development needs through the increased flow of capital, technology and know-how in the energy and water supply sectors.
NATO – EU Relations — an assessment of NATO -EU relations and the prospects for future cooperation, including trips by small delegations of U.S. defense experts and former military officials to Europe for intense discussions with NATO and EU officials.
Reversing Relations with Adversaries — considers the nature of bilateral relationships between the United States and current adversaries and then prepares the U.S. government for the process of “reversing” its relations with them.
Senior Fellows Seminar Series — weekly discussions of wide-ranging economic and security issues, which provide a forum to examine how other governments and societies think about specific issues and how they might respond to international and domestic developments.
Strategic Regional Assessments — evaluates both the strategic importance of particular regions and the challenges they are likely to pose over the next decade, while discerning case-specific strategies for the realization of U.S. goals.
Strengthening U.S. Security Alliances — while international alliances have long been the bedrock of U.S. security, growing threats to that security present difficult challenges for traditional approaches to military alliances.
Transatlantic Approaches to International Law — explores the nature and extent of actual U.S. and European differences over legal issues and the broader topic of the role of the international legal system and its major institutions.
U.S.-China Cooperation — aims at developing active cooperation between the United States and China on regional and global issues of strategic importance to both countries, and to other countries in Asia, including Taiwan.
U.S.-China Cooperation on Failing States — assesses long-term commitments and cooperative measures by the globalizing states, notably China, to contain the immediate dangers and to move these states into the category of successful states contributing to economic growth and international stability.
The United States-Japan Energy Policy Dialogue — has met regularly since 1981 to promote networking and exchange of ideas among energy decision-makers in both countries.
U.S.-Japanese-Chinese-Indian Cooperation to Promote Clean Air in China and India — a quadripartite cooperative project to foster economic and energy policies in China and India to promote clean air.
U.S.-Ukraine Policy Dialogue Exchange Program — one of four working groups within the U.S.-Ukraine Policy Dialogue Exchange Program which brings together Ukrainian and U.S. think tanks to work on issues facing Ukraine during its ongoing transition to democracy.
