Strategic Alliance Program

Strategic Alliances have taken on heightened importance in light of the on-going conflict in Ukraine, the rising strategic threat from China, how an emboldened Islamic Republic of Iran continues to fuel the Middle East tinder-box, and the persistence of the international terrorist threat.

Since its inception in 2019, the GIIS has prided itself as a leading organization in Washington, DC devoted to key, but poorly understood and underdeveloped aspects of U.S. foreign policy. This includes foremost the two vital topics of professionalizing the crafting and execution of U.S. national security strategy and alliance strategy. Because of this two-pronged focus, it is crucial for the GIIS to devote resources to the theme of strategic alliances and partnerships between key counterparts the world over. While the West has, so far, managed a fairly united front regarding these various concerns, many of our assumed allies have taken a more nuanced approach.

Collaborative Net Assessment with U.S. Allies and Partners

GIIS employs net assessment — a discipline pioneered in the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment to inform strategies for competing with America’s adversaries — in a unique way: Turning the practices of net assessment on their head to inform the strategic logic of U.S. alliances and partners.

Over the past year, GIIS has led several groundbreaking collaborative net assessment initiatives that have injected more strategic logic into America’s alliances and partnerships with key nations and states around the world, vastly enabling them to “punch above their weight” in the conduct of their foreign affairs.

Administrative State Accountability Project (ASAP)

Institute staff have unparalleled knowledge and experience with the tactics, techniques and procedures employed by the Administrative State (aka the federal bureaucracy) to subvert governmental processes for the purpose of advancing partisan, political and ideological agendas antithetical to the U.S. national interest.

Since its inception in 2018, GIIS has made cataloguing the means by which the Administrative State abuses its authority, and constructing counter strategies to prevent such subversion, a central part of our research agenda. Working with Western Governments to professionalize the crafting and execution of a practical and implementable national security strategy.

Law Enforcement Strategic Policy and Policing

Providing law enforcement, both here and abroad, with proactive policing policies relating to combating anti-Semitism and other emerging threats.

Iran Liberation Project

GIIS fully supports the freedom-loving people of Iran, not the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran. This past year we have led the Iran Liberation Project which employs powerful, but indirect, means to undermine the regime and embolden the people.

Media

Gold Institute for International Strategy media fellows provided a perspective separating truth from fiction in the foreign policy and defense arenas.