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The Next Decade: What Victory Looks Like, and How to Get There
Strategy without a clear definition of success is not truly strategy; it is merely activity.
 • Bala Selvam
Financing the Future: How Public and Private Capital Can Win the Eurasian Investment Race
The most common objection to ambitious American engagement in Eurasia is financial.
 • Bala Selvam
The Central Asian Pivot: Why the Heart of Eurasia Matters More Than You Think
Central Asia does not appear on most Americans' mental maps of strategic competition.
 • Bala Selvam
Engaging the Estranged: Iran and the Diplomacy of Incremental Possibility
Iran is not a peripheral problem for American Eurasian strategy.
 • Bala Selvam
The Russia Problem: Managing Moscow Without Surrendering the Field
Russia presents the American Eurasian strategy with a defining paradox.
 • Bala Selvam
The China Question: Competing Without Catastrophe
Every strategy for American engagement in Eurasia eventually runs into the same constraint: China is already there, deeply embedded in the economic…
 • Bala Selvam
The Trade Architecture: Building Economic Frameworks That Work Across Eurasia
Free trade agreements are not what they used to be.
 • Bala Selvam
The Mineral Imperative: Securing Critical Supply Chains Through Eurasian Partnerships
The electric vehicle in your driveway and the precision-guided munition in an American arsenal have more in common than their engineering.
 • Bala Selvam
Corridors of Power: The Physical Infrastructure of U.S. Influence in Eurasia
Infrastructure is patient.
 • Bala Selvam
The Tech Prosperity Network: Building America's Co-Innovation Architecture Across Eurasia
The most underappreciated fact in American technology strategy is that the United States does not need to build the world's dominant technology…
 • Bala Selvam
Mapping the Chessboard: America's Allies and Partners Across Eurasia
Strategy without a map is just ambition.
 • Bala Selvam
The Eurasian Gambit: Why the World's Biggest Landmass Is America's Most Important Battlefield
There is a tendency in American strategic discourse to treat the Indo-Pacific as a maritime problem.
 • Bala Selvam
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