RESEARCH AREAS
Geopolitical and Strategic Issues: This area encompasses the macro-strategic issues affecting the states in the region, bilateral strategic issues between the states or the U.S. and a South Asian nation, and finally broader geopolitical issues within Asia. It includes such issues as the India-Pakistan conflict and the U.S.-India strategic relationship.
Energy and Environment: This work (housed in the Energy Technology Innovation Policy (ETIP) project) works to determine and then seek to promote adoption of effective strategies for developing and deploying cleaner and more efficient energy technologies (focused on India, China and the U.S.). Researchers seek to identify and promote strategies that the countries can pursue, separately and collaboratively, for accelerating the development and deployment of advanced energy options that can reduce conventional air pollution, minimize future greenhouse-gas emissions, reduce dependence on oil, facilitate poverty alleviation, and promote economic development. The research on India focuses on the energy-related challenges of the transportation and electricity sectors, and thus on technological change in the vehicle and electricity sectors. The work also concentrates on biomass gasification given that as much as one-third of India's primary energy comes from traditional biomass energy sources.
Nuclear and Nonproliferation: This work (housed in the Managing the Atom (MTA) project) brings together scholars and practitioners who conduct policy-relevant research on key issues affecting the future of nuclear weapons, the nuclear nonproliferation regime, and nuclear energy - particularly where these futures intersect. Current research focuses in three main areas:
- reducing the risk of nuclear and radiological terrorism
- stopping the spread and reducing the number of nuclearweapons
- improving the safety and security of nuclear energy
