The Alliance Futures Initiative

Rigorous Analysis of Alliance Dynamics and Futures

TAFI produces insights that help policymakers, strategists, and practitioners understand how alliances function—what sustains them, what strains them, and how they adapt to changing circumstances.

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Understanding Alliance Systems in a Changing World

We examine how technological disruption, power transitions, economic stress, and demographic shifts reshape alliance requirements and capabilities—providing actionable insights for the challenges ahead.

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Alliance Dynamics

Studying the benefits states seek from present and future alliance systems, and how architectures distribute benefits and burdens among members.

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Partnership Analysis

Understanding factors that drive cohesion or fragmentation in multilateral partnerships, and which policy approaches succeed in specific contexts.

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Future Scenarios

Examining how technological disruption, power transitions, economic stress, and demographic shifts reshape alliance requirements and capabilities.

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Regional Focus

Concentrated expertise on the Indo-Pacific where alliance architecture evolves rapidly and partnership models carry strategic consequences.

Strategic Knowledge Domains

Our research spans critical regions and emerging challenges in the global alliance landscape, with particular emphasis on the Indo-Pacific theater.

Indo-Pacific Strategy US Alliances AUKUS China Competition Transatlantic Partnership Economic Governance AI Infrastructure Defense Technology Strategic Planning Policy Analysis

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Leadership Driving Our Mission

Meet the experts behind TAFI's rigorous analysis of alliance dynamics and strategic partnerships.

Staff

Greg Brown

Greg Brown

Executive Director

Eric Lies

Eric Lies

Associate Director

Jonah Bock

Jonah Bock

Assistant Director for Research

Leah Markworth

Leah Markworth

Research Analyst

Fellows

Nishank Motwani

Nishank Motwani

Senior Fellow

Jackie Gibson

Jackie Gibson

Oklahoma Fellow

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