The International Assessment and Strategy Center is a

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whose declared purpose is to analyze "medium and long-term security issues and their impact on the security of the United States and her key interests and allies." Headquartered in

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, the Center undertakes both open source and classified work on behalf of United States government agencies, and non-governmental organizations. Officially

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, the Center's policy orientation has been generally geared toward a "robust national security posture".

Current and former staff

* Jeffrey Breinholt * Kenneth E. deGraffenreid *

Douglas Farah Douglas Farah is an American journalist, author and national security consultant. Farah served as United Press International bureau chief in El Salvador from 1985 to 1987, and a freelance journalist for ''The Washington Post'', ''Newsweek'', and ...

Arthur Waldron Arthur Waldron (born December 13, 1948) is an American historian. Since 1997, Waldron has been the Lauder Professor of International Relations in the department of history at the University of Pennsylvania. He works chiefly on Asia, China in parti ...

Glenn R. Simpson Glenn Richard Simpson (born 1964) is an American former journalist who worked for ''The Wall Street Journal'' until 2009, and then co-founded the Washington-based research business Fusion GPS. He was also a senior fellow at the International Asse ...

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