Assessing Regional Dynamics in the Central Region

NSI applied its ViTTa methodology to better understand the strategic implications of destabilizing population dynamics in the central region. ViTTa is an expansive and established virtual network of trusted subject matter experts, unconventional thinkers, brightest minds, foreign voices, and varied perspectives to craft timely and cost effective analyses to critical and complex problems.

POC: For inquiries regarding this work, please contact Sarah Canna (scanna@nsiteam.com).

Project Team: Allison Astorino-Courtois, Ph.D.; Weston Aviles; Belinda Bragg, Ph.D.; SarahCanna; Jeff Day; Ali Jafri; Eric Kuznar; Lawrence Kuznar, Ph.D., Nicole Omundson; Sabrina Pagano Polansky, Ph.D.; Thomas Reiger; George Popp; Mariah Yager

NSI applied its Virtual Think Tank (ViTTa) methodology to better understand the strategic implications of destabilizing population dynamics in the central region. Great power interests converge in the Central Region, making it strategically important and, thus, a potential site of conflict and miscalculation in the pursuit of countervailing US, Russian, and Chinese interests. The region suffers from added drivers of instability that could intensify this competition or present opportunities for greater cooperation. USCentral Command provided 19 guiding questions covering issues related to drivers of instability in the region to include long-term internally displaced persons and refugees, spread of radical ideologies and extremism, great power competition, disruptive non-state actors, and the potential for “black swan”scenarios.

ViTTa is an expansive and established virtual network of trusted subject matter experts, unconventional thinkers, brightest minds, foreign voices, and varied perspectives to craft timely and cost effective analyses to critical and complex problems. It provides highly customizable and compelling analyses, reports, and briefings that consider varied perspectives across disciplines, challenges assumptions, provides actionable insights, and highlights areas of convergence and divergence.

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