International Security Seminar 2025
This seminar emerges – by design – from a collaboration between policy professionals, academics, and military leaders. It represents 14 topic-driven, transdisciplinary working groups, assembled from across professions, geographies, and nationalities. These working groups continue to function, and we hope they will be a resource for national and international leaders seeking to better understand critical economic, political, social, and technological questions at the heart of strategy.
This volume captures the work of over 300 professionals seeking to support and inform the joint, interagency, and multinational policy community at a time of significant uncertainty in the international system.
It is the fourth such report, of what we hope will be many more. The first report was prepared in support of the initial drafting of the 2022 NATO Strategic Concept by Secretary General Stoltenberg’s Policy Planning Unit, led by Dr. Benedetta Berti, to whom we are immensely grateful for the impetus to create these working groups. We are also grateful for the contribution of the late, great, Bear Braumoeller, whose mentorship and support helped bring this seminar to life.