International Programs

Building on the staff's longstanding expertise in U.S.-Russian relations, the institute's visionary International Programs began with a satellite office in Moscow. Since then, the World Security Institute has extended its presence to Brussels, Belgium, and Beijing, China. These operations, along with programs concentrating on security challenges in areas such as the Caucasus, European Union, and Cuba, provide vital access to information and people around the world.

The Brussels office continues to follow and analyze the security policies of the European Union and its individual member states, and serves as a source of defense expertise to media and decision-makers in EU institutions, EU member states, and the United States. The Brussels office advises members of the European Parliament, the European Commission and the Council of the European Union on external security-related matters.
     Mark Burgess, Director

In an effort to address the issue of regional integration and foster mutual trust among the three South Caucasus republics, the World Security Institute, in collaboration with the Washington University in St. Louis, established the WSI Caucasus Project. This is a comprehensive multidisciplinary initiative that aims to defeat the barriers preventing Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia from cooperating and to help build bridges of tolerance and understanding between the communities of these three states. The WSI Caucasus Project is an effort to establish citizen-to-citizen contacts among neighboring, and in many instances rival countries, by harnessing the energies of the progressive young generation.
     Lilit Petrosyan, Director

In 2004, WSI successfully launched a new effort dedicated to promoting research and dialogue between China and the United States on a range of traditional and non-traditional security issues that deeply impact this crucial relationship. The China program presently focuses on a number of core projects: China - U.S. Dialogue on Space, China’s Energy Security: New Approaches, Media and Policy: Challenges for China and the U.S., and Europe, China and the U.S.: Trialogue on Comprehensive Security. The China Program now has a full-time staff member in Beijing along with a number of part time writers and researchers in China and the United States.
     Eric Hagt, Director

As the first international outpost, the WSI Moscow office is working to expand upon the organization's long-standing expertise in U.S.-Russian relations through information exchange, and to provide a source of independent information and security affairs in Moscow.
     Ivan Safranchuk, Director

     Nikolai Zlobin, Director and Senior Fellow

Each year, a delegation of U.S. military experts meets with Cuban military and political officials in Havana to explore ways the two countries might cooperate on regional security concerns.
     Glenn Baker, Director