Reports

When we talk about national security, we often focus on preventing wars, winning them, or deterring them. But security does not end when the shooting stops. What happens after a conflict can determine whether peace lasts and whether communities are actually able to recover. That is why Bryan Fok's new Security and Democracy Forum report, Balancing Livelihoods and Human Health: Limitations of Environmental Provisions in Peace Agreements (Download PDF), fits squarely within SDF

The Security and Democracy Forum was founded on a simple belief: national security and democratic institutions are not competing priorities. They are mutually reinforcing. Our national security institutions protect the freedoms that allow democracy to flourish, while our democratic institutions provide the accountability, legitimacy, and resilience that make us more secure. Advancing that conversation requires more than policy advocacy. It requires creating a forum where scho

On January 11, 2007, China destroyed one of its own satellites with a direct-ascent anti-satellite missile, demonstrating its ability to impair foreign space systems. The international community issued stern statements, but they did not implement significant consequences. As a result, more demonstrations followed. In 2019, India conducted its own anti-satellite test; then, in 2021, Russia 'killed' its own satellite: Kosmos 1408. For military strategists and policymakers, the

For too long, American policy debates have been trapped by a fundamental misconception: that we must choose between freedom and safety,...