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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
Alexandria, Virginia Alexandria is an independent city in the northern region of the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. It lies on the western bank of the Potomac River approximately south of downtown Washington, D.C. In 2020, the population was 159,467. ...
, 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 *
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 part ...
* Glenn R. Simpson


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Foreign policy and strategy think tanks in the United States Political and economic think tanks in the United States Security studies Think tanks established in 2004 Organizations based in Alexandria, Virginia 2004 establishments in the United States {{US-org-stub