Meridian Briefs
Major powers can manage rivalry through reassurance, crisis-management mechanisms, and negotiated restraint — before the next crisis makes those tools impossible to build.
The Meridian Policy Group is an independent, nonpartisan research institution. We promote policy ideas grounded in evidence and diplomacy — moving public debate away from reflexive escalation and toward pragmatic statecraft, durable institutions, and international peace. We are building a world where cooperation is the norm and conflict the exception.
“Policy made without historical perspective is policy made without a meridian.”— From the Institute's founding statement
As a research institution, we examine the consequences of unchecked strategic competition and present an alternative approach — centered on diplomacy, restraint, and institutional renewal.
Reconsidering decades of expansionist assumptions and rebuilding a strategy of disciplined, proportionate statecraft.
Developing concepts and pathways for a stable balance of power and peaceful management of cross-strait and maritime issues.
Policies that promote international peace and cooperation in Europe and Eurasia while avoiding costly new military commitments.
Working to avoid new military entanglements in a region that has been the center of external overreach for decades.
The rising power and agency of the Global South requires a fundamentally new approach by major powers.
Sanctions, tariffs, and industrial policy as tools of strategy — examining when they work, and when they backfire.
A discussion of new scholarship on the conditions that made great-power peace durable.
Polling data and analysis on what the public actually wants from international engagement.
Collections on timely topics of particular current interest.