Geopolitical Risk Analysis Portfolio

NSI provides a range of analytic services (i.e., specialized, research-based technological products including analytic models, reports, and software components) to government and commercial organizations in the systematic study and assessment of how political decisions, international conflicts, regime changes, diplomatic shifts, and non-state dynamics (such as terrorism or civil unrest) impact global stability, trade, and economic markets.
Geopolitical Risk Analysis
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Strategic Assessment of the Sudan and Horn of Africa

NSI conducted a multi-model strategic analysis of the Sudan for US Central Command that addressed root causes of the humanitarian crisis, regional effects Sudan is having on the Horn of Africa, and conditions allowing Sudan to become a harbor for nefarious activity.
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Geopolitical Risk Analysis
National Security
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Stability Model (StaM) Assessments

NSI has applied its StaM conceptual framework and analytic methodology to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nigeria, West Bank, and Dhaka Bangladesh providing decision-makers with a rich contextual understanding of the social, economic and governing stability dynamics.
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Geopolitical Risk Analysis
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South Asia Fragmentation and Muddling Pathways Assessment

NSI conducted a fragmentation pathways analysis of Pakistan for the Joint Staff to determine what path it was on by creating theoretical propositions about the nature of pathways, tested these against 12 historical cases, and applied the refined pathways to Pakistan.
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Middle East Unrest and Influences

For the past several years NSI has provided US Special Operations Command Central Commander with a variety of research and analyses focused on the numerous conflicts, unrest, and the broader influences and regional dynamics of the central Middle East.
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Geopolitical Risk Analysis
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Israeli-Palestinian Security Reform

NSI participated in a collaborative review for the US Security Coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority that evaluated strategic risks and identified knowledge gaps in future security environments and their implications to Palestinian security sector reform efforts.
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Geopolitical Risk Analysis
National Security

Integrated Conflict Early Warning System (ICEWS)

NSI supported both the DARPA ICEWS as part of the Government team, and the related COMPOEX program with research, analysis, design, and development of a new simulation technology for projecting the decision dynamics of leadership groups and the impact of social influence and outside intervention on those decision dynamics.
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