Research & Analysis
Four Programs. One Analytical Framework.
CEE's research is organized around four programs that can operate independently or in combination — designed to merge, split, or expand as the analytical agenda evolves.
Research Programs
Geoeconomics & Defense
The intersection of economic and security policy is where the most consequential decisions are made — and where the analytical gap is widest. CEE's Geoeconomics & Defense program studies strategic competition, supply chain security, critical minerals, and the economic dimensions of defense relationships.
Development Economics
Sovereign growth models, structural transformation, fiscal policy, and the political economy of development in frontier markets. CEE's Development Economics program examines the choices that determine whether emerging economies converge with or diverge from global income levels.
Sovereign Finance
Debt structures, capital market access, risk pricing, and the financial architecture of emerging economies. CEE's Sovereign Finance program tracks debt sustainability, restructuring dynamics, and the evolving creditor landscape in frontier markets.
Natural Resources Policy
Resource governance, extractive industry policy, and the path to Western critical elements dominance through frontier economies. CEE's Natural Resources program bridges the gap between geology and geopolitics.
Cross-Program Themes
The Connective Tissue
Several analytical themes cut across all four programs. These cross-program themes signal CEE's coherent intellectual framework — and provide the natural pivot points for merging or restructuring programs as the agenda evolves.
Latest Work