Engaging with current decision-makers and their senior advisors and listening to our citizens, the Gold Institute for International Strategy offers fresh insights and practical solutions to both familiar and imminent problems on the world stage. Conscious of the challenge from authoritarian regimes abroad, popular disenchantment at home, and the emergence of new ideological, biological and technological threats; convinced of the fundamental validity and vitality of our complex and hard-won democracies and of their need to work closely together; the Gold Institute for International Strategy aims to promote the freedom, prosperity and security of our nations, applying western values, strategic vision, and the lessons of the past to the challenges of the future, through a tested international team of experienced political and military practitioners.