Writing

From the
research desk.

Analysis, argument, and original research on global risk, institutional design, and the application of advanced technology to the world's most consequential problems.

Publications

Two venues.

Subscribe to Foresight
Coming Soon
Published Work — Foresight

All writing.

European Security · Nuclear Deterrence · France · NATO
New York for Paris: The United States is a more complicated Military ally than Europe thought. Does France hold the solution?
Civil-Military Relations · AI Policy · Defense Technology
The Feud Between Trump's Pentagon and Anthropic
Institutional Design · Homeland Security · Centralization
How Homeland Security Became So Centralized
A Note on Method

All Meridian writing is based on open-source analysis, publicly available data, and original synthesis. Where sources are cited, they are named. Where positions are taken, the reasoning is made explicit. Meridian does not publish anonymously, does not accept undisclosed funding for research outputs, and does not produce advocacy dressed as analysis. The standard is the same one applied to the information environment through Cronkite: valid, reliable, valuable, and transparent.

Research Series

Ongoing threads.

Series · European Security
The Architecture of European Defense
How Europe is rearming, who is leading it, and what the French nuclear question means for the continent's strategic future. Examines the institutional, doctrinal, and industrial dimensions of European military sovereignty.
1 published · ongoing
Series · AI & Governance
Technology, Power, and Accountability
Examining the intersection of advanced AI with civil-military relations, defense procurement, and institutional governance. Who controls these systems, under what authority, and to what end.
1 published · ongoing
Series · Institutional Design
When Systems Fail and How to Fix Them
Analysis of institutional failure modes — centralization, mission creep, accountability gaps — and what better institutional design looks like in the context of modern global risk. Madisonian framework applied to contemporary challenges.
1 published · ongoing

Meridian is the independent research and applied-technology project of Mark Greenhalgh. Views, analysis, and materials published under the Meridian name are his own and do not represent the position of the U.S. Department of Defense, the Department of the Army, or any U.S. government agency or component. Meridian operates independently of his official duties.