Asia-Based Student Internships

The FSI Global Policy Intern will work for about ten weeks during Summer 2025. The intern's project may include research on security challenges facing the Baltic-Nordic region, of which one of the following themes is likely:

The following themes are possible depending on the candidate's profile and interests:

• Russia’s war against Ukraine and broader threat to European and transatlantic security;
• Russia’s relations with China, Iran, North Korea and the Global South;
• Internal developments in Russia and their implications for Russia’s foreign policy;
• Strategic trends in the Asia-Pacific region;
• Emerging disruptive technologies and defense innovation;
• Cybersecurity in the current geopolitical environment.

Mentor: Stephen Kotkin
Location: Tallinn, Estonia

CAPS Unlock (Central Asian Policy Studies Unlock), is an autonomous Central Asian think-and-do-tank based in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Our work recognizes the interlocking nature of social, political, economic, and ecological developments internationally—particularly those of the wider region, Afghanistan, the Caucasus, China, Mongolia, and Russia.

Mentor: Kathryn Stoner
Location: Almaty, Kazakhstan