Submissions

Our reports are meant to provide fresh insights that allow policymakers, analysts, and non-specialists to appreciate the geopolitical nuances of an issue. Beneath our content’s rational, evidence-based rhetoric is a universal, values-based approach to foreign policy analysis that prefers order over chaos and peace over conflict. Our published work privileges good governance, human rights, and peoples’ active participation in the destiny of their own society without retribution.

Works submitted for consideration must not have been submitted simultaneously to any other publication or previously published elsewhere in any language, online, or in print. They must be entirely original works, with sufficient source citations. New Lines Institute has a zero-tolerance policy toward plagiarism. The institute’s definition of plagiarism includes materials generated in part or wholly by generative AI tools. We do not publish AI-generated content because of potential intellectual property issues, factual inaccuracies, failure to address sensitive language, and other errors.  Authors are responsible for any accusations of research misconduct.

• Fill out our publication proposal and send it to [email protected].
• Team members will review your publication proposal.
• If your proposal is accepted, begin writing your draft and thinking about graphics that might benefit the piece.
• Provide a short bio and links to previous articles you’ve published.

Strategic Assessment 

The Strategic Assessment is published when issues of geopolitical significance for U.S. foreign policy arise. 1,200-1,800 words.  

Terrain Analysis 

The Terrain Analysis offers a deeper dive into issues of critical geopolitical importance. It balances crucial details with high-level analysis and forecasting to give readers a tactical understanding of a strategic issue that might be treated superficially in the media. – 2,500-3,300 words. 

Policy Report 

New Lines Policy Reports give policy planners and decision makers advice to solve policy problems. These reports focus on analysis-driven policy solutions distilled from forecasts of what would occur without intervention. 5,000-8,500 words.

Intelligence Briefing 

Our Intelligence Briefing is the vehicle for information that is hard to find or not yet publicly available but is of strategic importance. These briefings bring to light either newer aspects of issues already in play or entirely new developments. 8,500-10,000 words. 

Practitioner’s Perspective 

Occasionally, we publish thought pieces from select experts in their fields. The Practitioner’s Perspective is more than just analysis; it offers viewpoints from people whose real-world experience can import valuable understanding of a situation. 1,500-2,000 words. 

1. Contributors submit a publication proposal to [email protected] to outline key aspects of their proposed piece.  
2. If a proposal is approved, the author submits a draft of the piece for peer and structural reviews. peer review and structural review. Reviewers may make suggestions to help shape the piece and make sure it adheres to New Lines’ approach to analysis.  
3. After the author responds to the reviewers’ feedback, the submission goes to Editorial for a similarity and AI check, a two-layer edit, and, when needed, graphics and layout.  
4. Authors address each question or suggestion from the editors. Any changes made, even in response to reviewer or editor comments, are tracked. (If you are using Google Docs, ensure your changes are “Suggestions.”) 
5. The speed of the editing and copy editing process depends on the submission. The more organized and clear a piece is, and the more thorough source citations are, the smoother production will be.  
6. Authors respond to all questions or concerns  
7. After final edits, the piece is scheduled for publication. 

• State the subject and main idea of your piece up front. Readers should know immediately why they should read the rest of a piece, and the promise of that “why” should be fulfilled in the analysis. 
• Keep your writing and your point of view objective. 
• Titles should be pithy. 
• Avoid jargon and academic tone; our content is meant to be accessible to a broad audience. 
• Run spell check and grammar check, with U.S. English as the proofing language, before submitting your piece. 
• All sources must be cited – as hyperlinks for Strategic Assessments and Terrain Analyses and as footnotes for other product types. Footnotes should be formatted according to the Chicago Manual of Style. 
• Any policy recommendations given should follow from the analysis and, where possible, provide detailed steps for following those recommendations. 
• Pay attention to the recommended word count for the kind of piece you are writing.