Russia has performed poorly on the battlefield in Ukraine and will likely hit the 1 million casualty mark in the summer of ...

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) conducted a 1.5 day-long U.S.-China-Philippines simulation exercise on a crisis in the South China Sea in November 2015 with the generous ...

The CSIS Hostage Commission launches its findings on the rise of hostage-taking and wrongful detention. Join executive directors Jon Alterman and Jason Rezaian, along with key stakeholders, to discuss ...

Ryan C. Berg is director of the Americas Program and head of the Future of Venezuela Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is also an adjunct professor at the Catholic ...

Emily Harding is director of the Intelligence, National Security, and Technology (INT) Program and vice president of the Defense and Security Department (DSD) at the Center for Strategic and ...

Welcome to the 2025 Space Threat Assessment by the Aerospace Security Project. This resource for policymakers and the public leverages open-source information to assess key developments in foreign ...

The positive economic impact of retaining these international, U.S.-trained STEM graduates is significant. Even while still in training, each foreign-born STEM worker and PhD student contributes ...

China’s lead in the global commercial shipbuilding market is huge and growing. The country’s largest state-owned shipbuilder built more commercial vessels by tonnage in 2024 than the entire U.S.

Seth G. Jones is president of the Defense and Security Department and Harold Brown Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He focuses on defense strategy, military ...

Jon B. Alterman holds the Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Prior to joining CSIS in 2002, he served as a ...

On April 21, the United Nations projected that because of Covid-19, the number of people facing severe food insecurity worldwide could double to 265 million. The same week, in the United States, the ...

This digital series—featuring scholars from CSIS Futures Lab and AI evaluation experts from Scale AI—explores how large language models approach critical foreign policy decision-making scenarios. This ...