China is increasingly a global power. Its overseas interests are vast and complex, spanning every region of the world. In many places, Beijing is leveraging new sources of strength to assert its ...

Since the end of the Cold War, the definition of international security has evolved immensely. CSIS is constantly working to engage with diverse actors and issues that present security threats in the ...

Enoh T. Ebong is president of the Global Development Department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She leads a multidisciplinary team comprised of resident staff and an ...

Conflict in Focus: Lessons from Russia-Ukraine The Conflict in Focus series examines the Russia-Ukraine War from multiple perspectives to identify implications for future warfare. Each week, a CSIS ...

CSIS Trilateral Nuclear Dialogues While the United States, Japan, and the Republic of Korea often meet bilaterally with one another, they rarely meet in a trilateral forum, officially or unofficially, ...

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 ...

Acknowledging the Russian view of the war is an important intelligence perspective. One needs to understand the enemy’s perspective to win, for sure. That said, the tone change from 2024 to 2025 is ...

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.

Introduction The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is endowed with an extensive and high-quality basket of natural resources, particularly copper and cobalt. The DRC home to some of the world’s ...

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 ...

Our Vision The world has entered a new era where grand strategy integrates human judgment with machine intelligence. As governments and policymakers increasingly rely on AI to analyze complex ...

“The U.S. possesses all components across the full AI stack, including advanced semiconductor design, frontier algorithms, and, of course, transformational applications. Now the computing power this ...