General Michael Hayden is a retired four-star general who served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) when the course of world events was ...

Jon Alterman speaks with Marsin Alshamary and Hamzeh Hadad to mark the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Prime Minister Kishida Fumio of Japan made a surprise visit to Kyiv on March 21 in a show of support for Ukraine. The CSIS ...

Xi Putin Summit. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping held more than four hours of talks in Moscow ...

The military turbofan engine market proliferates technology nations like China need to build modern jet engines to compete with the United States. This brief explores China’s push to modernize its ...

The inclusion of civil society leaders in the second Summit for Democracy sends a vitally important message about how democracies are built and sustained and provides an opportunity to meaningfully ...

In a groundbreaking study of China’s economic coercion, the CSIS Economics Program finds China’s tactics ineffective and proposes a counterstrategy based on the logic of deterrence by denial to ...

Drought, migration, and state fragility challenges are increasing Iraq’s risk of crisis, leading local and international ...

What does the March 17 International Criminal Court arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin mean for justice in Ukraine?

In 2022, the European Trilateral Track 2 Nuclear Dialogues convened senior nuclear policy experts from the United Kingdom, ...

The Russia and Eurasia Program offers analysis of rapid economic change in Russia and the consequences for U.S. policy. There is no aspect of contemporary Russia that has changed more rapidly and ...

Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS or the “Organization for the Liberation of the Levant”) traces its beginnings to the outset of the Syrian civil war and has remained a dangerous opposition force throughout ...