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 ...

Applicants must be between 25-40 years old at the time of the Young Pacific Leaders (YPL) Workshop on Regional Security. Applicants must be a citizen and current resident of one of the YPL countries: ...

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 ...

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Commission on Hostage Taking and Wrongful Detention explores responses to the growing phenomenon of hostage taking. Over the last year, 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 ...

Japan and the United States have conducted strategic dialogues on energy cooperation for decades, and the two nations are increasingly aligned on the importance of cooperating along the clean energy ...

Benjamin Jensen is director of the Futures Lab and a senior fellow for the Defense and Security Department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). At CSIS, Dr. Jensen leads ...

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 ...

There have been different accounts from the administration on how reciprocity is going to be calculated. The initial idea was outlined in the February 13, 2025, presidential memorandum directing the ...

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.

Resetting the United States’ Focus on Congolese Mining There is now a unique window of opportunity to build U.S.-DRC minerals cooperation, for two emerging reasons. First, the intensifying conflict ...

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 ...