U.S. and Israeli strikes imposed significant damage on Iran’s nuclear sites but failed to eliminate its program. The fate of Tehran’s nuclear ambitions now rests on a political decision, creating a ...

Can commercial diplomacy work without corresponding good governance efforts? Corruption, labor rights violations, and general poor governance impede business operations. Who will help improve ...

Trump sent nuclear submarines closer to Russia following a week of social media clashes with the former Russian president, while his envoy heads to Moscow to broker a ceasefire before the deadline.

CSIS Americas director Ryan C. Berg and Henry Ziemer analyze the findings of a exercise simulating China-Russia cooperation in Latin America's media environment.

A recent CSIS report argues that an associational model of benchmarking can be a useful tool in AI governance. By integrating stakeholders across private and public sectors, as well as civil society, ...

The report presents a quantitative evaluation of 10 countries to determine their potential as commercially viable rare earth processing hubs, using 10 assessment criteria. It identifies the U.S., ...

A Chinese blockade of Taiwan could see the greatest naval battles since World War II. Twenty-six wargames illustrated the risks to China, Taiwan, Japan, and the United States that would ensue.

On July 30, 2025, as the world’s largest infrastructure deal teetered on the brink of collapse, Panama’s Comptroller General Anel Flores walked into the Supreme Court and filed two lawsuits that ...

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), in partnership with the Cyber Solarium Commission 2.0 (CSC 2.0) project at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), today launched ...

Russia believes that it does not have to outproduce Ukraine and its backers or outfight the Ukrainian military if it can outlast U.S. interest in the conflict. In short, Russia believes that its road ...

The United States is broadly considered the current world leader in carbon management, with enough installed capacity to capture over 20 million metric tons per year (Mtpa)—nearly half of the global ...

A New Framework Takes Shape Over the past few weeks, the administration has announced framework agreements with the United Kingdom, China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Japan, and, most recently, the European ...