With a rapidly changing and evolving global security environment, CSIS provides up-to-date analysis and policy recommendations on national and collective responses to global and regional risks ...

Congress and the White House face a host of fiscal challenges over the course of 2025 that will impact U.S. defense spending. Congress has yet to appropriate funding for fiscal year (FY) 2025 as the ...

The CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 (CHIPS Act) was critically important for halting and reversing the erosion of U.S. semiconductor manufacturing capability and ensuring the security of the domestic ...

On January 20, 2025, Chinese AI company DeepSeek released its R1 reasoning model, causing U.S. policymakers and technologists to dramatically reevaluate their assumptions about the state of the ...

On February 10, President Trump announced plans to impose a 25 percent tariff on all steel and aluminum imports, set to take effect on March 12. Sound familiar? If these tariffs actually go into place ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order (EO) on an “Iron Dome for America” has caused a buzz across the defense community. But what does an “Iron Dome for America” actually mean? Please join the CSIS ...

Jon Alterman: Who is active promoting disinformation in the Middle East, and how are they doing it? Alessandro Accorsi: In terms of actors, there are several. There are regional actors. There are ...

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has had an immense human cost, producing a level of physical destruction, human suffering, and displacement not seen in Europe since World War ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Washington, D.C., this week and met President Donald Trump on February 13. The two leaders reaffirmed the importance of this blossoming strategic ...

A host of issues confront President Claudia Sheinbaum as she settles into Mexico’s highest office. From the future of security policy to nearshoring questions and tariff threats—not to mention the ...

The Paris AI Action Summit took place on February 10–11, following the UK AI Safety Summit (November 1–2, 2023) and the AI Seoul Summit (May 21–22, 2024). It was the most anticipated international ...

An hour or so after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, Senator Marco Rubio was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to be Secretary of State in the new administration. Unlike many other Trump ...