Andrew Schwartz is the chief communications officer at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and is responsible for directing the Center’s media relations, multimedia iDeas Lab, ...

Further strikes on Fordow, potentially with U.S. support, could be imminent, but their success is just one factor that will ...

Israel’s military strikes are likely to set back Iran’s nuclear program, but much of the program will remain. Tehran's ...

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 ...

Russia has performed poorly on the battlefield in Ukraine and will likely hit the 1 million casualty mark in the summer of 2025. New CSIS data details Russia's slow rate of advance, heavy losses of ...

China is weaponizing infrastructure—dams, roads, railways, and digital—to reshape the Tibetan Plateau and coerce neighbors like India and Nepal. This report analyzes how China’s infrastructure ...

Imposing real costs on countries that take U.S. citizens hostage may not compel them to release Americans immediately. However, if properly structured and communicated, the prospect of real (but ...

On May 20, 2025, President Donald Trump held an Oval Office press conference where he provided additional detail about his administration’s concept for the “Golden Dome” missile defense initiative ...

Commentary is produced by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a private, tax-exempt institution focusing on international public policy issues. Its research is nonpartisan and ...

Japan is a long-standing champion of an open, rules-based international trading system and has pioneered the creation of regional and multilateral agreements to promote digital trade. In recent months ...

Bringing a Knife to a Drone Fight. Drones provide nonstate groups with a major asymmetric advantage against their government adversaries. While TCOs can construct rudimentary unmanned bombers using ...

On June 1, Ukraine launched drone attacks against strategic airbases across Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that the strikes—dubbed Operation “Spider’s Web”—damaged or ...