Abiola Afolayan is the author of the forthcoming book: “Becoming Girls, Women and a Movement Making a Change in Peace and Security and Rewriting Boundaries in the 21st Century, A Manifesto.” An ...

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) conducted a 1.5 day-long U.S.-China-Philippines simulation exercise on a crisis in the South China Sea in November 2015 with the generous ...

The CSIS - Korea Foundation global challengers program hosts junior scholars and graduate students from Korea to conduct advanced and policy-oriented research related to Korea at CSIS. The Center for ...

Deterrence was the linchpin of U.S. defense strategy for decades, but the political and military context for deterrence has changed significantly. Instead of a single, near-peer opponent, the U.S.

Filipinos went to the polls on May 12 for consequential midterm elections. Voters chose representatives at almost all levels, from neighborhood-level leadership posts to seats in the House of ...

On April 23, 2025, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum submitted an initiative for a new telecommunications law to the Senate. This initiative seemed to catch many off guard, as did the speed with ...

Energy in America is a project exploring the ways in which energy impacts various regions of the United States. Whether through a history rooted in the development of indigenous natural resources or ...

On May 2, 2025, the White House released a top-level fiscal year 2026 budget proposal for NASA that calls for nearly 25 percent less in funding than NASA received for fiscal year 2025. Specifically, ...

Liberation Day has come and gone. Many agree with President Trump that we should make more manufacturing goods in the United States, but simply imposing tariffs on foreign goods could have unintended ...

In the wake of high-profile trade talks in Geneva, the state of U.S.-China communication channels is in focus again. Over the course of Donald Trump’s first term as U.S. president, most of the more ...

Chairman Crapo, Ranking Member Wyden, and distinguished Members of the Committee, I am honored to share my views with you on this important topic. CSIS does not take policy positions, so the views ...

“If I told you that the West’s greatest strategic adversary was outpacing America in critical sectors like shipbuilding, hypersonic weapons, and unmanned systems… “If I told you this adversary was ...