The Emeritus Chair in Strategy is affiliated with the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, which was established and endowed in honor of CSIS’s first director and cofounder, Admiral Arleigh A. Burke.

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Office of the Korea Chair together with The Korea Foundation established the CSIS - Korea Foundation Global Challengers Program to promote and ...

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 ...

Please join the Impossible State podcast for a discussion on President Lee Jae-myung’s new government and his debut at the G7 Summit. The conversation will be moderated by Dr. Victor Cha and will ...

As the U.S. Army approaches its 250th anniversary, a generational transformation is underway. Next Army, a CSIS Futures Lab project, examines how technological disruption, evolving threat environments ...

In order to achieve its stated objective of dismantling Iran’s nuclear program, Israel will need to take out a key Iranian facility, the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant. Fordow is buried deep under a ...

As described in the Space Warfighting framework released by the U.S. Space Force in April 2025, counterspace capabilities give U.S. military commanders a suite of combat options having attributes that ...

Women and girls in Africa are at escalated risk of violence, exploitation, poverty, and HIV infection, due to the Trump administration’s abrupt shuttering of more than 80 percent of the United States ...

Policy Implications: Beyond the Binary Africa’s democratic trajectory has been marked by both progress and setbacks over the past few decades. Indeed, the trends remain troubling, with only 7 percent ...

Please join the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program for an online-only event discussing the team's latest report, The Russian Wartime Economy: From Sugar High to Hangover. Max Bergmann and Maria ...

Join the CSIS Middle East Program to discuss the implications of the conflict between Israel and Iran on Tuesday, June 17, from 4:00 to 5:00pm EDT, in collaboration with the CSIS Defense and Security ...

Thus far, Israeli strikes on Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility have been limited. At first glance, this might seem like a curious omission, given that Israel’s justification for the strikes was, “If not ...