Join the CSIS Defense and Security Department for its annual flagship conference, the 2025 Global Security Forum. This year's Forum will focus on the theme, Strength Through the Storm: Industry ...

CSIS’s Global Development Department is dedicated to strengthening U.S. national security and global stability through policies that advance human wellbeing and economic opportunity. Our scholars ...

China's strategic relationship with Central Asia has grown expansively over the past decade, symbolized by both the 1996 founding of the "Shanghai Five," which in June 2001 became the Shanghai ...

As tensions continue to rise between the U.S. and China over reciprocal tariffs and geopolitical competition, what do we need to know about the trade war and the next phase of U.S.-China tensions?

This is the first installment in a five-part series providing data-driven analysis and recommendations to strengthen U.S.-Africa collaboration in the critical minerals sector. Africa has been ...

The Human Trafficking and Peacekeeping Operations Project strives to secure the implementation of existing antitrafficking policies adopted by the Department of Defense, NATO, and the United Nations ...

Zinc ranks as the fourth-most widely used metal worldwide. In addition to its primary application in steel galvanization, refin­ing zinc also produces gallium and germanium—key inputs for advanced ...

The Russia-Ukraine war has emerged as a watershed moment in modern military history, fundamentally reshaping our understanding of contemporary warfare. This white paper analyzes five transformative ...

Ben Jensen testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet regarding the role of trade secret protection in the ...

The advent of AI technology has unleashed a global race that is both commercial and geopolitical in nature. Private firms are staking out positions in the AI value chain and seeking to secure market ...

As the Group of Seven (G7) prepares to hold its 51st Summit in June 2025 in Kananaskis, Canada, critical mineral security is poised to be a major topic of discussion. All G7 nations (Canada, France, ...

On Wednesday, April 30, 2025, the United States and Ukraine signed a long-awaited deal to establish a joint investment fund for the reconstruction of Ukraine. The fund will be capitalized, in part, by ...