Benchmarking and evaluating AI requires a bottom-up, associational model of governance that emphasizes accountability, transparency, and the public interest to ensure that the technology furthers ...

The creation of an autonomous Kachin State would mark a significant milestone in Myanmar’s revolutionary struggle.

Affordable mass has become the watchword of defense modernization, be it swarms of drones or satellite constellations. What could such an approach mean for air and missile defense? Networks of passive ...

The CSIS Missile Defense Project is pleased to rollout our new report, Mesh Sensing for Air and Missile Defense.

On July 20, Japanese voters cast their ballots in a pivotal upper house election. In this analysis, the CSIS Japan Chair unpacks key outcomes, the issues that shaped voter decisions, and the broader ...

On April 24, President Trump announced an executive order to pursue the exploration and exploitation of deep-sea minerals within the outer continental shelf as well as in areas beyond national ...

Introduction On April 2, 2025—a date President Trump proclaimed “Liberation Day”—the administration announced the most sweeping tariff hike since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, the 1930 law best ...

Since January 2025, a series of attacks have targeted Tesla facilities and vehicles across the United States, bringing renewed attention to a long-standing debate among policymakers, scholars, and law ...

The Trump-Zelensky meeting ended disastrously, with the future of U.S. aid in doubt. Yet, Ukraine needs a steady flow of weapons, munitions, and supplies to continue its resistance, and Zelensky has ...

As President Donald Trump begins his second term in the White House, he has made his position on Greenland perfectly clear. In recent statements, Trump has refused to rule out taking Greenland by ...

On November 14, the European Union published the first draft of its landmark Code of Practice for General-Purpose AI models. Former coauthor of the EU AI Act and CSIS senior fellow Laura Caroli ...

A new Administration and Congress are set to take office in January 2025. Securing critical minerals supply chains to reduce reliance on China is a top challenge for incoming policymakers. The ...