Center For Strategic International Studies: 249 books

Cover of Southeast Asia's Geopolitical Centrality and the U.S.-Japan Alliance
by Ernest Z. Bower, Murray Hiebert, Phuong Nguyen
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015

Building on a careful analysis of Southeast Asia’s recent history, politics, economics, and place within the Asia Pacific, this report looks forward two decades to anticipate the development of trends in the region and how they will impact the U.S.-Japan alliance. How will Southeast Asian states...
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Pathways to Productivity

The Role of GMOs for Food Security in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda

by Kristin Wedding, Johanna Nesseth Tuttle
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013

This report provides an overview of the debate in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda over genetically modified (GM) crops and their potential role in improving food security among smallholder farmers. Specifically, in each country, it examines regulatory structures, science and research capacity, communication...
Cover of U.S.-Canadian Defense Industrial Cooperation
by Kristina Obecny, Gregory Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017

This study evaluates the health of the U.S.-Canadian defense industrial relationship, which is critically important as the U.S. Department of Defense expands the national technology and industrial base. The CSIS study team gathered and analyzed a wide range of quantitative data and conducted interviews...
Cover of Escalation and Deterrence in the Second Space Age
by Todd Harrison, Zack Cooper, Kaitlyn Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017

On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first human-made object to orbit the Earth. Six decades later, space-faring nations face a much different space environment, one that’s more diverse, disruptive, disordered, and dangerous. Today’s space domain presents a number of asymmetries...
Cover of Structure and Dynamics of the U.S. Federal Services Industrial Base, 2000-2012
by Gregory Sanders, Jesse Ellman
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013

In a time of austerity, the U.S. government’s reliance on the private sector for a range of services has declined for two consecutive years. Even so, real services contract spending in 2012 remains more than 80 percent above the level in 2000. The CSIS Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group brings...
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Defense Acquisition Trends, 2015

Acquisition in the Era of Budgetary Constraints

by Jesse Ellman, Andrew P. Hunter, Rhys McCormick
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016

This study examines contracting trends at the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). It relies on empirical analysis of DoD contracting transaction data from the open-source Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS). The authors seek to identify and study emergent trends in the contracting data and marry that analysis with discussion of changing goals and methods for the larger acquisition system.
Cover of U.S. Department of Defense Contract Spending and the Industrial Base, 2000-2013
by Jesse Ellman, Gregory Sanders, Rhys McCormick
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014

This report analyzes contracting for products, services, and research & development (R&D) by the Department of Defense (DoD) and its key components. In provides an in-depth look at trends in DoD contracting since 2000, and provides an initial picture of the impact that sequestration has had...
Cover of Use of Incentives in Performance-Based Logistics Contracting
by Gregory Sanders, Jesse Ellman
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018

Traditional contracting is primarily transactional, rewarding contractors when deliveries are made or certain process milestones are met. Performance-Based Logistic (PBL) contracting seeks to base contractor incentives on ongoing performance measures to achieve reliability and cost savings. Key to...
Cover of Evaluating Consolidation and the Threat of Monopolies within Industrial Sectors
by Andrew P. Hunter, Gregory Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019

Economics scholars and policymakers have rung alarm bells about the increasing threat of consolidation within industrial sectors. This paper examines the importance of industrial concentration in U.S. defense acquisition in two ways: first, a direct relationship between concentration and performance...
Cover of Leveraging the Internet of Things for a More Efficient and Effective Military
by William A. Carter, Denise E. Zheng
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015

The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming the way organizations communicate, collaborate, and coordinate everyday business and industrial processes. Adoption of IoT technologies has proven beneficial to organizations that manage large numbers of assets and coordinate complex and distributed processes....
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Citizen-Soldiers in a Time of Transition

The Future of the U.S. Army National Guard

by Stephanie Sanok Kostro
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014

This report provides policymakers and practitioners with objective insights and recommendations to assist in outlining potential future responsibilities for the Army National Guard.
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Project on Nuclear Issues

A Collection of Papers from the 2017 Conference Series and Nuclear Scholars Initiative

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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018

The role that nuclear weapons play in international security has changed since the end of the Cold War, but the need to maintain and replenish the human infrastructure for supporting nuclear capabilities and dealing with the multitude of nuclear challenges remains essential. Recognizing this challenge,...
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Nuclear Scholars Initiative

A Collection of Papers from the 2014 Nuclear Scholars Initiative

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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015

Addressing an increasingly complex array of nuclear weapons challenges in the future will require talented young people with the necessary technical and policy expertise to contribute to sound decisionmaking on nuclear issues over time. To that end, the CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) runs a...
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Changing US Security Strategy

The Search for Stability and the "Non-War" against "Non-Terrorism"

by Anthony H. Cordesman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

More than a decade into the “war on terrorism,” much of the political debate in the United States is still fixated on the legacy of 9/11. US politics has a partisan fixation on Benghazi, the Boston Marathon bombing, intelligence intercepts, and Guantanamo. Far too much attention still focuses...
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