Center For Strategic International Studies: 249 books

Cover of Meeting Security Challenges in a Disordered World
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017

The United States must be prepared to operate in a range of complex environments to meet a range of security challenges and threats, such as humanitarian emergencies, terrorism and violent extremism, great power aggression, health security crises, and international criminal violence. This study focuses...
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Georgia in a Reconnecting Eurasia

Foreign Economic and Security Interests

by Andrew C. Kuchins, Jeffrey Mankoff, Oliver Backes
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016

Georgia in a Reconnecting Eurasia examines the full scope of Georgian national interests in the wider Eurasian region and analyzes the broad outlines of Georgian engagement over the coming years. It is part of a four-part CSIS series, “The South Caucasus in a Reconnecting Eurasia,” which includes studies focusing on Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the South Caucasus.
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Somalia Redux?

Assessing the New Somali Federal Government

by Matt Bryden
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013

The Somali Federal Government (SFG), established in August 2012, has been widely welcomed as Somalia’s first “post-transition” government, receiving breathlessly upbeat media coverage and plaudits from the international community. Matt Bryden argues in this report that these buoyant judgments...
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A New Era in U.S.-Vietnam Relations

Deepening Ties Two Decades after Normalization

by Murray Hiebert, Phuong Nguyen, Gregory B. Poling
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014

A New Era of U.S.-Vietnam Relations examines the history of the relationship and offers concrete recommendations for policymakers in both countries to deepen cooperation across each major area of the relationship: political and security ties, trade and economic linkages, and people-to-people connections.
Cover of Analysis of the FY 2017 Defense Budget
by Todd Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016

The Obama administration’s FY 2017 budget—the eighth and final budget submitted by the administration—requests a total of $678.3 billion in funding for national defense. This CSIS Defense Outlook report analyzes the FY 2017 defense budget request looking at trends in the budget, differences...
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Restoring U.S. Leadership in Nuclear Energy

A National Security Imperative

by The CSIS Commission on Nuclear Energy Policy in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013

America’s nuclear energy industry is in decline. Low natural gas prices, financing hurdles, failure to find a permanent repository for high-level nuclear waste, reactions to the Fukushima accident in Japan, and other factors are hastening the day when existing U.S. reactors become uneconomic. The...
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Fueling the Online Trade Revolution

A New Customs Security Framework to Secure and Facilitate Small Business E-Commerce

by Kati Suominen
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015

Across the United States, individuals and small businesses are increasingly buying and selling goods and services online. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the total value of online transactions in the United States grew from $3 trillion in 2006 to $5.4 trillion in 2012, about a third of U.S. GDP....
Cover of Federal Research and Development Contract Trends and the Supporting Industrial Base, 2000–2015
by Jesse Ellman, Kaitlyn Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016

As the current U.S. defense budget drawdown has progressed, numerous analysts have expressed concern about the ability of the United States to retain technological superiority, particularly given how research and development (R&D) contracting appears to be in serious decline. To examine what has...
Cover of Measuring the Impact of Sequestration and the Drawdown on the Defense Industrial Base
by Rhys McCormick, Andrew P. Hunter, Gregory Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018

The presence of a technologically superior defense industrial base has been a foundation of U.S. strategy since 1945. While the implementation of the budget cuts in the Budget Control Act of 2011 has caused concerns for the industrial base, the resulting debate has been lacking in empirical analysis....
Cover of Defense Acquisition Trends, 2016
by Jesse Ellman, Samantha Cohen, Andrew Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017

This report is the second in an annual series examining trends in what the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is buying, how DoD is buying it, and from whom DoD is buying. This year’s study looks in depth at issues in research and development, acquisition reform in the FY2017 National Defense Authorization...
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Afghanistan After the Drawdown

U.S. Civilian Engagement in Afghanistan Post-2014

by Gerald F. Hyman
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014

Three primary factors will define post-2014 Afghanistan: security, governance and economic growth. Security is uncertain at best, notwithstanding the optimistic public projections of the U.S. military leaders. Reasonably, decent governance will depend on the security environment. Afghanistan has had...
Cover of Realizing the Potential of U.S. Unconventional Natural Gas
by Sarah O. Ladislaw, Lisa A. Hyland, David L. Pumphrey
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013

The ability to access and economically develop vast amounts of America’s unconventional natural gas resources, especially large shale gas formations, has altered our national view on energy and has subsequently changed the discourse at the federal, state, and local levels. Since 2008, when the economic...
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Realizing the Vision

The Soldier/Squad System

by Maren Leed, Ariel Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014

The U.S. Army is facing a time of great change. The security environment is becoming increasingly complex and uncertain, with defense challenges multiplying. At the same time, the Army is adjusting to rapidly diminishing operational demands, falling endstrength, reorganization, and tightening budgets.
Cover of State and Market in Contemporary China

State and Market in Contemporary China

Toward the 13th Five-Year Plan

by Scott Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016

The short essays in this volume, contributed by leading experts on Chinese economic policy, provide crisp and insightful analyses of the Chinese state's approach toward markets, the role of key actors and institutions, the evolving nature of industrial policy and the effectiveness of China’s international...
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