Center For Strategic International Studies: 249 books
The Gulf Military Balance
The Conventional and Asymmetric Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
The United States faces major challenges in dealing with Iran, the threat of terrorism, and the tide of political instability in the Arabian Peninsula. The presence of some of the world’s largest reserves of oil and natural gas, vital shipping lanes, and Shia populations throughout the region have...
The Gulf Military Balance
The Missile and Nuclear Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
The United States faces major challenges in dealing with Iran, the threat of terrorism, and the tide of political instability in the Arabian Peninsula. The presence of some of the world’s largest reserves of oil and natural gas, vital shipping lanes, and Shia populations throughout the region have...
The Gulf Military Balance
The Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
The United States faces major challenges in dealing with Iran, the threat of terrorism, and the tide of political instability in the Arabian Peninsula. The presence of some of the world’s largest reserves of oil and natural gas, vital shipping lanes, and Shia populations throughout the region have...
Delivering the Goods
Making the Most of North America’s Evolving Oil Infrastructure
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
The North American energy landscape has shifted in significant ways. New development of abundant tight oil and unconventional natural gas resources creates an historic opportunity to enhance economic growth throughout North America and improve the region’s competitiveness in global markets. The...
Chinese Strategy and Military Power in 2014
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese and US Assessments
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
This report tracks and analyzes trends in Chinese military strategy, force structure, and regional activity. Open source material is used to detail how each branch of the People’s Liberation Army has pursued modernization. Chinese perspectives on their military’s role and development are featured,...
U.S. Military Forces in FY 2017
Stable Plans, Disruptive Threats, and Strategic Inflection Points
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
This timely study examines the Defense Department’s FY 2017 budget proposal for the size and shape of military forces; what that proposal means for cost, strategy, and risk; and challenges the proposal faces in implementation. The study covers all four military services plus government civilians, contractors, and department-wide initiatives.
Tell Me How This Ends
Military Advice, Strategic Goals, and the “Forever War” in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
When the United States invaded Afghanistan after the attacks on September 11, 2001, and then overthrew the Taliban regime, senior military officers were not predicting that the United States would be militarily involved 18 years later. Yet, after expending nearly $800 billion and suffering over 2,400...
Project on Nuclear Issues
A Collection of Papers from the 2013 Conference Series
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
The Project on Nuclear Issues 2013 conference series included events at Northrop Grumman in May, Sandia National Laboratory in July, and CSIS in December, before concluding with a Capstone Conference at Offutt Air Force Base, home of the U.S. Strategic Command, in March 2014. The papers included in...
The Kremlin Playbook
Understanding Russian Influence in Central and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Russia has cultivated an opaque web of economic and political patronage across the Central and Eastern European region that the Kremlin uses to influence and direct decisionmaking. This report from the CSIS Europe Program, in partnership with the Bulgarian Center for the Study of Democracy, is the...
by Bonnie S. Glaser
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
This report puts the issue of Taiwan’s challenges in expanding its international participation in the broader context of the cross-strait relationship and explains the policies of Taipei, Beijing, and Washington. It discusses Taiwan’s participation in international governmental and nongovernmental...
The Turkey, Russia, Iran Nexus
Evolving Power Dynamics in the Middle East, the Caucasus, and Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
This report is the culmination of a two-year project examining the complex relations among Turkey, Russia, and Iran in an effort to better understand these countries’ perceptions in the post-Cold War world and the conditions and interests that cause international political alignments among them....
by Gregory Sanders, Samantha Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
International joint development programs are important because of their potential to reduce costs and increase partnership benefits such as interoperability, economies of scale, and technical advancement. While all major development and acquisition programs are complex undertakings, international...
The Kremlin Playbook 2
The Enablers
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
In The Kremlin Playbook 2: The Enablers, the CSIS Europe Program and the Center for the Study of Democracy explored whether some of these jurisdictions and companies could be enabling forces that amplify Russian malign economic influence in some countries in Europe. The study analyzed the following...
Taiwan's Marginalized Role in International Security
Paying a Price
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
The complicated question of Taiwan’s sovereignty has led to its exclusion from virtually all international security organizations. This marginalization has left a critical hole not only in the security of Taiwan’s twenty-three million citizens, but also the world at large. Despite possessing both...