Center For Strategic International Studies: 249 books
Central Asia in a Reconnecting Eurasia
Uzbekistan's Evolving Foreign Economic and Security Interests
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Today, with combat operations in Afghanistan winding down, U.S. policy toward the states of Central Asia is transitioning to a new era. The United States now has an opportunity to refashion its approach to the region. In doing so, it should capitalize on trends already underway, in particular the...
Combating Global Poverty
Investing in the Governance and Growth Nexus
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Although funding for governance and economic growth is a part of U.S. foreign aid, it remains a relatively low priority in spite of rhetorical pronouncements to the contrary. There is significant reason, however, to reverse this trend and return to a focus on governance to ensure broad-based economic...
Global Forecast 2014
U.S. Security Policy at a Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
After a dozen years of war, the 2008 financial crisis, budgetary contraction inside government, and growing political polarization, U.S. security policy stands at a crossroads as America finds itself lacking a durable political consensus on the nation’s role in the world. In Global Forecast 2014,...
Beyond Aid
The Integration of Sustainable Development in a Coherent International Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
In September 2015, world leaders adopted a new post-2015 development agenda, centered on 17 Sustainable Development Goals intended to transform the world. This report provides basic information about the new agenda—its content, aspirations, and global partnership approach. It describes the complex...
The Evolving Military Balance in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia
Strategy, Resources, and Modernization
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
The Evolving Military Balance in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia describes the strategy, force deployments, and the military balance in potential current and future scenarios involving the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Republic of Korea, People’s Republic of China, Japan, and...
The Afghan War in 2013: Meeting the Challenges of Transition
Security and the Afghan National Security Forces
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
After more than a decade of fighting in Afghanistan, the United States and its allies are set to transfer security responsibilities to Afghan forces in 2014. This transition poses many challenges, and much will depend on the future of Afghan politics, governance, corruption, development, security,...
The Costs of Corruption
Strategies for Ending a Tax on Private-sector Growth
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Corruption remains a priority area for both the private sector and development implementers. However, there is no consensus on actionable steps toward addressing it on a global level. This issue is especially important in the context of international trade and development as the private sector plays...
Africa at a Crossroads
Overcoming the Obstacles to Sustained Growth and Economic Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Many of Africa’s economies are at a crossroads, with an unprecedented opportunity for sustained growth, structural change, and accelerated development. Each will face a unique set of economic and political circumstances, but key to the success of all will be building critically needed infrastructure, deepening regional integration, and building a skilled workforce.
by Tatiana Mitrova
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Russia is one of the world’s largest hydrocarbon resource holders, producers, and exporters, but it is undergoing an uncertain economic and energy transition. An economic slowdown, the dual shocks of a sharp decline in oil prices and the imposition of finance and technology-oriented sanctions, shifting...
Launching a New Chapter in U.S.-Africa Relations
Deepening the Business Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Africa’s changing economic landscape is prompting a shift in how U.S. policymakers view the continent. High growth rates, new technologies, and a rapidly expanding consumer class are driving greater global competition for investment and access to potential export markets, and the United States is...
Nuclear Scholars Initiative
A Collection of Papers from the 2013 Nuclear Scholars Initiative
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
The 2013 class of Nuclear Scholars, selected from a very competitive applicant pool, contained some of the best and brightest young professionals in the nuclear field. Drawn from graduate programs, the national labs, the civil service, and the U.S. military, these Nuclear Scholars participated in...
Enhancing Value Chains
An Agenda for APEC
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Economic integration has been a focus of Asia-Pacific affairs for the last quarter century. To support and strengthen economic ties, governments in the region have pursued an array of integration initiatives, from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum launched in 1989 to bilateral and...
U.S.-Russia Economic Relations
Myths and Realities
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This study offers a detailed analysis of U.S.-Russia economic relations, viewed in a broader geopolitical context. It assesses the limits of bilateral cooperation through the economic and political trajectories of both countries, particularly considering the structural constraints in Russia’s economic...
Harnessing the Data Revolution to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
Enabling Frogs to Leap
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Before launching its second round of global goals—the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—the United Nations convened a High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. As part of its final report, the Panel called for a “data revolution” and recommended the formation...