Research Focus

The International Security Program (ISP) covers a broad array of defense, strategy, and regional security issues, including terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, post-conflict reconstruction, Asian Security, bioterrorism, and the defense-industrial base. The CSIS Commission on Smart Power is a high-level project that aims to create a strategic vision for how the United States can integrate soft and hard power to address current and future challenges. The Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy advances understanding in the fields of geostrategy, international security, European and Euro-Atlantic affairs, and global politics. The Transnational Threats Project specializes in  non-governmental aspects of international security. The Burke Chair in Strategy analyzes U.S. and allied power projection capabilities, asymmetric warfare, and regional security relationships.

Smart Power Video: Richard Armitage and Joseph Nye, co-chairs of the CSIS Smart Power Commission discuss how the project aims to create a strategic vision for how the United States can integrate soft and hard power into "smart power" to address current and future challenges. Anthony Cordesman (right), who holds the Burke Chair in Strategy, published The Ongoing Lessons of the Afghan and Iraq Wars

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