Impacts will take months to unfold, and the implementation details and market players’ reactions will ultimately shape final outcomes.

If decades of torrid growth have been the opening scene on Asia’s economic stage, the region’s reconnecting—through new roads, railways, and other infrastructure—could be the next act.

Economic sanctions have become the tool of choice for American foreign policy.

Elites in Tunisia and Jordan stress their need to invest in their human resources, because people are the only resources they have.

The Maghreb is looking south to secure its future. Though ties between sub-Saharan and North Africa are deep and go back centuries, after independence in the 1950s and 1960s, Maghreb countries primarily viewed sub-Saharan Africa as an arena for competition among...

Last week’s attack on and seizure of Mosul (Iraq’s second largest city) by armed groups affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), an extreme jihadist group, represents a major expansion of the group’s previously held control of areas near the...

This month's edition of the International Security Program's electronic publication includes:

From the Director's Chair
By Kath Hicks

Managing Turkey Ties in Tough Times
By Sam Brannen

The US needs to comprehensively reexamine its strategy and force posture in the USCENTCOM area of responsibility (AOR).

The US and its Arab Gulf allies face the steadily increasing threat that some form of conflict may occur with Iran in the coming years, and accordingly, they must develop the most effective possible deterrent to Iran’s military ambitions.

This report is also available in PDF here.

CSIS and the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV) co-organized a workshop at TEPAV in...