The year had begun with the Justice and Development Party (JDP), which has been in office since November 2002, riding high after its second successive election victory in July 2007. However, with the invalidation by the Constitutional Court of its legislative move in...

Less than six months ago, as oil price futures approached the $150 per barrel mark, many analysts (including the energy team at CSIS) publicly commented that the then-current trends were unsustainable and that eventually the persistence of high prices would lead to...

Last month, the U.S. intelligence community published an assessment of what the world might look like in the year 2025. Americans treated the report as an interesting exercise, if a somewhat esoteric one.  For many leaders in the Middle East, however, and especially in...

China’s reaction to the current economic crisis has been an odyssey of emotion, from denial to shock to anger to resolve. An early smug triumphalism among many Chinese at America’s big stumble gave way quickly to anxiety about its impact on China; then to anger...

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) oil ministers meeting in Algeria on December 17 agreed to reduce oil production by an additional 2.2 million barrels per day beginning in January 2009. This is the third output cut agreed on by OPEC since September 2008 in...

As relations among India, Japan, and the United States have evolved gradually over the past decade, the three countries, at both official and unofficial levels, have begun to consider common interests and potential cooperation on a range of international issues. Indeed, the...

Trust in decisionmaking in the United States has almost completely evaporated. This is true with respect to government, Congress, private companies, and the regulatory arena, where public and private intersect.The main issue I wish to raise in this commentary is whether the...

From transnational terrorism to avian flu, the contemporary challenges faced by the global community are growing increasingly complex and difficult to manage. This trend has been driven by several factors, with globalization and the proliferation of technology and...

Over the last several weeks, I have interviewed nearly two dozen activists, scholars and critics of the human rights movement for an article that will appear in the April issue of the foreign policy journal, The Washington Quarterly.

Nearly three decades after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan sent some 3.5 million refugees into exile in Pakistan, nearly 2 million are still there. The refugees’ own meager assets, lack of education and skills, compounded by Afghanistan’s lack of...

The CSIS U.S. Defense and National Security Group and Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group examined eight years of defense reforms during the administration of George W. Bush and identified for the incoming administration (1) successful reforms to maintain, (2) partially...

• Chan Heng Chee on "America's Place in Southeast Asia"
• November Timeline of Events and Events to Look For in December
• 16th Annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum
• Combating Piracy in Maritime Southeast...