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Beating the Air into Submission: Investing in Vertical Lift Modernization (Part II)
May 10, 2019 | Gabriel Coll, Andrew Philip Hunter Future Vertical Lift is an effort to deliver generational change to a fleet of aging helicopters. Until recently, however, investments have been limited relative to overall vertical lift spending. This follow-up CSIS brief looks at how this may change over the next decade.

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Pursuing Effective and Conflict-Aware Stabilization: Partnering for Success
April 30, 2019 | Erol Yayboke, Melissa Dalton, Hijab Shah

This new joint CSIS brief from the Project on Prosperity and Development and the Cooperative Defense Project argues that stabilization success depends on how local, U.S. interagency, and international levels share the burden and leverage comparative strengths.

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CSIS Brief: The Higher Road: Forging a U.S. Strategy for the Global Infrastructure Challenge
April 23, 2019 | Matthew P. Goodman, Daniel F. Runde This accompanying brief to the CSIS report from the CSIS Global Infrastructure Task Force summarizes how the current trends in global infrastructure buildout are too powerful and potentially beneficial for the United States to stop and too consequential to ignore.

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Delivering Prosperity in the Indo-Pacific: An Agenda for Australia and the United States
April 18, 2019 | Matthew P. Goodman, Gordon de Brouwer CSIS’ Matthew Goodman, together with colleagues at Australian National University, co-authored a brief on opportunities for U.S.-Australia coordination in the Indo-Pacific across five sectors.

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Preventing Catastrophe in Afghanistan
April 12, 2019 | Daniel F. Runde

If the United States and its allies suddenly withdraw from Afghanistan, catastrophe could ensue. This brief presents the worst-case scenario in Afghanistan: civil war, poverty, disease, refugees, and terrorism.

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America’s Global Infrastructure Opportunity: Three Recommendations to the New U.S. Development Finance Corporation
April 11, 2019 | Daniel F. Runde

This brief aims to provide three recommendations surrounding global infrastructure for the new USDFC which will be launched in October 2019.

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Innocent Bystanders: Why the U.S.-China Trade War Hurts African Economies
April 9, 2019 | Judd Devermont A trade war has escalated between the U.S. and China and African economies are caught in the crossfire. CSIS's Judd Devermont and Catherine Chiang examine how tariffs are impacting African economies and U.S.-Africa relations.

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Harnessing Multilateral Financing for Health Security Preparedness
April 3, 2019 The financing gap for preparedness is one of the starkest problems in health security. The CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security proposes some sensible pathways for leveraging this year’s IDA19 replenishment to help close this gap.

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Masterpiece Theater: Missed Opportunities for Missile Defense in the 2020 Budget
March 29, 2019 | Tom Karako, Wes Rumbaugh CSIS’s Thomas Karako and Wes Rumbaugh break down the 2020 missile defense budget submission, what it means for adapting to great power competition, and the delay of a space-based sensor layer.

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Russian Meddling in the United States: The Historical Context of the Mueller Report
March 27, 2019 | Seth G. Jones In light of the Mueller report’s finding that Russian intelligence conducted an aggressive campaign to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election, CSIS’s Seth Jones explains how Moscow has long used “active measures” to manipulate U.S. elections.

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Access for What? Elevating Civilian Protection and Quality Access for Humanitarian Action in Syria
March 25, 2019 | Melissa Dalton, Hijab Shah Donors, the UN, and NGOs must coordinate action with firm adherence to humanitarian principles, putting Syrian civilians first, even as the United States and its allies chart political objectives to counter the Syrian government and its supporters.

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War by Proxy: Iran’s Growing Footprint in the Middle East
March 11, 2019 | Seth G. Jones

New analysis by CSIS’s Seth Jones based in part on commercially available satellite imagery shows that the footprint of the Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force is growing in the Middle East.

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