Hungary is increasingly becoming a crucial transit point for the entry of Afghan-produced heroin into Europe.

The 2006 AILA International Fellows returned to CSIS on September 25-29 for a second term of training, "Global Leadership Challenges: Energy, Demographics, and Security."

In the last two years, China’s activist foreign aid policy has attracted more and more attention.  China responded to the tsunami in Southeast Asia and earthquake in Pakistan with its largest-ever aid packages, and even provided emergency aid to the U.S. in the...

On December 18, the Office of the Chief of Staff hosted a Strategy Hour with Jennifer Cooke from the Africa Program and Post-Conflict Reconstruction's Rick Barton and Liora Danan, who completed a 19-day trip to Nigeria. Over the course of their visit, they met with 115...

Latin America has caught the attention of news media that normally pay little heed to the region because of what is seen as a leftward trend in presidential election outcomes. Three recent examples are the victories of Rafael Correa Delgado in Ecuador on November 26, Hugo...

Of the 79 recommendations of the Iraq Study Group report that came out recently, the one that got the most attention—even before the report’s release — was the recommendation that the U.S. government talk with Iran and Syria. That recommendation has also...

Six days after North Korea’s October 9 nuclear test, Shoichi Nakagawa, the policy chief of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), declared in a television appearance that Japan should discuss the nuclear option. Foreign Minister Taro Aso echoed these...