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Critical Questions
Moving Beyond “China, China, China” in the Indo-Pacific
February 12, 2021 | John Schaus

The Biden administration is signaling the United States will return to a more traditional foreign policy in Asia. But it must engage allies and partners on more than just defense policy.

Commentary
The Future of Competition: U.S. Adversaries and the Growth of Irregular Warfare
February 4, 2021 | Seth G. Jones Irregular warfare today is merely the newest variant of an age-old struggle between rivals. But the United States is woefully unprepared for this type of competition.

Critical Questions
Escaping the Graveyard of Empires? U.S. Options in Afghanistan
January 26, 2021 | Seth G. Jones The Biden administration faces a difficult decision in how it will move forward in Afghanistan, particularly after the Trump administration’s drawdown. While U.S. forces have been fighting there for two decades, a withdrawal at this point could have disastrous effects.

Critical Questions
Decoding the Latest U.S. Report on Arms Control: Are Russia and China Really Cheating?
April 17, 2020 | Rebecca Hersman Here are five critical questions and takeaways that can be learned from the State Department’s executive summary of the 2020 Compliance Review, including specific concerns that Russia and China may have conducted nuclear tests in 2019.

Commentary
The Marine Corps’ Radical Shift toward China
March 25, 2020 | Mark F. Cancian The Marine Corps is making major changes to align itself with the national defense strategy and prepare for a future conflict in the Western Pacific. But this new Marine Corps faces major risks if the future is different from that envisioned.

Commentary
Hold My Chai: Escalation and De-Escalation Scenarios in South Asia
March 1, 2019 | John Schaus

CSIS’s Hijab Shah and John Schaus analyze three different scenarios that could arise out of the current conflict between India and Pakistan and their potential implications for the United States.

Commentary
Give Peace a Chance, Just Not This Way
February 26, 2019 | John Schaus There is mounting analysis that President Trump and Kim Jong-un may announce a peace declaration this week in Hanoi, which would be a terrible gift in beautiful wrapping, argues CSIS fellow John Schaus, and could pose serious risks to enduring U.S.-South Korea relations.

Commentary
Blowing the Horn: How the United States Can Reclaim the Strategic Initiative in the Bab al Mandeb
July 20, 2018 The U.S. approach to this region is clearly due for an update. Yet how should the United States even begin to think about this region strategically?

Commentary
U.S. Forces in Korea
June 14, 2018 President Trump’s agreement to suspend the upcoming U.S.-ROK combined exercise does not appear to meet the threshold for protecting U.S. lethality, and should not be advanced absent substantial North Korean concessions. 

Commentary
Macron Addressing China’s Sharp Power Efforts in Europe
April 26, 2018 A flurry of concern has grown over what is being referred to as China’s “sharp power” efforts in Europe—that is, influencing efforts disguised as soft power that hinge on manipulation and covert activity.

Commentary
The Limits of Good Strategy: The United States in the Asia Pacific in 2018
February 2, 2018 | John Schaus

The NSS and NDS demonstrate the administration is able to develop a blueprint for U.S. leadership in the world, but the administration needs to follow its own strategy.

Newsletter
Charting Nuclear Security Progress in South Asia
December 1, 2017

The nuclear security summits have come and gone, but the challenge of nuclear terrorism is still with us. As long as weapons-usable fissile material (highly enriched uranium, or HEU, and separated plutonium) is used in the civil sector, there is a risk that the material...


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