From the Director’s Chair by Kathleen Hicks
The graduation of two female officers from the U.S. Army’s elite Ranger School is very much in the news this August. By the end of...

Earlier this summer, the Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, took several steps to bolster the sustainability of the immunization programs it supports in the world’s 49 lowest-income countries. One important Board action was to refine the process by which countries...

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The Mekong River is often referred to as the lifeblood of Southeast Asia. It is where economics and environment come together in a region that is increasingly central to Asia’s security and prosperity.

In the spring of 2015, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) hosted a roundtable discussion with key subject-matter experts to develop practical, actionable recommendations for ways to shape the future of biometric and identity intelligence in the...

The provision of advanced Russian military technology has been critical for the development of China’s anti-access/area-denial (A2AD) capability. This study focuses on one aspect of the relationship, namely Russia’s contribution to the PLA Navy’s surface...

On August 31, President Barack Obama will become the first U.S. president to visit the Arctic north of the Arctic Circle. This historic visit coincides both with the start of the two-year U.S. chairmanship of the Arctic Council—an intergovernmental forum of Arctic...

The New Ice Curtain explores Russia’s strategic ambitions for its Arctic region—an understudied and underappreciated area that encompasses nearly the entire northern coast of Eurasia. As the Russian Arctic produces 20 percent of Russian GDP, 22 percent of...

On August 24, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey initiated the process for what he has been calling “repeat elections” after the inconclusive result of the June 7 parliamentary elections. After meeting with the Speaker of the Turkish Grand National...

When Xi Jinping was China’s vice president visiting the United States in 2012, he declared that U.S.-China economic relations provide the ballast and the propeller for the entire bilateral relationship. President Xi is coming to visit the United States again in...

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