It is our pleasure to send you the September Edition of ISP Brief, the monthly newsletter of the CSIS International Security Program. ISP Brief features articles and commentary written by our scholars, their analysis as published in various media sources...

Philippine foreign secretary Perfecto Yasay on September 15 gave a speech at CSIS during his first visit to the United States since President Rodrigo Duterte took office in late June. Yasay, who visited Washington amid questions over the direction of U.S.-Philippines...

 
Philippine foreign secretary Perfecto Yasay on September 15 gave a speech at CSIS during his first visit to the United States since President Rodrigo Duterte took office in late June. Yasay, who visited Washington amid questions over the direction of...

This December will mark the 15th anniversary of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO).

On September 28, the Indian Army initiated a military strike against terror camps along the Line of Control in Kashmir. The exact nature of this action, as well as its location, remains vague. But the “surgical strike,” as termed by India’s director general of Military...

South Korea, one of the world’s leading exporters, is on the verge of losing its biggest shipping company in the worst corporate fiasco the country has seen since the 1998 economic crisis. As the company sinks, two of the big ideas that helped drive 50 years of rapid...

Most analysts tend to judge India’s reform process based on whether the government proactively initiates new reforms. We at CSIS are no different, having launched our “Reforms Scorecard” last year, tracking progress on 30 major reforms pending from the day Prime...

There is no clear way to determine how much Chinese strategy shapes military spending versus how Chinese resources shape strategy; the two are always interdependent.

This weekend the world’s major oil exporting economies will meet to discuss the status of global oil markets and once again contemplate the idea of limiting their own production at current levels (known as freezing production) in order to support higher prices. More than...