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Space Threat Assessment 2021
March 31, 2021 | Todd Harrison, Kaitlyn Johnson, Joe Moye, Makena Young Space Threat Assessment 2021 is an unclassified assessment that aggregates and highlights recent open-source information on counterspace capabilities for policymakers and the general public.

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U.S. Military Forces in FY 2021: The Last Year of Growth?
March 18, 2021 | Mark F. Cancian CSIS’s Mark Cancian analyzes the U.S. military forces in FY 2021, their composition, new initiatives, long-term trends, and challenges, as the United States’ military forces likely entered their last year of growth.

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Inflicting Surprise: Gaining Competitive Advantage in Great Power Conflicts
January 29, 2021 | Mark F. Cancian With the return of great power competition, the United States needs every advantage it can get over its adversaries. This CSIS report looks at how the U.S. might revitalize the old but overlooked tool of surprise to gain a strategic advantage in great power conflict.

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The Biden Transition and U.S. Competition with China and Russia: The Crisis-Driven Need to Change U.S. Strategy
January 6, 2021 | Anthony H. Cordesman The United States must refocus its strategy and give gray area and hybrid conflicts at least the same amount of priority as it does to higher levels of warfare with Russia and China, writes CSIS’s Burke Chair in Strategy.

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U.S.-Russia Relations at a Crossroads
October 29, 2020 | Cyrus Newlin, Heather A. Conley Washington and Moscow diverge on a growing list of challenges. But even in areas where the two remain far apart, deconfliction mechanisms should be complemented by diplomatic dialogue that clearly communicates assessments of regional dynamics and policy priorities, and...

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Venezuela: Pandemic and Foreign Intervention in a Collapsing Narcostate
August 5, 2020 | Evan Ellis The Maduro regime is surviving with help from foreign actors hostile to the United States.

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China and Russia: Economic Unequals
July 15, 2020 | Jonathan E. Hillman Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin are attempting to put economics at the center of their strategic partnership, but a closer look at four dimensions of China-Russia connectivity reveals a partnership of unequals that will become even more lopsided in the future.

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Countering Russian & Chinese Influence Activities
July 15, 2020 | Cyrus Newlin, Heather A. Conley, Amy Searight Foreign influence activities pose a common threat to democracies, but in different ways. CSIS examined Russian influence activities in Germany and the United Kingdom and Chinese influence operations in Japan and Australia.

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On the Horizon Vol. 2: A Collection of Papers from the Next Generation
April 9, 2020 | Rebecca Hersman In this report, the 2019 PONI Nuclear Scholars touched upon a variety of nuclear security issues ranging from the future of arms-control treaties, the role of AI and cyber resilience in nuclear security, to regional dynamics as it pertains to nuclear weapons.

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The Changing Geopolitics of Nuclear Energy: A Look at the United States, Russia, and China
March 12, 2020 | Jane Nakano The U.S. nuclear energy industry is facing a relative decline while Russia and China are growing their nuclear competitiveness. This report investigates changes to the three countries’ foreign policy influence and the role governments play in nuclear power development.

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Reinvention or Restoration?
December 9, 2019 | Daniel F. Runde With the shareholders of EBRD reviewing its current operations and as Sir Suma is succeeded by a new president, CSIS releases a new white paper to examine the opportunities and challenges to the EBRD, the transatlantic relationship, and the stability of the global economy.

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U.S. Military Forces in FY 2020: The Struggle to Align Forces with Strategy
November 8, 2019 | Mark F. Cancian CSIS’s Mark Cancian analyzes the U.S. military forces in FY 2020, their composition, new initiatives, long-term trends, and challenges, as the United States attempts to align its forces with a strategy of long-term great power competition.

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