Hungary’s Viktor Orban will visit the White House despite his pursuit of many policies that are at odds with U.S. interests, from close ties with Russia to the ousting of a U.S.-accredited university from Budapest, writes Heather A. Conley.

U.S. policy toward the Arctic is driven by three cross-cutting factors. Despite the relentless pace of these drivers, U.S. policy has remained largely stagnant, allowing Russia and China to shape the region’s future, note CSIS’s Heather Conley and Matthew Melino.

CSIS report “Information Warfare: An Emergent Australian Defence Force Capability” sets out some key questions from the Australian military concerning information warfare and its implications for allies and security partners seeking to confront this challenge.

Almost 66 million people worldwide have been forced from home by conflict. If recent trends continue, this figure could increase to between 180 and 320 million people by 2030.

Foreign aid has long been seen as the stepchild of U.S. national security. Polls show that most Americans have a grossly exaggerated picture of the size of the U.S. foreign aid effort, and no idea of where it actually goes, or what its purpose is. For many Americans, foreign...

Proficiency in English is a critical component of a successful modern society. English is the third most spoken and most widely taught language on the planet. Commonly used in over 100 countries by more than 300...

There is a very real case for taking violent Islamic extremism far more seriously as a global threat, and for taking stronger measures to fight it. The United States was far too slow to react to the threat that ISIS and other violent Islamist extremist movements pose in Iraq...