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Report
A Shared Responsibility: Public-Private Cooperation for Cybersecurity
March 22, 2022 | Eugenia Lostri, James Andrew Lewis, Georgia Wood Federal action on cybersecurity is more likely than ever in 2022. This report provides recommendations for public-private collaboration on cybersecurity, based on the findings of two roundtables with senior information security executives and government officials.

Report
Geopolitical Implications of Scientific Innovation Trends in Northeast Asia
June 24, 2021 | Seth G. Jones, Gregory Sanders This report examines the implications of scientific innovations and emerging technologies on geopolitics in Northeast Asia. The discussed emerging technologies have substantial commercial and military consequences, areas that will both prove strategically important.

Commentary
Bandwidth Is the New Water
March 31, 2020 | Devi Nair COVID-19 is exposing the extent to which online connectivity has become a societal necessity. But as more and more individuals across the country are forced to stay home, can networks withstand a constant and simultaneous coronavirus-induced strain on the internet?

Congressional Testimony
After the Breach: The Monetization and Illicit Use of Stolen Data
March 15, 2018 | James Andrew Lewis

James A. Lewis, senior vice president at CSIS, testified before House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Terrorism and Illicit Finance on "After the Breach: The Monetization and Illicit Use of Stolen Data."

Report
Countering Adversary Threats to Democratic Institutions
February 14, 2018 | Suzanne Spaulding

This report, informed by a CSIS-convened Experts Group, calls for a whole-of-nation approach to address the threat to, and improve the resilience of, the country's democratic institutions.

Blog Post
Beyond the Worst-Case Assumptions on China’s Cybersecurity Law
October 13, 2017
From Strategic Technologies Blog

On June 1, China’s new Cybersecurity Law went into effect. Before and since there has been intense discussion in international business circles and governments about what that means in practice. In the United States especially, there has been a tendency toward reading the...


Commentary
Capacity Development 2.0: Mentoring for Effective Institutions
March 4, 2016 | Marc Frey

Though international development experts rarely agree upon anything, most accept that effective and accountable government institutions, including security institutions, are a prerequisite for other development. In fragile and conflict countries, institutions are often...


Report
Evaluating Future U.S. Army Force Posture in Europe: Phase I Report
February 4, 2016 This report offers a reexamination of U.S. Army force posture in Europe amid heightened tensions between the United States and Russia over the geopolitical orientation of Ukraine.

Report
Winning the War of Ideas
November 16, 2015 | Juan C. Zarate

There is a broad consensus that the United States and the West are losing the messaging war against the Islamic State, al-Qaeda, and like-minded terrorists.

Newsletter
FYSA: For Your Situational Awareness l Issue 19
May 29, 2015 | Mark F. Cancian, Gregory Sanders

This month's edition of the International Security Program's electronic publication includes:

Overhead Cuts Need Oversight
By Mark Cancian (Colonel, USMCR, Ret.)

Measuring Shifting U.S. Regional Engagement


Critical Questions
U.S. Commando Raid in Syria
May 18, 2015 | Rick "Ozzie" Nelson

On Saturday US forces conducted a raid in Syria aimed at capturing a leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) known as Abu Sayyaf. Coming under fire during the mission, the commandos killed Abu Sayyaf and about dozen other fighters while also capturing Abu...


Congressional Testimony
A Survey of Global Terrorism and Terrorist Financing
April 22, 2015 | Juan C. Zarate

Juan Zarate, CSIS senior adviser for Transnational Threats Project and Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program, testified before the House Financial Services Committee on Terrorism Financing.

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