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Back to (Caring about) the Future
September 29, 2021 | Riley McCabe, Madeline Clough, Elizabeth Hoffman, Erol Yayboke U.S. lawmakers and their staff will need to improve their use of foresight to ensure long-term national prosperity and security. In response, CSIS’s International Security Program and Congressional Affairs team partnered to create the Congressional Foresight Initiative.

Commentary
We All Lost Afghanistan
August 26, 2021 | P. Michael McKinley There will be much debate about who carries the blame for the Afghanistan intervention and withdrawal. But as we reflect on two-decades of war, there is a shared responsibility upon everyone for what went wrong.

Commentary
Immediate Steps to Respond to the Emergency in Afghanistan
August 20, 2021 | Daniel F. Runde As the crisis in Afghanistan unfolds, the world is watching how the United States supports its Afghan partners. The United States has a moral obligation to help Afghans in danger and immediate steps should be taken.

Commentary
Global Political Protests and the Future of Democracy
March 5, 2021 | Riley McCabe From Moscow to Yangon, political protests are the most visible front in the global contest between authoritarianism and democracy and a top issue for the new Biden administration.

Blog Post
U.S.-India Artificial Intelligence Cooperation
February 11, 2021 | Katherine B. Hadda
From Adapt & Advance: A Refreshed Agenda for U.S.-India Relations
The current pandemic has shone a light on AI's potential benefits across a range of sectors. The U.S.-India partnership will enable faster development of this critical technology while mitigating its downsides.

Commentary
Can I Stay or Can I Go Now? Longer-term Impacts of Covid-19 on Global Migration
April 20, 2020 | Erol Yayboke Covid-19-related disruptions to global migration are unprecedented. As remittances correspondingly decrease, these disruptions could have long-term impacts on migration flows and thus on economic growth, global inequality, and on the well-being of migrants themselves.

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The Age of Mass Protests: Understanding an Escalating Global Trend
March 2, 2020 We are living in an age of global mass protests that are unprecedented in frequency, scope, and size. Last year’s mass protests are part of a decade-long trend affecting every region of the world, the frequency of which have increased by an annual average of 11.5 percent.

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Iraq as a Failed State
November 12, 2019 | Anthony H. Cordesman Iraq shows all too many signs of returning to the kind of internal instability that led to low level civil war in 2011 and the rise of ISIS, and that undercut any efforts to bring stability and defeat extremism in all of America’s military efforts in the region.

Commentary
Syria: Looking Beyond the Kurdish Crisis to Long Term Instability and a Near Certain Future of Civil Violence
October 21, 2019 | Anthony H. Cordesman Today’s crisis in Syria can only be addressed by treating the cause of its instability and not just the symptoms of it. In the meantime, no actors in the region are willing to engage that hard truth.

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Information Warfare: An Emergent Australian Defence Force Capability
October 4, 2018

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.

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Improving Stability in the Arab World
May 14, 2018 | Anthony H. Cordesman Even the world's most developed states have their own stability problems, and every region dominated by developing states faces critical challenges.

Critical Questions
Summit of the Americas in Lima, Peru
April 5, 2018 | Mark L. Schneider The Eighth Summit of the Americas will take place in Lima, Peru, on April 13–14. Chief issues will include anticorruption (just weeks after Kuczynski’s resignation), U.S. relations, and the Venezuelan crisis.

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