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A Preliminary Assessment of Argentina’s Accession to the OECD
April 29, 2019

Since 2016, Argentina has been working to accede to the OECD.  This report from the CSIS Americas Program provides an initial assessment of Argentina’s accession to the OECD.

Newsletter
U.S.-Canada Energy Trade in 2018
April 26, 2019

​2018 was another record-setting year for energy trade between the United States and Canada. 

Report
The Higher Road: Forging a U.S. Strategy for the Global Infrastructure Challenge
April 23, 2019 | Matthew P. Goodman, Daniel F. Runde, Jonathan E. Hillman, Erol Yayboke A global infrastructure buildout is transforming the economies around the world. This report from the CSIS Global Infrastructure Task Force discusses how these trends are too powerful and potentially beneficial for the United States to stop and too consequential to ignore.

Report
CSIS Brief: The Higher Road: Forging a U.S. Strategy for the Global Infrastructure Challenge
April 23, 2019 | Matthew P. Goodman, Daniel F. Runde This accompanying brief to the CSIS report from the CSIS Global Infrastructure Task Force summarizes how the current trends in global infrastructure buildout are too powerful and potentially beneficial for the United States to stop and too consequential to ignore.

Commentary
Cutting Off Assistance to Central America
April 19, 2019 | Mark L. Schneider

CSIS Americas Program’s Mark Schneider illustrates the social, economic, and political consequences of the Trump administration’s decision to cut off aid to Northern Triangle countries and offers potential political and policy options for the United States moving...


Commentary
Was She a Spy? Probably Not
April 5, 2019 | James Andrew Lewis

Recent reports of a Chinese woman entering Mar-a-Lago under false pretenses raise security concerns. CSIS’s James Lewis examines the pros and cons of the suspect possibly being a foreign agent and what this could mean for the United States.

Commentary
Can Venezuela’s Oil Pay the Day After Bill?
April 2, 2019 | Moises Rendon Venezuela’s oil output—with the world’s largest proven oil reserves—will not be enough to finance the country’s reconstruction efforts once democracy is restored. The international community will have to front the reconstruction capital first, argues CSIS’s Moises...

Report
The FY2020 Defense Budget Request and the Need for a Real "Strategy Driven" Budget
April 1, 2019 | Anthony H. Cordesman The entire budget submission is centered around the assumption that the U.S. needs more defense spending – rather than to spend more wisely on the right forces and missions.

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