Amidst a roaring recovery of the housing market beginning in the fourth quarter of 2009, the State Council announced some tough-sounding policies to cool the market in April 2010. Although these policies have worked to slow transaction volume in China’s major cities,...

This brief is a part of series prepared by the Burke Chair in Strategy on current issues in defense budgeting and strategy.

The Administration recently released the President’s new National Space Policy. CSIS subsequently hosted senior Administration officials, who noted that the new policy builds on and only slightly modifies the space policies of previous Administrations. Administration...

June 2010 saw at least approximately 66 terrorist attacks and jihad - related violent
incidents in Russia .

This brief is a part of series prepared by the Burke Chair in Strategy on current issues in defense budgeting and strategy.

Bilateralism, secrecy, and quiet pressure are being confronted by multilateralism, transparency, and efforts to appeal to international rule of law in one of the twenty-first-century’s most important bodies of water—the South China Sea.

Prime Minister Naoto Kan did not enjoy a high approval rating long enough to win the upper house election held on July 11, as the ruling coalition lost its overall majority in the 242-seat chamber. With half of the upper house seats up for election, the biggest opposition...