In a recent article for the Huffington Post, Transparency International’s Huguette Labelle makes the excellent point that “you can't beat poverty if you don't...

Economics is at the heart of U.S. involvement in the Asia Pacific. This statement is as true today as it was in 1784, when the first U.S. merchant ship bound for Canton set sail from New York. Trade,
investment, and other economic ties across the Pacific today are...

During a meeting with foreign experts in September, Russian President Vladimir Putin was asked about Russia’s efforts to prevent Ukraine from signing an association agreement with the European Union and bring it into the Russian-led customs union. Putin

The Korea Chair team takes a biweekly look back at events of interest in Washington, Seoul, and the region from December 5 - December 18, 2013.

U.S.-KOREA RELATIONS | ROK Vice Foreign Minister Visits the United States
Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kyou-hyun of the...

In a time of austerity, the U.S. Department of Defense has drawn budgetary savings primarily from reductions in private-sector contracting.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai recently returned from a four-day visit to New Delhi, his fifth such visit in three years, his thirteenth during his tenure as president.  India was also the first country with which Afghanistan signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement, in...

Ukraine and Russia have had a stormy relationship over gas supply and gas transit for two decades. Periodically their disputes spill over to affect gas supply of their European neighbors, usually in the dead of winter, most recently in January of 2006 and 2009. Just as...

On November 14, 2013, roughly 40 participants from the federal government, industry, and environmental community gathered at CSIS for a three-hour session.

Thirty-five years ago China embarked on a new policy path of “Reform and Opening Up.” One cannot but marvel at the tremendous economic progress that has been made since, as well as at the pace and scale of change experienced by Chinese society. Some time this...