Impacts will take months to unfold, and the implementation details and market players’ reactions will ultimately shape final outcomes.

A persistently cash-strapped Venezuela has no good medium- or long-term options and President Maduro faces growing problems with empty pockets and no obvious white knight in sight.

New development of abundant tight oil and unconventional natural gas resources creates an historic opportunity to enhance economic growth throughout North America and improve the region’s competitiveness in global markets.

Last week’s attack on and seizure of Mosul (Iraq’s second largest city) by armed groups affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), an extreme jihadist group, represents a major expansion of the group’s previously held control of areas near the...

Q1: Recent earthquake tremors centered on Youngstown, Ohio, have resurrected safety concerns related to hydraulic fracturing and shale gas extraction. Are the tremors related to fracking activity?

A1: Under the right conditions,...

From international security and regional study to global challenges, CSIS experts will address many of the world's most difficult policy concerns and critical questions in 2012.

For a variety of reasons, the current global energy system is unsustainable in its present form.

Q1: If the economy is so bad, why is the price of oil up? How much of this is just speculation?

A1: This week oil futures prices again topped $70 per barrel, up from $63 only a few weeks ago but still less than half of the peak prices...