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.

During the morning of November 24 the semi-official Anatolia News Agency quoted “Turkish presidential sources” in reporting that “Turkish jets shot down a warplane believed to be a Russian-type SU-24 after it violated the Turkish air space. The incident...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been invariably positive about the Turkish economy, caused a surprise on April 18 when he said “although some people are not noticing it, the numbers show that the Turkish economy has been sliding for three...

On August 10, voters in Turkey will head to the polls to directly choose their president for the first time. Having led Turkey for over eleven years as prime minister and as chairman of the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP), Recep Tayyip Erdogan has chosen to run...

More than a decade after 9/11, Western forces in Afghanistan are drawing down and the ability of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) to secure their country remains uncertain.

Even as the BRICS member states come to terms with a rising China and even if they get their economic act together, the group will not be able to turn into a unified political force: a fundamental contradiction lies at the very heart of BRICS as a political idea.

The U.S. shift toward Asia should and will continue, but Washington must both account for an insecure China for rebalancing to achieve its intended aims and must sustain its commitment to intensive high-level engagement with Beijing to cope with inevitable crises.

The former Russian arms control negotiator argues that if no progress is made on the list of issues confronting nonproliferation by 2015, then the fate and effectiveness of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty itself and the nonproliferation regime in general are in...

The choices that four rising democracies—Brazil, India, Indonesia, and Turkey—make will help determine the trajectory of the interlocking web of norms, institutions, rules, and relationships known as the global order.

Understanding the complex and often contradictory interactions among Turkey, Russia, and Iran is essential to avoiding a wider war in the Middle East, renewed conflict in the Caucasus, and instability in Central Asia following the withdrawal of NATO forces from...