
Craig Cohen is executive vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a bipartisan think tank in Washington, D.C. In this role, he serves as deputy to the president and CEO, responsible for overseeing and helping to achieve all aspects of the Center’s strategic, programmatic, operational, outreach, fundraising, and financial goals, including recruitment of new program directors to CSIS. Previously, Mr. Cohen served as vice president for research and programs, deputy chief of staff, and fellow in the International Security Program. He has served as editor of two anthologies of CSIS work, Global Forecast 2012 and Global Forecast 2011, as well as director of a project sponsored by the National Intelligence Council that produced the report Capacity and Resolve on foreign assessments of U.S. power. Mr. Cohen codirected the CSIS Commission on Smart Power in 2007 and authored A Perilous Course: U.S. Strategy and Assistance to Pakistan (CSIS, 2007). Mr. Cohen served as an adjunct professor at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School in 2006. Prior to joining CSIS, he worked with the United Nations and nongovernmental organizations in Rwanda, Azerbaijan, Malawi, and the former Yugoslavia. He received a master’s degree from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and an undergraduate degree from Duke University.
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Peace Works: America's Unifying Role in a Turbulent World
Event — June 6, 2018
2017 Global Forecast
Report by Craig Cohen and Josiane Gabel — December 15, 2016
2016 Global Forecast
Report by Craig Cohen and Melissa Dalton — November 15, 2015
Global Flashpoints 2015
Book by Craig Cohen Josiane Gabel Jon Alterman, Samuel Brannen, Ernest Bower, Victor Cha, Edward Chow, Heather Conley, Jennifer Cooke, Zack Cooper, Anthony Cordesman, Matthew Goodman, Michael Green, John Hamre, Kathleen Hicks, Christopher Johnson, Stephanie Kostro, Andrew Kuchins Sarah Ladislaw, Maren Leed, James Lewis, Haim Malka, Jeffrey Mankoff, Carl Meacham and Sarah Mendelson, Andrew Michta, Scott Miller, Stephen Morrison, Clark Murdock, Richard Rossow, Daniel Runde, Thomas Sanderson, Conor Savoy, Sharon Squassoni, Amy Studdart, Nicholas Szechenyi, Juan Zarate — February 20, 2015
2015 Global Forecast
Report by Craig Cohen Josiane Gabel Jon Alterman, Samuel Brannen, Ernest Bower, Victor Cha, Edward Chow, Heather Conley, Jennifer Cooke, Zack Cooper, Anthony Cordesman, Matthew Goodman, Michael Green, John Hamre Kathleen Hicks, Christopher Johnson, Stephanie Kostro, Andrew Kuchins, Sarah Ladislaw, Maren Leed, James Lewis, Haim Malka, Jeffrey Mankoff, Carl Meacham and Sarah Mendelson, Andrew Michta, Scott Miller, Stephen Morrison, Clark Murdock, Richard Rossow, Daniel Runde, Thomas Sanderson, Conor Savoy, Nicholas Szechenyi, Sharon Squassoni, Amy Studdart, Juan Zarate — November 11, 2014
2014 Global Forecast
Report by Craig Cohen Josiane Gabel, Kathleen H. Hicks Jon Alterman, David Berteau, Ernest Bower, Samuel Brannen, Victor Cha, Heather Conley, Jennifer Cooke, Zack Cooper, Anthony Cordesman, Ralph Cossa, Matthew Goodman, Michael Green, John Hamre, Murray Hiebert, Christopher Johnson, Andrew Kuchins and Sarah Ladislaw, Robert Lamb, Maren Leed, James Lewis, Haim Malka, Carl Meacham, Scott Miller, Stephen Morrison, Clark Murdock, Aram Nerguizian, Daniel Runde, Sharon Squassoni, Johanna Nesseth Tuttle, Juan Zarate — November 1, 2013