Craig Cohen is president and chief operating officer 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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2024 Global Forecast: Vying for Influence in the Global South

In the fourth and final installment of the 2024 Global Forecast, CSIS experts analyze the key challenges that will define the battle for influence in the Global South, which will determine geopolitical power and shape the future of the global order.

Digital Report by Michelle Strucke, J. Stephen Morrison, Noam Unger, Caitlin Welsh, Richard M. Rossow, Gregory B. Poling, Ryan C. Berg, Mvemba Phezo Dizolele, Craig Cohen, and Alex Kisling — February 7, 2024

2024 Global Forecast: Conflict Zones

In the third installment of the 2024 Global Forecast—A World Dividing—CSIS experts offer their views on what to expect on the battlefield in 2024, from the outlook for Ukraine to critical questions about the long-term consequences of the Israel-Hamas conflict.

Digital Report by Mark F. Cancian, Max Bergmann, and Maria Snegovaya, Romina Bandura, Kathleen McInnis, Elizabeth Hoffman, Eliot A. Cohen, Daniel Byman, Jon B. Alterman, Natasha Hall, Emily Harding, Craig Cohen, Alex Kisling — February 2, 2024

2024 Global Forecast: Winning the Economic and Tech Race

The contours of global economic and tech competition are rapidly evolving. In this second installment of the 2024 Global Forecast—A World Dividing—CSIS scholars explore what is needed to enhance U.S. competitiveness on trade, manufacturing, and energy & climate security.

Digital Report by James Andrew Lewis, Emily Benson, William Alan Reinsch, Sujai Shivakumar, Joseph Majkut, Ben Cahill, Ilaria Mazzocco, Craig Cohen, and Alex Kisling — January 30, 2024

2024 Global Forecast: The China Challenge

In the first installment of the 2024 Global Forecast—A World Dividing—experts examine the myriad challenges facing U.S.-China relations in 2024, from Chinese military activity and economic coercion to competition for tech dominance and geopolitical standing.

Digital Report by Victor Cha, Gregory C. Allen, Scott Kennedy, Seth G. Jones, Kari A. Bingen, and Heather Williams, Tom Karako, Bonny Lin, Jude Blanchette, Charles Edel, Christopher B. Johnstone, Nicholas Szechenyi, Lily McElwee, Daniel F. Runde, Craig Cohen, Alex Kisling — January 25, 2024

Peace Works: America's Unifying Role in a Turbulent World

In his new book, ambassador and global conflict leader Rick Barton uses a mix of stories, history, and analysis for a transformative approach to foreign affairs and offers concrete and attainable solutions for the future.

Event — June 6, 2018

2017 Global Forecast

Global Forecast is an annual collection of essays by CSIS experts focused on the critical issues facing the U.S. and the world in the year ahead.

Report by Craig Cohen and Josiane Gabel — December 15, 2016

2016 Global Forecast

An annual collection of wide-ranging essays by CSIS experts, 2016 Global Forecast discusses the issues that will matter most to America and the world’s security and prosperity in the year ahead.

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

Maintaining international security and pursuing American interests is more difficult now than perhaps at any time in history.

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


After a dozen years of war, the 2008 financial crisis, budgetary contraction inside government, and growing political polarization, U.S. security policy stands at a crossroads as America finds itself lacking a durable political consensus on the nation’s role in the world.

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