Asia Program
Covering every corner of the world's most populous region, the CSIS Asia Team provides insightful analysis and develops innovative policy solutions for the Asian century
CSIS plays an important role in shaping the foreign policy debate on Asia. Our Asia team provides in-depth policy analysis and insights on the drivers of economic, political, and security dynamics in China, Japan, Korea, India, Australia, and Southeast Asia.
The Asia team also maintains digital platforms for policy analysis such as Beyond Parallel, examining and bringing transparency to the possibility of Korean unification; the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI), our interactive source for information, analysis and policy exchange on maritime security issues in the region; China Power, which unpacks the complexity of China’s rise through data visualization and analysis; and podcasts such as The Impossible State, The Asia Chessboard, ChinaPower, and Southeast Asia Radio.
The Asia team also seeks to define the contours of U.S. strategy in Asia by conducting collaborative research projects such as Mapping the Future of U.S. China Policy and organizes multiple events including the annual Asia Forecast conference, where panels of CSIS experts predict regional developments in the coming year.
Contact
- Nicholas Szechenyi
- Senior Fellow, Japan Chair and Deputy Director for Asia
- 202.741.3928
- nszechenyi@csis.org
Media Queries
- H. Andrew Schwartz
- Chief Communications Officer
- 202.775.3242
- aschwartz@csis.org
- Paige Montfort
- Media Relations Manager, External Relations
- 202.775.3173
- pmontfort@csis.org
Featured Asia Program Projects

Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative

Australia Chair

China Power Project

Chinese Business and Economics

Economics Program

Freeman Chair in China Studies

Japan Chair

Korea Chair

Scholl Chair in International Business

Southeast Asia Program

Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies
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Japan’s New Defense Buildup Plan and Its Defense Industrial Base
Commentary by Gregg Rubinstein — January 26, 2023

CSIS Commission Report on North Korea Policy & Extended Deterrence
Transcript — January 26, 2023

ChinaPower Debate on US-China Economic Cooperation
Event by Bonny Lin , Daniel H. Rosen , and Fred Bergsten — January 24, 2023

CSIS Commission Report on North Korea Policy & Extended Deterrence
Event by John J. Hamre , Joseph S. Nye Jr. , Victor Cha , Katrin Fraser Katz , and Vincent Brooks — January 19, 2023

Indo-Pacific Forecast 2023
Event by Victor Cha , Emily Benson , Jude Blanchette , Charles Edel , Matthew P. Goodman , Christopher B. Johnstone , Scott Kennedy , Ellen Kim , and Bonny Lin , Lily McElwee , Erin L. Murphy , Yuko Nakano , Gregory B. Poling , William Alan Reinsch , Nicholas Szechenyi , Raymond Vickery , Kurt Campbell , Ambassador Taeyong Cho , Ambassador Jose Manuel G. Romualdez — January 12, 2023

Leading Japan's Digital Transformation: A Discussion with Kono Taro
Event by John J. Hamre , Christopher B. Johnstone , and Kono Taro — January 11, 2023

The Capital Cable #62: Korea-Japan Relations in 2023
Event by Victor Cha , Christopher B. Johnstone , and Sue Mi Terry — January 11, 2023

The Biden-Kishida Summit Meeting
Critical Questions by Nicholas Szechenyi , Yuko Nakano , and Matthew P. Goodman — January 10, 2023

How Might Japan Join the Five Eyes?
Commentary by John Hemmings — January 6, 2023

Spotlight - Vietnam and Indonesia: January 5, 2023
Blog Post by Bich T. Tran — January 5, 2023
