Dracopoulos iDeas Lab

For 60 years, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has developed practical solutions to the world's greatest foreign policy and national security challenges. For the past five, we have also been creating innovative videos, websites, and interactive foreign policy tools.

The Andreas C. Dracopoulos iDeas Lab enhances CSIS’s research and impact through creative digital experiences. CSIS experts partner with the iDeas Lab to create websites, interactive visuals, custom reports, graphics, videos, and podcasts that effectively communicate policy scholarship and recommendations to a global audience.

The iDeas Lab was created in 2011 through the generous support of CSIS trustee Andreas C. Dracopoulos. Our cutting-edge work reaches audiences worldwide to propel policy discourse forward. To date, iDeas Lab projects have been featured on the front pages of the New York Times and highlighted in Senate hearings, and have racked up millions of engagements.
 

FEATURED PROJECTS

Missile Threat

Missile Threat brings together a wide range of information and analyses relating to the proliferation of cruise and ballistic missiles around the world and the air and missile defense systems designed to defeat them.

The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI)

AMTI made international headlines in 2014 when it released satellite imagery of island reclamation efforts by China in the South China Sea. It is the world's best source of information for policy on Asian maritime issues. 

The ChinaPower Project

Our work spans the globe.