Emeritus Chair in Strategy

The Emeritus Chair in Strategy provides political and military analysis of key strategic challenges facing the United States, including the Middle East, U.S. national security, global military balance, asymmetric warfare, and global energy security

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The Emeritus Chair in Strategy is affiliated with the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, which was established and endowed in honor of CSIS’s first director and cofounder, Admiral Arleigh A. Burke. Together, the Burke Chair in Strategy and the Emeritus Chair in Strategy publish a wide range of analysis on key strategic challenges facing the United States and the world. 

Dr. Anthony H. Cordesman, former Burke Chair in Strategy, currently holds the Emeritus Chair in Strategy. Dr. Cordesman remains an active scholar at CSIS and is one of the premier sources for analysis of key strategic challenges facing the United States and the world. Efforts include Middle East issues, U.S. national security, lessons of war analysis, the global military balance, asymmetric warfare, and global energy security.

Several books have been published in association with each of these projects and can be purchased online from the CSIS Press. The website of the Emeritus Chair will also contain all of the analyses formerly placed on the Burke Chair website by Dr. Cordesman, including reference work on the military balance, NATO, China, MENA region, and the lessons of war.

The Emeritus Chair will continue to release new reports and working documents. The latter will be revised on an ongoing basis and updated frequently to the web page. As a result, much of the material provided in this section should be regarded as working material that is subject to update.

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Iraq, the United States, and the “New” Middle East

The United States must shape a strategy that recognizes Iraq as a critical part of any future security structure in the Middle East, writes CSIS’s Burke Chair in Strategy.

Report by Anthony H. Cordesman and Grace Hwang — August 5, 2021

Iran and U.S. Strategy: Looking beyond the JCPOA

Iran’s increasing ability to use its proxies and engage the United States in gray-area warfare means that the United States must reshape its strategy to comprehensively engage Iran beyond the JCPOA, writes CSIS’s Burke Chair in Strategy.

Report by Anthony H. Cordesman — July 20, 2021

Understanding Iraqi Public Opinion on Democracy and Governance in 2021

Please join the CSIS Burke Chair on Thursday, June 24th at 2pm as Dr. Munqith Dagher and Dr. Karl Kaltenthaler present findings from a major series of public opinion surveys and analyses of Iraqi public opinion.

Event by Anthony H. Cordesman , Munqith Dagher , and Karl Kaltenthaler — June 24, 2021

The Iraqi Opinion Thermometer

Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi is faced with the challenge to restore trust in Iraqi public institutions and must understand key attitudes or risk another civil uprising, writes an affiliate of CSIS’s Burke Chair in Strategy.

Report by Dr. Munqith Dagher and Karl Kaltenthaler — June 22, 2021

The U.S. and China in the FY2022 Budget Request

The U.S. defense budget must go beyond listing major procurements and should be driven by a clear strategy in order to compete with China in the Pacific, writes CSIS's Burke Chair.

Commentary by Anthony H. Cordesman — June 2, 2021