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

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.
The late Dr. Anthony H. Cordesman, former Burke Chair in Strategy, held the Emeritus Chair in Strategy. He was an active scholar at CSIS and was 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 were published in association with each of these projects and can be purchased online from the CSIS Press. The website of the Emeritus Chair contains 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.
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Iran: Looking Beyond the Assassination
Commentary by Anthony H. Cordesman — November 30, 2020
Failed Reporting and Analysis of the Afghan Peace Process
Commentary by Anthony H. Cordesman — November 18, 2020
Setting New U.S. Strategic Priorities for a Post-Trump World
Commentary by Anthony H. Cordesman — November 9, 2020
Afghanistan: The Peace Negotiations Have Become an Extension of War by Other Means
Commentary by Anthony H. Cordesman — October 28, 2020
The Military Dynamics of the Middle East and North Africa
Report by Anthony H. Cordesman and Grace Hwang — October 26, 2020
Iraqi Stability and Its Free-Falling Middle Class
Commentary by Munqith Dagher — October 21, 2020
Analytic Appendix: Additional Data on Detailed Patterns in MENA Arms Transfers
Report by Anthony H. Cordesman and Grace Hwang — October 20, 2020
The Need to Expand the Focus of the Congressional Budget Office 2020 Long-Term Budget Outlook
Report by Anthony H. Cordesman — October 16, 2020
Judging the Impact of U.S. Force Reductions in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria
Commentary by Anthony H. Cordesman — September 16, 2020
The Real World Capabilities of ISIS: The Threat Continues
Commentary by Anthony H. Cordesman — September 9, 2020