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.
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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Demographic Change in the Arab/Persian Gulf: A Case Study by Country
Report by Anthony H. Cordesman and Paul Cormarie — August 29, 2022
Creating a New Energy Strategy for a Post Ukraine War World
Report by Anthony H. Cordesman and Paul Cormarie — August 22, 2022
Setting the Right Conditions for Aid to Afghanistan—and Other Nations as Well
Report by Anthony H. Cordesman — August 15, 2022
Looking beyond the Biden Visit to the Middle East and the “Fist Bump”
Report by Anthony H. Cordesman — August 4, 2022
NATO Force Planning: Rethinking the Defense Industrial Base
Commentary by Anthony H. Cordesman — July 19, 2022
Appendix A: The Changing Defense Industrial Base: Some Indicators
Commentary by Anthony H. Cordesman — July 19, 2022
The Need for a New NATO Force Planning Exercise
Report by Anthony H. Cordesman and Grace Hwang — July 14, 2022
The Lessons of the Afghan War That No One Will Want to Learn
Report by Anthony H. Cordesman — June 15, 2022
The Longer-Term Impact of the Ukraine Conflict and the Growing Importance of the Civil Side of War
Commentary by Anthony H. Cordesman — June 6, 2022
Ranking the World’s Major Powers: A Graphic Comparison of the United States, Russia, China, and Other Selected Countries
Commentary by Anthony H. Cordesman — May 16, 2022