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Understanding Insurrection and Sedition

CSIS security experts define acts of sedition and insurrection and evaluate the seriousness of both charges.

Critical Questions by Suzanne Spaulding, Devi Nair, and Joseph Federici — January 29, 2021

Restore Trust in National Security Institutions

Trust in U.S. democratic institutions has been declining for some time. To start rebuilding and sustaining public confidence in democracy and in U.S. national security institutions, civic education must be elevated as a national security imperative.

Critical Questions by Suzanne Spaulding and Devi Nair — January 22, 2021

Smart Women, Smart Power Podcast

The Future of American Democracy

Suzanne Spaulding and Beverly Kirk discuss the assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.

Podcast Episode by Beverly Kirk and Suzanne Spaulding — January 13, 2021

CSIS Smart Women, Smart Power

Buttressing Institutional Integrity in an Election Year

How can the laws, policies, processes, historical precedents, and institutional norms guiding federal force roles be tested during a presidential election and transition?

Brief by Devi Nair, Suzanne Spaulding, and Melissa Dalton — October 27, 2020