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How Supporting Ukraine Is Revitalizing the U.S. Defense Industrial Base

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. Congress has approved $113 billion to aid the response. U.S. security assistance to support Ukraine is reinvigorating the U.S. defense industrial base and creating American jobs.

Commentary by Elizabeth Hoffman, Audrey Aldisert, Cynthia Cook, Gregory Sanders, and Shivani Vakharia — April 18, 2024

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Tackling Southeast Asia's Refugee Crisis

The CSIS Sumitro Chair for Southeast Asia Studies is pleased to invite you for a panel discussion analyzing the refugee crisis in Southeast Asia, the reasons for the refugee departures, the responses of neighboring countries and the international community, and exploring possible solutions.

Event — June 17, 2015

North Korean Human Rights

To commemorate the one-year anniversary of the report by UN Commission of Inquiry on human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, CSIS held an unprecedented gathering of policymakers, opinion leaders, and stakeholders on the topic of North Korean human rights.

Report by Victor Cha and Marie DuMond — June 15, 2015

War Funding, Sequestration, and the Budget Impasse

The complex politics of deficit hawks, defense hawks, and domestic program advocates has produced an impasse on the fiscal year 2016 defense budget. Sequestration threatens.

Critical Questions by Mark F. Cancian — June 12, 2015

The Evolution of the Estonian Digital Ecosytem

Andres Kütt, architect and adviser for the Estonian Information System's Authority (EISA), Liina Areng, Head of International Relations for EISA, and Daniel Chenok, Executive Director for IBM's Center for the Business of Government will discuss the formation of Estonia's modern e-governance system and its implications for cyber security and privacy.

Event — June 11, 2015

Southeast Asia’s Geopolitical Centrality and the U.S.-Japan Alliance

Building on a careful analysis of Southeast Asia’s recent history, politics, economics, and place within the Asia Pacific, this report looks forward two decades to anticipate the development of trends in the region and how they will impact the U.S.-Japan alliance.

Report by Murray Hiebert, Gregory B. Poling, Phuong Nguyen, and Ernest Z. Bower — June 11, 2015

Critical Conversation: America’s place in the world, 2015

Over the past year, threats to U.S. security seem to have multiplied, even as the United States believed 14 years of war would come to an end with the drawdown of combat troops in Afghanistan. Rather than expanding spheres of peace, however, over the past year Russia’s aggression in Ukraine has unabashedly continued. ISIL has emerged from the chaos of Syria’s civil war as a destabilizing force in an already fragile part of the world.

Critical Questions by John Schaus — June 5, 2015