For the Department of State, one of its most important tools is the process of “determination” that a U.S. citizen or permanent resident is a “wrongful” detainee. The Levinson Act enumerates 11 ...

This ongoing effort was initiated in May 2007, when the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) was asked by the Department of Defense to conduct an independent study to examine current ...

While the US has been at the forefront of the theory and engineering that started in the 1950s and grew into the new world we confront today, its position is being challenged by the People’s Republic ...

Spring 2025 will mark the 48th release of the U.S. Department of State’s annual congressionally mandated Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, commonly referred to as the Human Rights Reports ...

The Alliance for African Multilateral Financial Institutions (AAMFI), established in 2024 on the sidelines of the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, has created a new framework for African financial ...

Part I of the paper covers the initial impacts of the sanctions regime on the Russian economy. Next, Part II runs through the lessons Russia learned from the sanctions imposed in 2014, and how these ...

Resetting the United States’ Focus on Congolese Mining There is now a unique window of opportunity to build U.S.-DRC minerals cooperation, for two emerging reasons. First, the intensifying conflict ...

On February 21, 2025, a group of hackers from North Korea pulled off the largest cryptocurrency heist in history after stealing $1.5 billion in Ethereum tokens from the Dubai-based cryptocurrency ...

China has rapidly established itself as the world’s dominant shipbuilding power, marginalizing the United States and its allies in a strategically important industry. In addition to building massive ...

“The U.S. possesses all components across the full AI stack, including advanced semiconductor design, frontier algorithms, and, of course, transformational applications. Now the computing power this ...

Sketching a Supply Chain Securing critical minerals does not mean merely digging more of the necessary metals out of the ground in Canada; it requires thinking critically about mining, processing, ...

Chairman Gimenez, Ranking Member McIver, and distinguished Members of the Subcommittee, I am honored to share my views with you on this important topic. CSIS does not take policy positions, so the ...