Terrorism is no longer the leading international threat to the United States or its top defense priority, but challenges related to violent extremism remain. The threat from Salafi-jihadist groups ...

Following a three-week U.S. naval quarantine that has halted most of Venezuela’s oil exports, the Trump administration apprehended Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and declared that the ...

China’s recent export controls, especially of rare earth elements (REEs), have left Western companies reeling, with some firms allegedly considering shifting elements of production back to China just ...

Two important dynamics have driven political and social change in sub-Saharan Africa during the past 25 years. New religious trends have emerged within the main faiths of Islam and Christianity, in ...

John Hamre was elected president and CEO of CSIS in January 2000. Before joining CSIS, he served as the 26th U.S. deputy secretary of defense. Prior to holding that post, he was the under secretary of ...

The principal goals driving Russia’s cyber strategy across the spectrum of conflict are clear: disruption, destruction, and control of information. As a pioneer of cyber warfare, Russian actors ...

CSIS’s work on governance and rule of law covers democratic backsliding in Latin America, authoritarian activity in China and Russia, and maintaining election security and democratic values.

Evan G. Greenberg is chairman and chief executive officer of Chubb Limited and Chubb Group. He was elected president and chief executive officer in May 2004 and chairman of the board of directors in ...

James A. Kelly is a former assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs. President George W. Bush nominated him on April 3, 2001; he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 26, ...

Yesterday, the Philippines announced it had given notice to the United States that it intended to withdraw from the Philippines-United States Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) between the two countries.

America’s defeat in Afghanistan has launched another round of official studies of the lessons of war. Such efforts have had value in the past by examining the military lessons of a given war and some ...

Russian military forces have failed to effectively advance along multiple axes in Ukraine, seized limited territory, lost substantial quantities of equipment relative to Ukraine, and suffered ...