In April 2023, fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces spread into a deadly civil war across Sudan. Now, 16 months since the onset of the conflict, extreme ...

President Trump’s proposal to repurpose the U.S. plutonium stockpile to fuel nuclear reactors resulted in a May 23, 2025, executive order directing the Department of Energy (DOE) to revisit disposal ...

The most recent country to feel the heavy hand of Beijing’s economic coercion is Lithuania, which in November 2021 opened a “Taiwan Representative Office” (駐立陶宛台灣代表處) in Vilnius. The name ...

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 ...

On March 6, U.S. treasury secretary Scott Bessent withdrew the United States from the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), a platform for developed nations to aid developing nations transition ...

New research finds that we can now no longer trust our eyes and ears to reliably distinguish between real and AI-generated images, audio, and video. What does this mean in a world where the ...

Though presented with his characteristic wit, Augustine’s data was entirely serious. His warning took on something of a mythic status in the Pentagon and was branded “Augustine’s Law.” In 2010, The ...

Julie Howard is an independent consultant on international development issues with a focus on agricultural development, youth employment, and sub-Saharan Africa. She serves as senior adviser for ...

In collaboration with the Jack D Gordon Institute for Public Policy, CSIS’s Ryan Berg coauthored a report on the new U.S. strategy for an era of strategic competition in Latin America and the ...

CSIS experts utilize deep expertise and global relationships to help policymakers in navigate the evolving challenges to U.S. global leadership. Their work examines the key political, economic, ...

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