Saudi Arabia faces a new era of uncertainty. The Iran war has exposed the kingdom to the vulnerabilities of regional conflict, prompting Riyadh to rethink its security partnerships, energy strategy, ...

Xi’s visit to Washington is likely to be heavy on optics and symbolism but light on substantive progress, highlighting both ...

Project Vault is moving from concept to execution. Glencore and Mercuria are committing $1 billion to source and stockpile ...

Federal agencies obligated $4.1 billion across 2,255 AI-related contracts since FY 2019, and 83 percent of those dollars went ...

North Korea is pursuing a “second byungjin” that advances its nuclear program while also seeking to normalize relations with ...

The Houthi attacks against Saudi Arabia that began on July 13—and are still ongoing—recall nothing so much as the strikes on Saudi energy infrastructure of September 2019. But this time it is worse, ...

Two floating storage vessels have handled an estimated 53 percent of Russia’s seaborne Arctic crude exports since February ...

The September 2026 edition of the Human Rights Initiative Director's Note where Andrew Friedman shares his reflections on ...

Fresh attacks on energy infrastructure in the Middle East may push regional leaders to build the first post-U.S. security arrangement for the Strait of Hormuz. As U.S. voters head to the polls in a ...

A tricky reality of the U.S.-Iran war and Russia’s war on Ukraine will plague American policymakers in future conflicts, including in any potential future conflict with China. That reality is just how ...

More than nine months after the capture of Nicolás Maduro, CSIS Americas Program Acting Director and Senior Fellow Christpher Hernandez-Roy and Antonella Navarro assess Venezuela's progress towards ...

Export controls can delay China’s technological progress, but they cannot secure lasting U.S. leadership. This report examines the limits and costs of semiconductor controls and argues for pairing ...