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, ...
Project Vault is moving from concept to execution. Glencore and Mercuria are committing $1 billion to source and stockpile ...
Two floating storage vessels have handled an estimated 53 percent of Russia’s seaborne Arctic crude exports since February 2022. CSIS Futures Lab analysis shows how the United States and Europe can ...
Xi’s visit to Washington is likely to be heavy on optics and symbolism but light on substantive progress, highlighting both ...
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 ...
Federal agencies obligated $4.1 billion across 2,255 AI-related contracts since FY 2019, and 83 percent of those dollars went ...
The September 2026 edition of the Human Rights Initiative Director's Note where Andrew Friedman shares his reflections on human rights and democracy issues occupying significant space in his mind, ...
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 ...
Mexico is close to an interim deal with the United States. What it concedes for tariff relief today could set the baseline for North America down the line.
The United States hedged it bets on AI leadership driven by frontier models. This bet could be losing ground to a cheaper, ...