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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

Once again, this week, the United States and China are holding a summit meeting between the two nations’ leaders. Indications are that both procedurally and substantively it will be very much like the ...

What do you do when you realize moral failure has underwritten your life? The global community faced that same reckoning in 1926. The passage of the 1926 Slavery Convention highlighted the dramatic ...

The wars of the past three years have eroded the fragile order of the Middle East. Now, for the first time in decades, the ...