Scott Kennedy is senior adviser and trustee chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

China’s lead in the global commercial shipbuilding market is huge and growing. The country’s largest state-owned shipbuilder built more commercial vessels by tonnage in 2024 than the entire U.S.

Further strikes on Fordow, potentially with U.S. support, could be imminent, but their success is just one factor that will ...

In his most recent book, The American Edge, Seth G. Jones examines the defense industrial bases of the great powers over the last century.The book explains how the industrial bases of the great powers ...

Israel’s military strikes are likely to set back Iran’s nuclear program, but much of the program will remain. Tehran's ...

Terrorism is no longer the top U.S. defense priority, but the complexity of the global terrorist landscape demands continued vigilance.

Critical Foreign Policy Decisions Benchmark. This dashboard is linked to a larger research collaboration between CSIS Futures Lab and Scale AI to develop LLM benchmarks for international relations and ...

Russia has performed poorly on the battlefield in Ukraine and will likely hit the 1 million casualty mark in the summer of 2025. New CSIS data details Russia's slow rate of advance, heavy losses of ...

This series—featuring scholars from the Futures Lab, the International Security Program, and across CSIS—explores emerging challenges and opportunities that NATO is likely to confront after its 75th ...

Expectations are sky-high for the Trump administration’s policy toward the Maduro regime in Venezuela. Many Venezuelans, including leading voices in the opposition, grew tired of the Biden ...

NATO has not proven capable of preventing Russian interference with European critical undersea infrastructure. But a new NATO center can help the alliance prepare for, deter, and defend against Russia ...