Books in the CSIS Reports series

The U.S. defense industrial base is not prepared for the international security environment that now exists, including to deal with China. The United States should take several steps now to strengthen the industrial base to improve deterrence and warfighting.

Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine has galvanized Europe and triggered a renewed focus on hard security and defense. This latest CSIS report analyzes whether European political will to conduct military missions and operations worldwide will be sustained in the coming years.

There are growing calls for a decrease in the United States' military presence in the Middle East. This new CSIS report assesses posture options in the context of Chinese, Russian, Iranian, and other threats in the region.

Technology-enabled influence operations, including disinformation, will likely figure prominently in adversary efforts to impede U.S. crisis response and alliance management in high-risk, high-impact scenarios under a nuclear shadow.

Democratic governance is a critical element of the U.S. strategy to ensure a free and open Indo-Pacific region. This CSIS report catalogues regional efforts to support democracy and recommends ways the United States can partner with like-minded countries in the region.

The authors featured in this CSIS publication were members of The Project on Nuclear Issues' (PONI) 2020 Nuclear Scholars Class. The PONI Nuclear Scholars Initiative is a select group of rising next-gen voices, comprised of graduate students and young professionals.

Information dominance has been essential to ensuring U.S. military effectiveness, sustaining the credibility and assurance of military alliances, and stabilizing or reducing the risks of miscalculation or collateral damage. But can there be too much of a good thing?

This collection of essays addresses the interplay of democratic norms and cultural identity within Asia. The overall question for the volume is how the dueling identities of Asianism (regional exceptionalism) and universalism (democratic norms) are shaping state discourse and behavior in Asia.

CSIS's Mark Cancian analyzes the U.S. military forces in FY 2021, their composition, new initiatives, long-term trends, and challenges, as the United States' military forces likely entered their last year of growth.

With the return of great power competition, the United States needs every advantage it can get over its adversaries. This CSIS report looks at how the U.S. might revitalize the old but overlooked tool of surprise to gain a strategic advantage in great power conflict.

Services account for over 41 percent of DoD contract obligations. This CSIS report looks at a million contracts to evaluate how three factors influence performance: service complexity, contract-management capacity, and vendor's history working with a DoD contracting.

This CSIS report uses budgetary and program data to better understand the historical trends in the relationship of production costs to development costs in complex acquisition programs.

Analysis of the FY 2021 Defense Budget from the CSIS Defense Budget Analysis program provides an in-depth assessment of the Trump administration's request for national defense funding in FY 2021.

In this late-2019 survey of strategic elites in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, CSIS finds divergent views over Chinese influence, and concern for U.S.-China strategic competition and climate change. ASEAN is seen as the key regional institution for collective action.

In this CSIS report, the 2019 PONI Nuclear Scholars touched upon a variety of nuclear security issues ranging from the future of arms-control treaties, the role of AI and cyber resilience in nuclear security, to regional dynamics as it pertains to nuclear weapons.

Ten years of violent insurgency in northeast Nigeria have led to massive humanitarian needs, and the crisis shows no signs of abating. This report from the CSIS Humanitarian Agenda analyzes the challenges and opportunities for generating better humanitarian outcomes.

This book weaves together the compelling story of social and demographic effects of the economic miracle in South Korea. This exploration of social change examines the demographic dividend: a window of time when a large percentage of a country's population is in the working ages as a result of low fertility and declining mortality.

The contributions contained in this book highlight potential areas for enhanced cooperation between the United States and Japan at a time when the West desperately needs a confident and proactive Japan, and Japan needs sustained American engagement and deterrence in an Asia-Pacific region that will continue to be the site of economic growth.

In this CSIS report, Seth G. Jones analyzes Iran's irregular, conventional, economic, and soft power-as well as its domestic stability-to lay out a containment strategy aimed at curbing Iranian expansion and encouraging its political liberalization.

This report from the CSIS International Security Program analyzes the U.S. military forces in FY 2020, their composition, new initiatives, long-term trends, and challenges, as the United States attempts to align its forces with a strategy of long-term great power competition.

With millions of people around the world living in and traveling through the shadows, The CSIS Project on Prosperity and Development has produced this new report capturing its study of irregular migration and showcasing its field research in Mexico, Eritrea, and Ghana.

The CSIS Commission on Strengthening America's Health Security urges the U.S. government to replace the cycle of crisis and complacency that has long plagued health security preparedness with a doctrine of continuous prevention, protection, and resilience.

Developing countries seeking to attract foreign investments are often constrained by excessive perceived and real risks in the market. This report examines how bilateral agencies can scale up their use of guarantees and leverage private capital in these markets.

An effort to model U.S.-China economic conflict finds that Washington and Beijing are set on a path of continued escalation. The report makes recommendations for U.S. policymakers seeking to engage in successful economic bargaining with China.

This anthology takes a look at the critical role that development and other non-kinetic approaches play in countering violent extremism and maps out the role of soft power institutions in enabling lasting peace, prosperity, and global security.

This report analyzes the current state of affairs in defense acquisition by combining detailed policy and data analysis to provide a comprehensive overview of the current and future outlook for defense acquisition.

Ironclad considers the present and historical realities of the global U.S. alliance network by examining the theoretical underpinnings of why states align among others and further informs the reader on the practice of alliance management in the twenty-first century.

Ironclad considers the present and historical realities of the global U.S. alliance network by examining the theoretical underpinnings of why states align among others and further informs the reader on the practice of alliance management in the twenty-first century.

This report from the CSIS Project on Prosperity and Development looks at the domestic resource mobilization (DRM) reforms in developing countries through a political economy lens.

The CSIS Taiwan-U.S. Policy Program (TUPP) program provides a much-needed opportunity for future leaders to gain a better understanding of Taiwan through first-hand exposure to its politics, culture, and history. The papers in this compendium were written by the 10 members of the 2018 TUPP delegation.