Books published by Centre for Strategic & International Studies,U.S.

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.

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?

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.

In this CSIS report, Bonnie Glaser, Matthew Funaiole, and Hunter Marston explore the intersection of the U.S Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy and Taiwan's New Southbound Policy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This volume explores the varied outcomes that self-determination movements around the world have achieved, and in particular seeks to understand what factors promote better outcomes and what factors promote worse ones, and evaluates the quality of societies after independence.

This volume explores the varied outcomes that self-determination movements around the world have achieved, and in particular seeks to understand what factors promote better outcomes and what factors promote worse ones, and evaluates the quality of societies after independence.

In Russia, religious teachings and philosophies are used both to justify and combat violence, and a better understanding of the dynamics at the heart of religious violence in Russia is critical to the country's future development and security.

This paper garners information crucial to understanding business growth for new entrants and small businesses who contract with the federal government by utilizing publicly available contracting data from the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) to track new entrants from 2001-2016.

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.

"Fragility"-the combination of poor governance, limited institutional capability, low social cohesion, and weak legitimacy-leads to erosion of the social contract and diminished resilience. This study reviews how the international community has responded to this challenge and offers ideas on how that response can be improved.

This report explores the changing nature of maritime domain awareness (MDA) in the Baltic Sea and Norwegian Sea and offers recommendations for establishing effective MDA in these basins.

At a time of geopolitical tension and mutual distrust, the United States and Russia must work together in those areas where coordination is critical to global security, both to help stabilize the relationship and to buffer against conflict in the future.

This report considers the range of options available to the Central Asian neighbors of Afghanistan (Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) in responding to the worsening security situation in that nation.

This is the final report of the bipartisan CSIS Task Force on Reforming and Reorganizing U.S. Foreign Assistance, co-chaired by Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Senator Todd Young (R-IN).

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) looks ahead in this annual volume at the "flashpoints" that will likely arise in 2016, how best to deal with them, and what lasting effects they might leave for the next American administration and its allies around the world.

This report focuses on the ways that a federated defense approach can strengthen strategic partnerships and deliver more innovative defense technologies at a lower cost-by better harnessing global supply chain networks to expand the military supplier base and increase the net capability available to the network of partners and allies.

There is real promise for developing economies in the mobilization of their own domestic resources. And as aid levels from wealthy nations continue to be uncertain, countries have an impetus to finance their own development in order to deliver responsible, transparent public services-all of which require a strong tax base from the formal sector.