2020
12/10/2020
Frank A. Rose
The existing arms control and strategic stability framework, originally established to regulate bilateral nuclear competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, is under increasing strain.
12/07/2020
Kaitlyn Johnson
The space domain is largely ungoverned and undisciplined. In this analysis from the CSIS Aerospace Security Project, key areas of space governance are explored to understand international perspectives on ongoing debates in the field.
12/03/2020
Dr. Jesse Goldhammer
There has never been a more urgent need for the public and private sectors to collaborate effectively on cybersecurity and to quickly make use of innovative, emerging technologies.
12/01/2020
Matthew Rojansky
Many Americans see Russia today as a threat not only to friends and allies in Eurasia, but to the very fabric of American democracy, the foundation of our prosperity and our cherished way of life.
11/23/2020
Dr. Bleddyn Bowen
Bleddyn Bowen presents a theory of spacepower and considers the implications of space technology on strategy and international relations.
11/18/2020
Dr. Katarzyna Zysk
Katarzyna Zysk will examine the evolution of Russia's military posture in the Arctic.
11/10/2020
Abraham M. Denmark
U.S. Strategy in the Asian Century presents a new vision for the United States to navigate a region of immense consequence that is in the midst of profound change.
11/09/2020
Lt Col Christopher D. Forrest
The Administration recently released the "National Strategy for Critical and Emerging Technologies," which outlines how the United States will promote and protect our competitive edge in wide-ranging technologies.
11/02/2020
Richard Fontaine
The COVID-19 pandemic has been described as history's first global event, in that it has produced significant effects across virtually all of the world's population simultaneously.
10/22/2020
Robert Litwak
Humanity faces three catastrophic, if not existential, threats—a pandemic, climate change, and nuclear war.
10/19/2020
Aaron Bateman
At the present time, U.S. government officials are faced with the increasingly complex task of protecting critical national security space infrastructure in a rapidly evolving threat environment.
10/08/2020
Erik Lin-Greenberg
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly common in the international security domain.
09/24/2020
Eric Brewer
How worried does the United States need to be about nuclear proliferation over the next 10-20 years? Are the risks of nuclear proliferation increasing or decreasing?
09/17/2020
Richard Lum
A rigorous and more expansive approach to exploring our future operating environments is necessary for more effective foresight and ultimately, policy making.
09/14/2020
Oriana Skylar Mastro
The trade war, fallout from COVID-19, and increased military activity raise the risk of conflict between the United States and China in the South China Sea.
09/03/2020
Michael Mazarr
The last two years has seen an explosion of interest in issues of disinformation, propaganda, information manipulation and fakery, "fake news," "truth decay" and related trends.
08/27/2020
Matthew Kroenig
The United States of America has been the most powerful country in the world for over seventy years, but recently the U.S. National Security Strategy declared that the return of great power competition with Russia and China is the greatest threat to U.S. national security.
08/24/2020
David Johnson
The speaker will provide a critical assessment of the State Policy on Nuclear Deterrence made public by the Kremlin on 2 June 2020.
08/18/2020
Joshua Rovner
U.S. Cyber Command is responsible for operating in cyberspace to defend American security interests.
08/11/2020
Markus V. Garlauskas
Markus V. Garlauskas will be discussing the evolution of the strategic challenge posed by North Korea and the implications for East Asian regional stability and US-China strategic competition in the years ahead.
08/03/2020
Toby Dalton & George Perkovich
Neither the governments attempting to negotiate with North Korea, nor the drafters of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, define what verifiable elimination of nuclear weapons and associated infrastructure would entail, whether in one country or in all.
07/27/2020
Amb. Ronald F. Lehman II & Maj Gen (Ret) Bill Chambers
Amb. Lehman and Maj Gen Chambers will present on the Threat Reduction Advisory Committee's paper, entitled "Report on Scenario-Based Planning to Maintain the Credibility of the U.S. Nuclear Deterrent Against Emerging Threats."
07/13/2020
Mira Rapp-Hooper
For the first century and a half of its existence, the United States had just one alliance—a valuable but highly controversial military arrangement with France. Largely out of deference to George Washington's warnings against the dangers of "entangling alliances," subsequent American presidents did not consider entering another until the Second World War.
06/24/2020
Mim John and David Franz
John and Franz will report on the findings of the Threat Reduction Advisory Committee (TRAC) task force established by DoD to assess the continuing viability of both the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and Biological Weapons Convention (BWC).
06/18/2020
Dean Wilkening
This talk addresses the impact that hypersonic weapons likely will have strategic stability; in particular, the challenge of controlling escalation in fast-paced conventional hypersonic battles and the potential for counterforce attacks against an opponent's ICBM force.
06/18/2020
Jacob Heim
Over the past decade, American foreign policy discussions have displayed growing concerns that U.S. power has been declining relative to China. These concerns, combined with the current administration's focus on great power competition, renew long-standing questions about how we should measure national power, which nations have the most power, which states are gaining and losing power, and when such shifts in relative or perceived power might portend conflict.
06/02/2020
Anya Fink and Michael Kofman
Kofman and Fink will present the findings of two recent Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) studies on the evolution of Russian strategy for escalation management, or intra-war deterrence, across the conflict spectrum from peacetime to nuclear war.
05/27/2020
Dr. Robert Soofer
U.S. nuclear policy and strategy is subject to intense debate in Washington, D.C. especially in the U.S. Congress. In reality, there has been far more consensus than divergence about the basic fundamentals of U.S. nuclear strategy and the nuclear force posture needed to implement that strategy.
05/08/2020
Chris Inglis
Mr. Inglis will brief the findings and recommendations of the United States Cyberspace Solarium Commission, established by the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act to develop a comprehensive national strategy for defending American interests and values in cyberspace. The desired end state is to reduce the probability and impact of cyber-attacks of significant consequence on the US.
03/03/2020
Hina Rabbani Khar
Changing global and regional security environment in an era of great power competition has placed Pakistan in a curious position. Pakistan faces diverse security and economic challenges, compounded by frequency of military crises with nuclear archrival India.
02/26/2020
Rose Gottemoeller
Rising concerns about global dangers from nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction nowadays combine with rising doubts about the effectiveness of long-term efforts to reduce such dangers. In this environment, how can U.S. arms control and nonproliferation strategies best play a leadership role?
02/25/2020
Rupal Mehta
Scholars and practitioners have long debated about the conditions under which states that have embarked on nuclear weapons programs choose to stop their pursuit. This book centers its theoretical analysis on how the international community bargains with proliferators to encourage reversal.
01/14/2020
Jackie Schneider
Central to both the Department of Defense (DoD) Cyber Strategy and the Cyber Command Strategic Vision is an assumption that the vast majority of cyber activities will occur under a threshold of armed conflict.
01/07/2020
Richard Nephew
The United States has consolidated around a maximum pressure strategy to convince Iran to make fundamental changes to its nuclear program and entire foreign policy. Iran's refusal has included doubling down on those policies, including restarting the frozen or restricted aspects of its nuclear program—as well as regional activities that run the risk of provoking a broader conflict.