Center For Strategic International Studies imprint: 249 books
Restoring Restraint
Enforcing Accountability for Users of Chemical Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
In 2012, a 20-year moratorium on state employment of chemical weapons use was broken. Since then, there have been more than 200 uses, against civilians, military targets, and political enemies. These attacks have broken norms against the use of weapons of mass destruction and create a gap in the nonproliferation...
Rethinking Absorptive Capacity
A New Framework, Applied to Afghanistan's Police Training Program
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
When recipients cannot absorb the aid and attention they are offered, the common response is “capacity building”—as if the source of the problem is the recipient’s implementation capacity. In this report, Robert D. Lamb and Kathryn Mixon present the results of their research on the sources...
Her Health, Her Lifetime, Our World
Unlocking the Potential of Adolescent Girls and Young Women
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
CSIS launched the Task Force on Women’s and Family Health in the belief that there is an exceptional opportunity—and pressing need—for U.S. leadership in this critical area. The Task Force has generated a bold vision, detailed in this report, for a major U.S. initiative by the Trump administration...
by Jesse Ellman, Gregory Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
This report analyzes contracting for products, services, and research development by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its key components. In provides an in-depth look at trends in DHS contracting since the establishment of the agency and provides an initial picture of the impact that...
Defense Modernization Plans through the 2020s
Addressing the Bow Wave
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
This report details the plans for major U.S. Defense Department acquisition programs over the next 15 years and explores the complicating factors that may make the situation more problematic for policymakers. It analyzes a range of options to mitigate the bow wave, including increasing the budget,...
Russia's Contribution to China's Surface Warfare Capabilities
Feeding the Dragon
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
The provision of advanced Russian military technology has been critical for the development of China’s anti-access/area-denial (A2AD) capability. This study focuses on one aspect of the relationship, namely Russia’s contribution to the PLA Navy’s surface and anti-surface warfare capabilities....
Absorptive Capacity in the Security and Justice Sectors
Assessing Obstacles to Success in the Donor-Recipient Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
In development, stabilization, and peace building, donors increasingly recognize the importance of being sensitive to the local contexts of their efforts. Yet the use of “blueprints” remains widespread. Even when standard approaches are modified for particular aid partners, there often remains...
by Christina Perkins, Erin Nealer
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
The Northern Triangle of Latin America, consisting of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala, has experienced overwhelming challenges to economic growth and development. Gang violence is the root of many of these challenges, and the cost of hiring security forces for individuals and businesses creates...
The Army Modernization Imperative
A New Big Five for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
The U.S. Army currently faces a difficult truth: without changes to its modernization strategy, the Army risks losing qualitative tactical overmatch. A lost procurement decade and recent, significant modernization funding declines have resulted in an Army inventory that remains heavily leveraged on...
Contested Seas
Maritime Domain Awareness in Northern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Operations in littoral waters present numerous challenges for modern navies, challenges that are especially acute in the waters of the Baltic Sea and around Northern Europe. Russia’s increasing menace above, on, and under the waves—combined with its deployment of new and upgraded maritime capabilities...
Project Atom
A Competitive Strategies Approach to Defining U.S. Nuclear Strategy and Posture for 2025–2050
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Project Atom is a forward-looking, “blue-sky” review of U.S. nuclear strategy and posture in a 2025-2050 world in which nuclear weapons are still necessary. The report highlights and addresses the current deficit in national security attention paid to the continued relevance and importance of...
The Evolving U.S. Nuclear Narrative
Communicating the Rationale for the Role and Value of U.S. Nuclear Weapons, 1989 to Today
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
In recent years, it has become increasingly clear to many observers that the Department of Defense must better communicate to the officers at the tactical end of the nuclear mission a rationale for nuclear weapons and deterrence, the critical role that they play in the post–Cold War strategy of...
Citizens in Training
Conscription and Nation-building in the United Arab Emirates
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
The U.S. Marines made famous their search for “a few good men.” The United Arab Emirates (UAE), however, wants all its men—from the ages of 18 to 30—to experience the discipline and rigors of military life. To that end, for reasons of national security, nation-building, and societal development,...
The Missile Defense Agency and the Color of Money
Fewer Resources, More Responsibility, and a Growing Budget Squeeze
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
This study explores the growing competition for scarce dollars at the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA). It traces the authorities, roles, and missions assigned to the agency and the growing trend of using what was originally intended to be a research and development budget for procurement and sustainment...