This analysis of IS-K was published in 2018 and is not being updated. For a more recent analysis of Islamic State Khorasan from the Transnational Threats Project, please click here. Islamic State ...

Margarita R. Seminario served as senior fellow and deputy director of the Americas Program at the Center for International and Strategic Studies from 2019 to 2022. She also worked with the Foreign ...

The Russia and Eurasia Program examines the rapid rise in HIV/AIDS cases in Russia and Eurasia and the consequences if the pandemic is left unchecked Until the mid-1990s, Russia and Eurasia had ...

As a democracy, the US cannot strategize intelligently unless the American people are sensitive to the changing global memories of the global population and to the imperatives of global geography ...

John Simon is a founding partner at Total Impact Capital. Previously, Ambassador Simon was a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development, where he coauthored More than Money, a report on ...

Richard Crespin serves as CEO of CollaborateUp and as a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He advises businesses, governments, and nonprofits on how to work ...

CSIS held the public release of the new report, "The U.S.-Japan Alliance: Getting Asia Right through 2020," with Richard L. Armitage and report contributors. The report outlines the findings of a ...

Idayat Hassan is an expert with over 20 years of experience fostering peace, democracy, and development across West Africa. As the former director of the Centre for Democracy and Development, she ...

South Korea’s surprise economic contraction in the first quarter shows it was one of the first countries to feel the negative effects of U.S. President Donald Trump’s effort to reshape international ...

On May 16, 2025, Moody’s downgraded the United States’ credit rating, making it the last major rating agency to strip the United States of its Aaa rating. This downgrade is more than a technical ...

On May 7, 2025, India launched missile strikes in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Jammu and Kashmir. India stated that the strikes targeted terrorist infrastructure, while Pakistan rejected India’s ...