CSIS

The Center for Strategic and International Studies

For four decades, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has been dedicated to providing world leaders with strategic insights on—and policy solutions to—current and emerging global issues.

CSIS is led by John J. Hamre, former U.S. deputy secretary of defense. It is guided by a board of trustees chaired by former U.S. senator Sam Nunn and consisting of prominent individuals from both the public and private sectors.

The CSIS staff of 190 researchers and support staff focus primarily on three subject areas. First, CSIS addresses the full spectrum of new challenges to national and international security. Second, it maintains resident experts on all of the world's major geographical regions. Third, it is committed to helping to develop new methods of governance for the global age; to this end, CSIS has programs on technology and public policy, international trade and finance, and energy.

Headquartered in Washington, D.C., CSIS is private, bipartisan, and tax-exempt.

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Books

Title: Civil Security: Americans and the Challenge of Homeland Security
Author: Amanda J. Dory
Date: September 2003

Title: The Iraq War: Strategy, Tactics, and Military Lessons
Author: Anthony H. Cordesman
Date: September 2003

Title: Forecasting Mexico's Democratic Transition: Scenarios for Policymakers
Author: Armand B. Peschard-Sverdrup
Date: September 2003

Title: China's New Journey to the West: China's Emergence in Central Asia and Implications for U.S. Interests
Authors: Bates Gill and Matthew Oresman
Date: August 2003

Title: Cyber Security: Turning National Solutions into International Cooperation
Author: James A. Lewis
Date: August 2003

Title: Environment and Development in Mexico: Recommendations for Reconciliation
Author: Jan Gilbreath
Date: June 2003

Title: The Debate on NATO's Evolution
Author: Margarita Assenova
Date: April 2003

Title: The European Finality Debate and Its National Dimensions
Author: Simon Serfaty
Date: April 2003

Title: Saudi Arabia Enters the Twenty-first Century (Vol I and II)
Author: Anthony H. Cordesman
Date: April 2003

Title: The Future of the Transatlantic Defense Community: Final Report of the CSIS Commission on Transatlantic Security and Industrial Cooperation in the Twenty-first Century
Author: Jean-Paul Béchat, Felix G. Rohatyn, John J. Hamre, Simon Serfaty
Date: January 2003

Title: Protecting against the Spread of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons: An Action Agenda for the Global Partnership
Author: Robert J. Einhorn and Michèle A. Flournoy
Date: January 2003

Title: U.S. Armed Forces and Homeland Defense The Legal Framework
Author: Paul Schott Stevens
Date: October 2001