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The Nature of Strength

As agriculture faces growing biological and environmental threats, crop biodiversity is vital to maintaining and building resilience. CSIS experts examine how agrobiodiversity, and the genebanks that safeguard it, are strategic assets ensuring a more secure future.

Digital Report by Zane Swanson and Caitlin Welsh — June 11, 2025

Scenarios That Could Define 2035

This scenario series from the CSIS Brzezinski Chair explores possible futures for 2035—not to predict outcomes, but to prepare for them. With expert comments, the scenarios examine key drivers, second-order effects, and warning signs to inform strategic foresight.

Digital Report by Jon B. Alterman — May 14, 2025

China Stalls

A new scenario by Jon B. Alterman, with comments from leading experts, explores the challenges facing China’s economy and considers how a sustained slowdown could sap Beijing’s global influence and reshape the international order.

Digital Report by Jon B. Alterman — May 14, 2025

Trust Fails

A new scenario by Jon B. Alterman, with comments from leading experts, explores how technology has both built and broken trust—examining how disinformation, cyber threats, and digital decay could fracture societies, disrupt trade, and weaken global cooperation.

Digital Report by Jon B. Alterman — May 14, 2025

U.S. Global Leadership Falters

A new scenario by Jon B. Alterman, with comments from leading experts, explores what a U.S. retreat from global leadership could look like—examining the political, economic, and strategic fallout of a diminished role and how it might reshape global power dynamics.

Digital Report by Jon B. Alterman — May 14, 2025

Insights for Future Conflicts from the Russia-Ukraine War

The Russia-Ukraine conflict shocked the world, unfolding a story of adaptation, resilience, and innovation with global implications. Drawing from analysis and news coverage, this report distills 10 insights that will shape the next war.  

Digital Report by Krista Auchenbach, Nathan Lewis, Scott Murphy, Quinton Packard, Scott Pence, Luke Slivinski, and Matthew Slusher — May 8, 2025

Crossroads of Commerce: How the Taiwan Strait Propels the Global Economy

This report provides an unprecedented look at the Taiwan Strait’s role in global trade, revealing that over one-fifth of all maritime commerce passes through this vital waterway. China possesses a range of non-kinetic options it may employ to coerce Taiwan, which could significantly disrupt this trade.
 

Digital Report by Matthew P. Funaiole, Brian Hart, David Peng, Bonny Lin, and Jasper Verschuur — October 10, 2024

The Global Impact of the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election

The inaugural report from the CSIS Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department features insights from 21 leading CSIS experts examining how regional leaders are preparing for shifts in U.S. global leadership—regardless of the outcome of the 2024 presidential election.

Digital Report by The CSIS Geopolitics & Foreign Policy Department — September 26, 2024