Events

The future of coal - the world's dominant fuel for more than a century - continues to be one of the most pressing questions in the energy sector. Coal is under pressure in many regions of the world for its contribution to greenhouse gases.

As Asia's infrastructure competition unfolds, interest in how infrastructure investment is carried out has been rising. China’s Belt & Road Initiative, which aspires to connect nearly two-thirds of the global population and 60 percent of its GDP, along with other infrastructure initiatives across the region have raised the premium on understanding different approaches.

A bottom-up approach to agricultural policy and regulation is necessary to bridge the needs at the farm with the requirements of the market.

Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson authorized the Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) program in Vietnam. Integrating civil and military organizations within a military chain of command, the program became an archetype for civil-military collaboration, but one that has been controversial and difficult to replicate.

Please join CSIS and the United States Naval Institute (USNI) for a Maritime Security Dialogue event featuring a discussion with Rear Admiral Jon A. Hill, Deputy Director, Missile Defense Agency, on the evolving threats and new priorities for ballistic missile defense in the maritime domain.

This session features Susan Reichle, President and COO of the International Youth Foundation. She came to the organization with 25 years of experience leading USAID policy development and programs overseas and in Washington, D.C.

The current system of trade enforcement is under stress from market-distorting policies in state-capitalist economies like China; inadequacies in the toolkit of trade remedies in the United States; and weaknesses in the WTO dispute settlement system, which combined have led to increased skepticism of the merits of free trade and growing support for more protectionist policies.

Why, since the end of World War II, has the United States either lost every war it started or failed in every military intervention it prosecuted? Harlan Ullman’s new book addresses this most disturbing question, one Americans would never think of considering because this record of failure has been largely hidden in plain sight or forgotten with the passage of time.

In the early 1990s, President George H. W. Bush launched a series of country-focused “Enterprise Funds,” which are U.S. government dollars funding investment in developing countries. Enterprise Funds were given the unique and double mandate of making money and doing development—generating blended results.

After more than 23 years of successful economic cooperation, supporting 14 million U.S. jobs and generating $1.2 trillion of commerce each year, the trade agreement is now being renegotiated and faces very tough challenges as the U.S. administration is pursuing major changes, not just a modernization.