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This collection of essays addresses the interplay of democratic norms and cultural identity within Asia. The overall question for the volume is how the dueling identities of Asianism (regional exceptionalism) and universalism (democratic norms) are shaping state discourse and behavior in Asia.

An effort to model U.S.-China economic conflict finds that Washington and Beijing are set on a path of continued escalation. The report makes recommendations for U.S. policymakers seeking to engage in successful economic bargaining with China.

Charting new directions for Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), this report emphasizes the need for leadership, uniformity, transparency and discipline in the regulatory process. It offers an historical perspective, and analyzes the move toward guiding principles rather than prescriptive rules.

Fifteen nuclear reactors of the type that exploded at Chernobyl in April 1986 are still operating in Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania, who refuse to shut them down. This report defines policy options for the acceptable resolution of the nuclear-power safety issues facing the former Soviet Union.

The Haitian political and economic crisis since the overthrow of Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991 has been a story of societal decline. This case study examines the conflict between longer-term development objectives and the shorter-term US foreign-policy objectives that almost always override them.

A CSIS report which explains why AIDS is a security issue, an economic-development issue, a human-rights issue, and an issue for corporate interest. It argues that deterring the spread of AIDS is a global challenge requiring a global strategic response.

With the conclusion of a Chemical Weapons Convention and its expected entry into force in the next few years, policy analysis must begin to focus on the interim tasks associated with implementing the treaty. This volume reviews the thinking of experts inside and outside government.

This report, phase III of CSIS's research on defence reform, builds on the Center's previous analyses. Phase I assessed the implementation of the Packard Commission recommendations and the Goldwater-Nichols legislation, while phase II focused on the Bush administraton and the 101st Congress.

How should Russia's "national interests" be redefined to suit its new relationship with the outside world. In this book, a distinguished multinational group of contributors come together to address rival conceptions of what constitutes Russia's military, economic, and political interests.

This report tracks the changing conceptual and political landscape of U.S. nuclear deterrence to illuminate the gap in prioritizing the nuclear arsenal and to build a compelling rationale for tactical personnel explaining the role and value of U.S. nuclear weapons.

Most violent conflicts since the turn of this century were in countries that had experienced an earlier violent conflict. How can we tell when a country is likely to remain stuck in a cycle of violence? What factors suggest it might be "ripe" for stabilizing and peace building?

China faces increasing economic headwinds that call into question not only its near-term growth outlook but the longer-term sustainability of its economic success.

This report presents an open source analysis of North Korea's cyber operations capabilities and its strategic implications for the United States and South Korea. The purpose is to mitigate the current knowledge gap among various academic and policy communities on the topic by synthesizing authoritative and comprehensive open source reference material.

Maintaining international security and pursuing American interests is more difficult now than perhaps at any time in history. The security environment that the United States faces is more complex, dynamic, and difficult to predict. At the same time, no domestic consensus exists on the purposes of American power and how best to pursue them. The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) will look ahead in this annual volume at the "flashpoints" that will likely arise in 2015, how best to deal with them, and what lasting effects they might leave for the next American administration and its allies around the world.

This report presents key findings on the strategic landscape in Asia with respect to questions of power, norms, and regional institutions.

This report analyzes four key aspects of US and Iranian strategic competition--sanctions, energy, arms control, and regime change. Its primary focus is on the ways in which the sanctions applied to Iran have changed US and Iranian competition since the fall of 2011.

This report outlines the status of biotechnology regulatory structures in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, with a focus on regulation of genetically modified (GM) crops. Effective regulatory structures are important for the approval and use of agricultural technology.

The CSIS Working Group on Private-Sector Development in Fragile, Conflict-Affected, and Violent States identifies tools available to the international business community and the U.S. government to assist these countries, as well as the gaps in needed resources.

Potential sales of billions of dollars of energy equipment produced by U.S. companies are at stake in the major economies of the region. They are expected to import as much as $16 billion worth of energy products over the next few years to power their economic growth. But unless the United States launches new initiatives to snare sizable shares of this investment, U.S. companies are unlikely to be major players in all this trade.

This report traces the evolution of Hamas's health care services from the movement's origins to its current role as the de facto government of Gaza.

This report examines police reform in the Americas and suggests a strategic approach--considering trends, the threat environment, available resources, institutional strengths and weaknesses, and leadership--that will permit U.S. assistance to be successful.

"A Report of the CSIS Americas Program In cooperation with The Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies National Defense University."

"A report of the CSIS Energy and National Security Program."