The CSIS Australia Chair cordially invites you to a virtual “Book Event: White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan.”Thursday, March 30, 2023, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm ESTFriday, March 31, 2023, 5:00 am – 6:00 pm AEST How might a war for Taiwan break out? How would it be fought? Who would win? And, what would its aftermath mean for the Taiwan, for China, for the United States, and for the world?To discuss these questions, please join us at CSIS on March 30th at 2:00pm EST (March 31st, 5:00am AEST), for a virtual discussion with Mick Ryan, retired Australian Army major general and non-resident fellow with the CSIS Australia Chair, about his new book, White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan.Dr. Charles Edel, Dr. Eliot Cohen, and Emily Harding will join Mick Ryan to talk about his new book, examine how new organisations, new concepts and new technologies are chainging contemporary warfare, and discuss the implications for U.S.-Chinese competition.CSIS’s Australia Chair conducts independent policy research aimed at strengthening U.S.-Australia relations. The Chair is endowed through the generosity of Pratt Industries.———————————————A nonpartisan institution, CSIS is the top national security think tank in the world. Visit www.csis.org to find more of our work as we bring bipartisan solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.Want to see more videos and virtual events? Subscribe to this channel and turn on notifications: https://cs.is/2dCfTveFollow CSIS on:• Twitter: www.twitter.com/csis• Facebook: www.facebook.com/CSIS.org• Instagram: www.instagram.com/csis/
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For the last several months, Israel has been in an unprecedented internal upheaval – perhaps the greatest since its formation in 1948. The trigger for this upheaval was the government’s attempt to check the power of its judiciary branch, which over the last 30 years has asserted such control that it threatens the very principle of parliamentary sovereignty as the voice of the people. The government’s reform package was designed to address at least in part some of the most egregious excesses of the judiciary’s distorted power, but the initiative was met by an overwhelming tidal wave of organized resistance with both domestic and foreign dimensions. Consequently on Monday, March 27, after 2 months of unrest, the government was forced to pause the reform process and regroup. Many voices on the left, however, have doubled down on demands and insist the current Israeli government must be brought down – despite it having just been elected.
Dr. Kathleen McInnis, Director of the Smart Women, Smart Power Initiative, sat down with Gayle E. Smith, the CEO of the ONE Campaign,to discuss her role in leading the U.S. effort to end the global pandemic. Additionally, Gayle discussed her priorities at the ONE Campaign, including her take on hard and soft power and how it interrelates with gender.———————————————A nonpartisan institution, CSIS is the top national security think tank in the world. Visit www.csis.org to find more of our work as we bring bipartisan solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.Want to see more videos and virtual events? Subscribe to this channel and turn on notifications: https://cs.is/2dCfTveFollow CSIS on:• Twitter: www.twitter.com/csis• Facebook: www.facebook.com/CSIS.org• Instagram: www.instagram.com/csis/
This event will focus on the role of the World Bank and the private sector in the future of global development. Since its founding in 1947, the World Bank Group has funded over 12,000 development projects across its 189 member countries, via traditional loans, interest-free credits, and grants.Under the leadership of President David Malpass, the World Bank Group has mobilized over $440 billion in response to pressing global crises. President Malpass doubled climate financing in developing countries, and his dedication to alleviating global poverty and improving standards of living through private sector engagement has defined the work of the World Bank Group over the past four years.As the World Bank enters a new chapter, it will need to remember the crucial role that the private sector plays in promoting growth in developing countries. Please join CSIS in welcoming President Malpass for an interview on the topic and stay tuned for an in-depth panel discussion with leading experts and scholars. This event was made possible through general support to CSIS.———————————————A nonpartisan institution, CSIS is the top national security think tank in the world. Visit www.csis.org to find more of our work as we bring bipartisan solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.Want to see more videos and virtual events? Subscribe to this channel and turn on notifications: https://cs.is/2dCfTveFollow CSIS on:• Twitter: www.twitter.com/csis• Facebook: www.facebook.com/CSIS.org• Instagram: www.instagram.com/csis/
The CSIS Japan Chair cordially invites you to Strategic Japan: Japan’s Realism DiplomacyWednesday, March 29, 202310:00 am – 11:30am ETStrategic Japan is a CSIS Japan Chair initiative to introduce research from Japanese scholars on regional and global challenges and the implications for the U.S.-Japan alliance. This year, the Japan Chair invited four scholars to explore elements of the Kishida administration’s “realism diplomacy” agenda: Regional security strategy The path toward nuclear disarmament Upholding universal values Expanding official development assistanceThe panel will feature Akiyama Nobumasa, Professor of Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Law and Dean of Hitotsubashi School of International and Public Policy; Michishita Narushige, Vice President and Professor at National Graduate Institute of Policy Studies (GRIPS); Murata Koji, Professor of Faculty of Law in the Department of Political Science at Doshisha University; and Shiga Hiroaki, Professor in the Faculty of International Social Sciences at Yokohama National University. The event will be moderated by CSIS Senior Adviser and Japan Chair, Christopher B. Johnstone.This event is made possible with support from the Government of Japan.———————————————A nonpartisan institution, CSIS is the top national security think tank in the world. Visit www.csis.org to find more of our work as we bring bipartisan solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.Want to see more videos and virtual events? Subscribe to this channel and turn on notifications: https://cs.is/2dCfTveFollow CSIS on:• Twitter: www.twitter.com/csis• Facebook: www.facebook.com/CSIS.org• Instagram: www.instagram.com/csis/
Ryan C. Berg, Director of the Americas Program at CSIS, was joined by Dr. Lorenzo Cordova Vianello, director of Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE), for a presentation on the state of democracy in Mexico and the outlook of institutions in the country. The panel also delved into policy recommendations for the United States and international community to support Mexico’s democracy.———————————————A nonpartisan institution, CSIS is the top national security think tank in the world. Visit www.csis.org to find more of our work as we bring bipartisan solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.Want to see more videos and virtual events? Subscribe to this channel and turn on notifications: https://cs.is/2dCfTveFollow CSIS on:• Twitter: www.twitter.com/csis• Facebook: www.facebook.com/CSIS.org• Instagram: www.instagram.com/csis/
Electricity shortages do more than exacerbate humanitarian crises and hamper local economies in conflict-affected environments. They also undermine governance and hold communities back long after fighting has ended. Improving the provision of power can accelerate economic development, advance peacebuilding, and set communities on a pathway of greater environmental sustainability. Please join the CSIS Middle East Program for a conversation about international efforts to support resilient renewable energy infrastructure in fragile states in the Middle East. Matthew D. Steinhelfer, Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations at the U.S. Department of State will provide a keynote address. He will then join a panel discussion with Christina Abi Haidar, a Lebanese lawyer and renewable energy expert, Dr. Paul Noumba Um, the World Bank’s director of infrastructure for the MENA region, and Will Todman, fellow in CSIS Middle East Program and author of Powering Recovery: Reform, Reconstruction, and Renewables in Conflict-Affected States in the Arab World moderated by Dr. Jon Alterman. This event presents the findings of a project supported by the Embassy of Qatar. The views expressed in the report are wholly those of the authors, and the opinions and recommendations at this event should be understood to be those of the speakers themselves, and not CSIS or any other entity.Questions form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdsMudgdiW4yqtjk33YMXVSdq202Ho5ln0uaaK13g-NeQhx4A/viewform———————————————A nonpartisan institution, CSIS is the top national security think tank in the world. Visit www.csis.org to find more of our work as we bring bipartisan solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.Want to see more videos and virtual events? Subscribe to this channel and turn on notifications: https://cs.is/2dCfTveFollow CSIS on:• Twitter: www.twitter.com/csis• Facebook: www.facebook.com/CSIS.org• Instagram: www.instagram.com/csis/
The military turbofan market proliferates technology as nations, especially China, gain expertise and equipment that would allow them to build modern jet engines. A CSIS’s new brief explores China’s push to modernize alongside broader dynamics in the global military engine market.Read the full report: https://cs.is/3LCxhzF———————————————A nonpartisan institution, CSIS is the top national security think tank in the world. Visit www.csis.org to find more of our work as we bring bipartisan solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.Want to see more videos and virtual events? Subscribe to this channel and turn on notifications: https://cs.is/2dCfTveFollow CSIS on:• Twitter: www.twitter.com/csis• Facebook: www.facebook.com/CSIS.org• Instagram: www.instagram.com/csis/
Please join the CSIS International Security Program and the U.S. Naval Institute for a Maritime Security Dialogue event featuring Admiral Harry Harris Jr., USN (Ret.), former Commander, U.S. Pacific Command. ADM Harris will sit down with Dr. Seth G. Jones, CSIS senior vice president and director of the International Security Program, to discuss the latest developments with AUKUS and implications for the maritime industrial base. In September 2021, the three countries announced their decision to support Australia acquiring conventionally-armed, nuclear-powered submarines. In March 2023, they announced a pathway to achieve this capability, including a trilaterally-developed submarine based on the United Kingdom’s next-generation design. But there are numerous questions that remain. For example, what are the major challenges that lie ahead? And how might they be addressed?The discussion will feature opening remarks from VADM Pete H. Daly, USN (Ret.), chief executive officer and publisher, U.S. Naval Institute, and Dr. Charles Edel, CSIS’s Australia chair. The Maritime Security Dialogue series brings together CSIS and the U.S. Naval Institute, two of the nation’s most respected non-partisan institutions. The series highlights the unique challenges facing the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard from national level maritime policy to naval concept development and program design. Given budgetary challenges, technological opportunities, and ongoing strategic adjustments, the nature and employment of U.S. maritime forces are likely to undergo significant change over the next ten to fifteen years. The Maritime Security Dialogue provides an unmatched forum for discussion of these issues with the nation’s maritime leaders.Adm. Harris served in every geographic combatant command region and participated in the following major operations: Achille Lauro terrorist hijacking incident, Attain Document III, Earnest Will, Desert Shield/Desert Storm, Southern Watch, Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, Willing Spirit, and Odyssey Dawn. Harris’ staff assignments included aide to Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Japan; speechwriter for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS); three tours on the Navy staff, including Deputy CNO for Communication Networks (OPNAV N6); assistant to the CJCS where he was the chairman’s direct representative to the secretary of state and the U.S. roadmap monitor for the Mid-East Peace Process.This event is made possible by support from HII.———————————————A nonpartisan institution, CSIS is the top national security think tank in the world. Visit www.csis.org to find more of our work as we bring bipartisan solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.Want to see more videos and virtual events? Subscribe to this channel and turn on notifications: https://cs.is/2dCfTveFollow CSIS on:• Twitter: www.twitter.com/csis• Facebook: www.facebook.com/CSIS.org• Instagram: www.instagram.com/csis/
Please join the Center for Strategic and International Studies on Wednesday, March 22, 2023, for a virtual Smart Women, Smart Power conversation with Gayle E. Smith, the CEO of the ONE Campaign. As we pass the three-year mark since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Kathleen McInnis, Director of the Smart Women, Smart Power Initiative, will sit down with Gayle to discuss her role in leading the U.S. effort to end the global pandemic. Additionally, Gayle will discuss her priorities at the ONE Campaign, including her take on hard and soft power and how it interrelates with gender.Before her current role, Gayle served as a top advisor on international issues for three American presidents and is one of the world’s leading experts on global development and global health security. She brings unparalleled expertise and an extraordinary network of relationships across the African continent and around the world. In 2021, Smith took on a temporary role at the request of the Secretary of State and served as the U.S. State Department’s Coordinator for Global COVID Response & Health Security.Prior to joining the ONE Campaign, Smith served as the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development; served as Special Assistant to President Obama and Senior Director for Development and Democracy at the National Security Council; founded the Sustainable Security Program at the Center for American Progress and co-founded the ENOUGH project and the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network. Additionally, she served as Special Assistant to President Clinton and Senior Director for African Affairs at the NSC in the late 1990s, and prior to that lived and worked in Africa for 20 years, working as a journalist and with NGOs.This event is made possible through support from Citi.———————————————A nonpartisan institution, CSIS is the top national security think tank in the world. Visit www.csis.org to find more of our work as we bring bipartisan solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.Want to see more videos and virtual events? Subscribe to this channel and turn on notifications: https://cs.is/2dCfTveFollow CSIS on:• Twitter: www.twitter.com/csis• Facebook: www.facebook.com/CSIS.org• Instagram: www.instagram.com/csis/
In the last two months, the U.S. has faced three challenges to its position in the Middle East: Dramatic unrest in Israel over the government’s efforts to reform its judicial system, the Iranian breakout in enriching uranium essentially to bomb-grade levels, and the rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, sponsored by China, in talks in which all sides agreed to ban any use of English during the deliberations.While all three events in their own right signify a major setback for the Untied States’ position in the region, the U.S. not only failed to respond to Iran’s enrichment, but actually welcomed and claimed it encouraged the Chinese-led brokering of the Saudi-Iran agreement. And rather than calm the unrest in Israel, the U.S. has apparently orchestrated foreign pressure against the government’s reform plans, and funded one of the leading organizations that seeks the current destabilizing and encourage the unrest in Israel, and perhaps others.
Please join the CSIS Missile Defense Project and Reagan Institute for a conference commemorating the 40th anniversary of President Reagan’s 1983 speech on the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). We will discuss the broad impacts of SDI, how missile defense has evolved since then, and future U.S. missile defense strategy, programs, and budgets. Introduction: 9:00-9:05am Speaker to be announced Congressional Perspective: 9:05-10:00am Tom Karako (moderator), CSIS Senior Fellow Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO, 5th District), Chairman of the Strategic Subcommittee, House Armed Services Committee Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA, 6th District), Ranking Member of the Strategic Subcommittee, House Armed Services CommitteeSDI: Historical and Policy Reflections: 10:10-11:15am Anthony Eames (moderator), Director of Scholarly Initiatives, Reagan Foundation Kiron Skinner, Former Director of Policy Planning, U.S. State Department; Taube Professor of International Relations and Politics, Pepperdine School of Public Policy Ken Adelman, Former Director, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Peppi DeBiaso, Former Director, Office of Missile Defense Policy, U.S. Department of Defense Aaron Bateman, Assistant Professor of History and International Affairs, George Washington University The Missile Defense Agency’s 2024 Budget Request: 11:25am-12:40pm Tom Karako (moderator), CSIS Senior Fellow Vice Admiral Jon Hill, Director, U.S. Missile Defense AgencyLunch Break: 12:40-1:00pmAfternoon Introduction: 1:00-1:05pm Mr. Roger Zakheim, Director of the Ronald Reagan InstituteThe Industrial Base for Missile Defense: 1:05-2:00pm Anthony Eames (moderator), Director of Scholarly Initiatives, Reagan Foundation John Stetson, Senior Technical Fellow, Lockheed Martin Corporation Tay Fitzgerald, President of Strategic Missile Defense, Raytheon Missiles & Defense Lisa Brown, Vice President & PM for Next Generation Interceptor, Northrop Grumman Corporation Debbie Barnett, Vice President & Program Director, Boeing CorporationThis event is made possible through general support to CSIS.———————————————A nonpartisan institution, CSIS is the top national security think tank in the world. Visit www.csis.org to find more of our work as we bring bipartisan solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.Want to see more videos and virtual events? Subscribe to this channel and turn on notifications: https://cs.is/2dCfTveFollow CSIS on:• Twitter: www.twitter.com/csis• Facebook: www.facebook.com/CSIS.org• Instagram: www.instagram.com/csis/