Defense and Security

CSIS hosted an event with the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Gary Roughead, USN. Admiral Roughead discussed the following subjects:

CSIS hosted a Statesmen’s Forum with Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, president of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government, on “Somalia: Promoting Peace through International Engagement.”   

President Sharif spoke in Somali with a continuous English translation.  He took questions from the audience after his remarks. 

A discussion was held for the publication Countering Threats to Security and Stability in a Failing State.

Introduction by:
John J. Hamre
President and CEO of CSIS

Panel discussion with:
Peter DeShazo and Johanna Mendelson Forman

Moderated by Karin von Hippel

Mark Ward discusses progress made in initiating more Afghan-led development initiatives in some of the most difficult Taliban strong-holds in Afghanistan. 

The Mesoamerican corridor has long facilitated the illegal movement of drugs north to the United States and of arms from the United States to Mexico and countries further south.  Humans and endangered species also form part of the flow of illegal traffic bound for markets in the United States and beyond.  Evidence suggests that the traffic of drugs, arms, people and animals in

The Honorable Urmas Paet, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia, and The Honorable Kurt Volker, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO, will engage in an informal dialogue on critical challenges and issues facing transatlantic relations.

Remarks by:

Admiral Timothy Keating
Commander, U.S. Pacific Command

"A Combatant Commander's Perspective on Security in the Asia-Pacific"

The CSIS Complexity project's first phase which led to the publication of “Organizing for a Complex World: Developing Tomorrow’s Defense and Net-Centric Systems.” Phase II is proposing and assessing ways to measure success in complex program management and ways for organizations to a