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CSIS Higher Education Initiative

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400

The goal of the Higher Education Initiative is to prepare tomorrow’s leaders to think and act strategically by offering them a unique, hands-on learning experience that will transform their intellectual approach to global issues.

To download a copy of our brochure please click on the above link.

Seven Revolutions Student Guide

scotta — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400

CSIS has entered into a partnership with the New York Times Knowledge Network and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities to develop curricula based on Seven Revolutions across various academic disciplines.

Educating Globally Competent Citizens

jdunton — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0400

It is increasingly difficult for leaders to act in the short term in ways that will yield positive, long-term results. Instant information flows are bringing planning horizons closer and closer to the present; pressures from multiple stakeholders are eroding prospects for consensus. Are we preparing our students, the next generation of leaders, for this kind of flat world?

Water and Agriculture: Implications for Development and Growth

jdunton — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

At a time of mounting population pressures, environmental declines, and growing demand for water, the Paul H.

Declaration on U.S. Policy and the Global Challenge of Water

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400

The United States now has the opportunity to take a global leadership position on a critical resource—water—that will become even more critical in the future. The world over, water is intricately linked to the stability and security of communities and nations, human health, education, economic prosperity, humanitarian relief, and stewardship of the physical environment.

Global Water Futures

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400

U.S. policies on the range of pressing international water-related issues—humanitarian relief, human health, economic development, environmental stewardship, and stability and security—are fragmented, underresourced, and insufficiently coordinated. In particular, both the U.S.

Water and Energy Futures in an Urbanized Asia

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Urbanization is taking the world by storm. In the last 107 years, the proportion of humanity living in cities has skyrocketed from 13 to 50 percent. This trend can be expected to continue. The United Nations predicts that 60 percent of the global population will live in cities by 2030.

Below the Surface

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0400

In the last few weeks, we have seen a torrent of articles and news reports on the subject.

Future Watch, May 2007: Navigating the Future: The People, the Plans, and the Policies Guiding Leading Organizations

Fri, 18 May 2007 00:00:00 -0400

As part of its mandate to address longer-term trends in the world, the CSIS Global Strategy Institute (GSI) dedicated its third anniversary conference to exploring various institutional strategies for …

Future Watch, October 2006: Flexicurity-Denmark-Style

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0400

Denmark is an island in a sea of economic uncertainty. With an unemployment rate of only 4.4% compared to Europe [Euro area] at 7.8%, and with a quarterly GDP growth rate booming at 7.8% while the Euro average sits at 3.6%, Denmark’s economy is demonstrating remarkable vitality despite an aging population, high levels of social welfare, and the pressures of globalization.

Future Watch, August 2006: Assessing the Global Risk of Chronic Diseases

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0400

Recent events in the world of public health, including the International AIDS Conference in Toronto and the $500 million Gates Foundation grant to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, have once again catapulted the issue of global health into the public spotlight. However, chronic disease—an issue often neglected but equally significant to our strategic interests

Future Watch, July 2006: Taking Stock of Global Water Challenges and U.S. Foreign Policy

Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0400

U.S. policy on international water now stands at an inflection point. Late last year Congress approved legislation that would streamline the process by which U.S. international water policy was formulated and increase the level of resources allocated to water as part of U.S. development assistance.

Future Watch, June 2006: China's Energy Outlook: Securing a Path for Development

Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0400

As the summer months approach and oil prices continue to climb, we wonder: are we entering a new energy era? This month, Future Watch reviews China’s energy outlook and its impact upon the global market, discussing critical economic, geopolitical, and environmental implications. The article also highlights key points from the recent CSIS-IIE publication, Chin

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Future Watch, May 2006: The Changing Face of Risk

Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 -0400

The list of major disasters—both natural and inflicted by humans—over the past 18 months has been nothing short of overwhelming. By now it is cliché to say that 911 fundamentally altered …

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Global Strategy Institute Strategic Vision Award

Thu, 20 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0400

The Strategic Vision Award honors leaders who, when faced with short term pressures and the difï¬?cult challenge of extending planning horizons, proceed to formulate creative and innovative approaches …

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Water Makes Sense

Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0500

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Future Watch, December 2005: A Strategy For Irregular Warfare

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0500

Defense experts and policymakers are struggling with a critical question: What is irregular warfare and is the U.S. military truly ready to embrace it? This question is likely to undergo close examination in the forthcoming Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), due to be released in 2006, and the answer will be influenced in part by the past, present, and future of the U.S.

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Future Watch, November 2005: Fragile States: A Strategy for Engagement

Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0500

Fragile states—those countries and societies dangerously close to humanitarian, economic, or political collapse—are threatening security across the planet. The threat of these states exceeeds traditional international response capacities and redefines issues of sovereignty.

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Future Watch, October 2005: Hydrogen: The Fuel of the Future?

Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0400

Auto industries, science laboratories, and governments have turned greater attention toward hydrogen as a possible alternative fuel to succeed both in widespread production and distribution. The U.S. Department of Energy does not believe that a large scale hydrogen economy is likely until at least 2020, and many believe even that is an overly optimistic timeline.

Future Watch, October 2005: Revisiting Assumptions in OECD Reform Recommendations

Sat, 01 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0400

Jean-Philippe Cotis, the OECD’s chief economist, presented the Organization’s new annual report: "Economic Policy Reforms: Going for Growth." It is the duty of the OECD to identify,…

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Addressing Our Global Water Future

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0400

On September 28, 2005, after a year of extensive background research, two conferences hosted in February and March 2005, and collaboration with several experts, the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Sandia National Laboratories released a White Paper outlining the major conclusions of the Global Water Futures project.

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Future Watch, September 28, 2005: The Changing Economics of Defense Spending

Wed, 28 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0400

The United States presently faces a global war on terrorism likely to continue for years. Major troop deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan have uncertain end dates. The national debt is fast increasing. Can we afford this defense posture? Yes, we can.

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Future Watch, August 2005: China's HIV/AIDS Crisis

Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0400

While SARS and avian flu make headlines across the world, another deadly, less apparent disease is creeping across China at rates that could have serious implications for the health of the Chinese people and the country’s economic future.

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Future Watch, June 2, 2005: The Tigris and Euphrates River Basins: A New Look at Development

Thu, 02 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0400

Examine any issue in the broader Middle East region today—from Turkey’s possible European Union accession to Syria’s withdrawal from Lebanon to the insurgency in Iraq—and thequestion …

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Future Watch, June 2005: The Failed State Industry

Wed, 01 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0400

Drawing heavily from experience in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. policymakers continue to wrestle with the question of how to transform failed and weakened states. Francis Fukuyama, Professor in International …

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Future Watch, April 2005: Scanning the Horizon: An Assessment of Critical Global Trends

Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:00:00 -0500

The CSIS Global Strategy Institute (GSI) marked its first-year anniversary on April 22, 2005 with a day of strategic insight and longrange considerations. In keeping with the mandate of the Institute, …

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Future Watch, September 2004: Technology and Social Change in the Middle East

Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:00:00 -0400

At a July 2004 Global Strategy Institute Forum, Jon Alterman, director of the CSIS Middle East Program, warned that such trends could even have a severely disruptive effect in the Arab world. While the …

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Future Watch, July 2004: Paying for the Aging Revolution in China

Thu, 01 Jul 2004 00:00:00 -0400

Will China grow rich before it grows old? That is the question on many minds these days considering the demographic transformation about to unfold in the Middle Kingdom. Over the next 35 years, while China …

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FYI 11 - Shaping Russia's Tomorrow

Thu, 07 Aug 2003 00:00:00 -0400

This issue examines the future of Russia and the challenges that it may face in population decline, lagging industry, HIV/AIDS, and an obsolete infrastructure.

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FYI 10 - Probing the Consequences of Biotechnology: A Conversation with Francis Fukuyama

Fri, 16 May 2003 00:00:00 -0400

This issue summarizes our meeting with Francis Fukuyama, a scholar whose ideas put into perspective development in biotechnology and public policy.

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FYI 9 - SARS: Lessons for the Longer Term

Wed, 23 Apr 2003 00:00:00 -0400

This issue discusses the SARS epidemic and its relation to the revolutions of knowledge diffusion, cross-border economic integration, conflict, and governance.

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FYI 6 - Derivative Terrorism

Fri, 31 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0500

Issue 6 focuses on what has been labeled "derivative terrorism" and summarizes the results of "Silent Vector," a high-level simulation at CSIS in October 2002.

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FYI 4 - Global Engergy

Thu, 12 Dec 2002 00:00:00 -0500

This issue of FYI looks at long-range projections on supply-demand trends from the International Energy Agency.

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FYI 3 - Naming Names, Aging, and Vulnerability

Mon, 02 Dec 2002 00:00:00 -0500

This issue highlights a cutting-edge report at CSIS on the economics and financial vulnerabilities associated with demographic structures in key economies across the world.

FYI 2 - What Institutions Do The Public Trust?

Mon, 25 Nov 2002 00:00:00 -0500

This issue of FYI considers the implications of a poll conducted for the World Economic Forum by Gallup International and Environics. The poll asked 36,000 citizens in 47 countries across six continents to rate which institutions they trusted.