The outbreak of general war between Israel and Iran casts a shadow over global energy security, lending a whiplash effect to oil prices that have recently been weighed down by slowing demand and ...

The United States is preparing for a confrontation with China even as U.S. officials meet with their counterparts for the 2025 NATO Summit. NATO members can, and should, play an important role in the ...

On Saturday, June 21, the United States attacked three facilities in Iran critical to Tehran’s nuclear program. The attack, named Operation Midnight Hammer, included a strike package of seven B-2 ...

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Bushehr, Tehran, and Arak Reactors. Attacking large operational light water reactors like the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant would pose the greatest contamination risk due to high inventories of ...

Commentary is produced by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a private, tax-exempt institution focusing on international public policy issues. Its research is nonpartisan and ...

The escalating conflict in the Middle East is prompting fresh concerns about global energy security. With oil prices rapidly fluctuating in response to dynamic events, markets are attempting to ...

Trump’s decision to bomb three of Iran’s nuclear sites was probably the right call. Many will say that the United States risks a broad and disastrous war, but that is far from the most likely outcome.

Please join the Impossible State podcast for a discussion on President Lee Jae-myung’s new government and his debut at the G7 Summit. The conversation will be moderated by Dr. Victor Cha and will ...

In recent years, a new bipartisan mantra has taken hold: National security is economic security, and economic security is national security. This idea led the United States to pursue a supply chain de ...

The ongoing Israeli bombings of Iranian nuclear facilities and Tehran’s threats to develop a nuclear weapon clearly indicate that the nonproliferation regime is entering a more volatile phase. Iran’s ...