Please join the Center for Strategic and International Studies for a Smart Women, Smart Power conversation with former U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH). She will discuss the Syria conflict, Russia, Iran, and North Korea and share her insights on other security challenges, including China, and shifting dynamics in the Middle East. Her leadership of CSIS' new health security commission will also be a focus of discussion.

Please join CSIS for a conversation with NASA Administrator Major General Charles F. Bolden, Jr., USMC, Ret. This wide ranging discussion will explore NASA's past, present, and future role in foreign relations to include NASA's contributions to U.S. national security and international security more broadly.

The Zbigniew Brzezinski Annual Prize honors the legacy of Dr. Brzezinski by recognizing and promoting the importance of geostrategic thinking with a transcending moral purpose.

Inaugural Prize Recipient

Robert M. Gates

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense

Listen as the 19th Chairmain of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph F. Dunford, discusses how the Department of Defense is thinking about meeting all of today's global security challenges.

Join the Smart Women, Smart Power Initiative for a panel discussion and question and answer session featuring 45 current and former U.S. ambassadors. They'll explore issues contributing to global insecurity, mass migration, refugees, war and conflict in regional hotspots, as well as tensions in the South China Sea.

The CSIS International Security Program hosted a conference on the recently released 2017 defense budget request and strategic priorities. During the first panel, Mike McCord, Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), Dr.

Listen as the chairman of the National Intelligence Council, Gregory Treverton, joins CSIS to discuss the NIC and its connection to policy, focusing on the organization’s key challenge: how to balance the desire for immediate support to policymakers with th

This event is part of a speaker series on the challenges faced by and in the region in 2016, including the implementation of the Iran nuclear deal, the fifth anniversary of the Arab uprisings, and a potential turning point in the battle against the Islamic State group. The first session highlights the view from the region.

Listen as Tinatin Khidasheli, Defense Minister of Georgia, discusses the Georgian government’s views on its relationship with NATO and the West’s relationship with the Kremlin following Russia’s military intervention in Syria and terrorist attacks in Paris.