Regional Security Challenges

Technology and Statecraft: United States and Russia

This project is a two-year program to build knowledge and connections for understanding and communicating how strategic communities in Russia and the United States envision and use various policy instruments to advance respective foreign policy objectives.

Global Nuclear Security: Limited Nuclear Weapons Free Zone

Background And Concept: Limited Nuclear Weapons Free Zone – Northeast Asia (LNWFZ-NEA)

In 1991, the United States took steps to remove nuclear weapons from its operational ground forces and fleets throughout the world. This had an impact on the Korean Peninsula, facilitating treaties for the denuclearization of the peninsula between the North and the South. In the wake of this move, CISTP proposed the formation of a cooperative security community in Northeast Asia.

Global Nuclear Security

Overview

This program addresses the nonproliferation challenges associated with the burgeoning global renaissance of the commercial nuclear sector. Amid shifting technological, strategic, market, and legal landscapes, the nuclear weapons “have” and “have-not” states alike have struggled to extend credible commitments to separate civilian and military nuclear programs; and to provide secure, equitable, reliable, verifiable, and non-discriminatory fuel supply guarantees and spent fuel management.

Information Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection

More than 1.5 billion people in over 200 countries now spend a great deal of time in cyberspace. We work and shop there. We are educated and entertained there. We socialize with family, friends, and strangers in cyberspace. We are paid and we pay others through this medium. Tens of millions of commercial enterprises, and local, state, national, and international agencies do their business there. It has become a critical infrastructure in its own right, and it is embedded in almost all other critical infrastructures.