Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair

Oct 17, 2024 | csis.org | Jon B. Alterman |Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair

The Israeli government announced today that its soldiers had killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in a firefight in southern Gaza. Sinwar had led Hamas in Gaza since 2017, and he was elected the chairman of the Hamas political bureau in August 2024. Sinwar was a hardliner who felt Palestinians were too conciliatory toward Israel. He was the mastermind of Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, and he was thought to have been hiding underground for much of the time since.

Oct 3, 2024 | csis.org | Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair

It has been one year since the massacre by Hamas of 1,2000 Israeli citizens and soldiers and the onset of the war inside Gaza that followed immediately. The humanitarian and health crises unfolding in Gaza amidst the conflict to follow have exceeded all expectations. ‘Gaza: The Human Toll’ is a product of the CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security in active collaboration with the CSIS Humanitarian Agenda and CSIS Middle East Program.

Sep 30, 2024 | csis.org | Jon B. Alterman |Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair

Events in the Middle East are not going the way the Biden administration had hoped. A year ago, the administration had embarked on a strategy that would stabilize the region by improving Israeli-Arab ties. Hamas’s October 7 attacks were aimed at stopping that process, and they did. And while Iran has embarked on a campaign to improve its ties with the rest of the world in recent months, the Israeli assault on Hezbollah will stop that.

Sep 26, 2024 | csis.org | Jon B. Alterman |Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair

Middle Eastern states have grown used to being a focus of U.S. strategy—and some even seem to view it as an entitlement. Intense U.S. diplomacy following the outbreak of the Gaza war a year ago ended, at least temporarily, a drumbeat of local complaints that the United States was leaving the region. Even so, Middle Eastern states face deep uncertainty about the direction of U.S. policy after November’s presidential election.

Sep 24, 2024 | csis.org | Korea Chair |Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair |Power ShellModule Project |Asian security

The audience for the U.S. presidential election is global. As Americans go to the polls, their choices have ramifications for the world. Please join us for the inaugural event of the CSIS Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department to discuss a collection of essays by CSIS scholars assessing the meaning of the election for Europe, Russia, Eurasia, the Indo-Pacific, the Americas, Africa, and the Middle East.