Maritime Issues and Oceans CSIS experts spotlight the maritime security environment in the Indo-Pacific, using regional experience and satellite imagery to provide leading analysis.
An ambitious new White House executive order seeks to revitalize the U.S. maritime industry. This article unpacks the dynamics driving the push to restore U.S. shipbuilding and how these measures are tied to competition with China.
The global maritime supply chains primer from the CSIS Economics Program and Scholl Chair in International Business identifies and assesses current and potential key threats to seaborne trade.
China's 2025 white paper reflects Beijing’s effort to recalibrate its national security strategy to both integrate domestic development priorities and respond to a rapidly evolving strategic landscape.
With nearly $25 billion in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a deep bench of cyber executive leaders, and recently expanded cyber authorities, the Coast Guard is poised to make generational improvements in maritime cybersecurity while bolstering its own cyber workforce.
Deployments and Defense Since China completed the expansion of its own artificial island bases in 2017, it has used those ports to operate continuous coast guard patrols and flotillas of maritime militia across the Spratlys. Vietnam’s new outposts will offer similar logistical advantages, allowing ships to deploy to the islands for longer and keep better watch over far-flung outposts and ...
China’s leaders have mapped out an ambitious plan, the Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI), to establish three “blue economic passages” that will connect Beijing with economic hubs around the world. 1 It is the maritime dimension of President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which could include $1–4 trillion in new roads ...
The United States needs to rapidly recapitalize and increase its fleet of three polar icebreakers to address national security risks in the Arctic. Foreign ship construction can rapidly deliver the needed icebreakers as the U.S. grows its domestic shipbuilding industry.
CSIS held a three-part virtual conference in June 2021 on the maritime challenges facing Southeast Asian states. This white paper discusses urgent human, ecological, food, and climate security issues in the region’s oceans and steps to address these challenges.
The Maritime Security Dialogue series brings together CSIS and the U.S. Naval Institute, two of the nation's most respected non-partisan institutions. The series highlights the unique challenges facing the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard from national level maritime policy to naval concept development and program design.
