Maritime Issues and Oceans: Research & Analysis | CSIS
Oct 23, 2025 · 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.
Unpacking the White House’s Executive Order on Restoring the U.S ...
Apr 10, 2025 · 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 …
What the Bella-1 Teaches Us About Targeting Shadow Fleets
2 days ago · After a globe-spanning chase, the United States seized a sanctioned oil tanker tied to Iran and Venezuela. What does the Bella-1 reveal about shadow fleets, AIS manipulation, and how …
What China’s 2025 White Paper Says About Its Maritime Strategy
Aug 19, 2025 · 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 …
The State of Maritime Supply-Chain Threats - CSIS
Nov 4, 2024 · 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 …
How Taiwan Reimagines Maritime Security: Insights from the 2025 ...
Chapter Three, “Maritime Security and Safety,” in the 2020 edition primarily focused on the Taiwan Coast Guard Administration’s law enforcement activities concerning smuggling, illegal fishing, and …
Protecting Subsea Cables: Detect to Deter, Sue to Secure
Dec 12, 2025 · Subsea cables power global commerce. Though rare, cable attacks impose real costs. But leading technologies are democratizing maritime data and deterring would-be saboteurs. To …
What the New National Security Strategy Means for Naval Forces
Dec 18, 2025 · The 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) has undercurrents of a classical maritime document that connects strategy to economic power. Echoes of the turn of the nineteenth century …
The U.S. Coast Guard and the Future of Maritime Cybersecurity
Oct 23, 2025 · 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 …
China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative: Economic Drivers and ... - CSIS
Apr 2, 2018 · 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 …