Join Margaret Coker, the former New York Times Bureau Chief, as she discusses her new book The Spymaster of Baghdad, which tells the dramatic yet intimate account of how a covert Iraqi intelligence unit called "the Falcons" came together against all odds to defeat ISIS.

The discussion with leading experts will examine how the United States is uniquely positioned to advance a global data governance framework involving likeminded partners across Japan, the United States, and the EU and how this goal could be operationalized. Read more…

The New York Times award-winning cybersecurity journalist—Nicole Perlroth, joins CSPC to lift the curtain on a market in shadow, revealing the urgent threat faced by us all if we cannot bring the global cyber arms race to heel.

In After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency, Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith provide a comprehensive roadmap for reform of the presidency in the post-Trump era. Jack Goldsmith joins CSPC to discuss potential presidential reforms.

Reading the news on social media, figuring out the next step in your career, or trying to discover if gossip about a friend is legitimate, you are building an image of the world and making decisions about it. Professor Sir David Omand, author of How Spies Think , joins CSPC to arms us with the tools to sort fact from fiction, and shows us how to use real intelligence every day.

Tevi Troy, best-selling presidential historian, and former member of the George W. Bush Administration joins CSPC to talk about his book Fight House,” named one of the top political books of 2020 by the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Troy will discuss how White House infighting shapes policy or lack thereof, as well as explore the lessons learned from different administrations' and recommendations for the Biden Administration.

Tomorrow, the President-elect Joe Biden will have only seventeen days to fulfill his campaign pledge when to extend the New START Treaty before it expires, and use it as a foundation to pursue new arms control agreements. Recent jockeying between U.S. and Russian negotiators on even a short, one-year extension of New START, however, highlighted just how complex and difficult arms control negotiations have become in an era of renewed major power competition,