James Lewis

James Lewis

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Senior Vice President and Program Director, CSIS

James Lewis is a Senior Vice President and Program Director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).  Before joining CSIS, he worked at the Departments of State and Commerce.  He was the advisor for the 2010, 2013 and 2015 United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Information Security and has led a long-running Track II dialogue on cybersecurity with the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations.

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Columns

China’s Paper Dragon

“This idea may be formulated as follows. The situation is better now than it was ten years ago; therefore ten years from now it will […] More

Briefs & Analysis

Laying Down a Marker

After much hand-wringing, the U.S. publicly admitted that the Russian government is interfering with the Presidential election. This was an open secret for weeks, but […] More

Briefs & Analysis

Space — No Longer a Sanctuary

One sign of how important space is to military operations, particularly U.S. military operations, is that the countries who are our most likely military opponents, […] More

Briefs & Analysis

Public Policy Tradeoff

When the Clinton Administration decontrolled encryption in the late 1990s after a long and acrimonious debate, it did so because it had decided that the […] More

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