For the first time in over two decades, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) documented a decrease in global trafficking victims during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Still, global trafficking remains a critical threat, with the pandemic opening up new avenues for exploitation and complicating typical methods of crime detection in many low- and middle-income countries. The 7th edition of the Global Report on Trafficking in Persons highlights a global struggle to detect cases of trafficking, protect victims, and prosecute perpetrators. This leaves victims with the undue responsibility of “rescuing themselves” instead of being proactively identified by law enforcement. With 2023 marking 20 years of the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons and the half-way mark for the 2030 agenda, the international community has the opportunity to refocus its efforts on fighting global trafficking and related impunity.This session will feature opening remarks by Ambassador Cindy Dyer (U.S. Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons) followed by a panel discussion on the UNODC’s 2022 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons featuring Angela Me, Ilias Chatzis, and Desirée Suo Weymont.This event is made possible through general support to CSIS.———————————————A nonpartisan institution, CSIS is the top national security think tank in the world. Visit www.csis.org to find more of our work as we bring bipartisan solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.Want to see more videos and virtual events? Subscribe to this channel and turn on notifications: https://cs.is/2dCfTveFollow CSIS on:• Twitter: www.twitter.com/csis• Facebook: www.facebook.com/CSIS.org• Instagram: www.instagram.com/csis/

We are pleased to invite you to a discussion with David Turk (Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy) and Dr. Fatih Birol (Executive Director, International Energy Agency) on the future of energy markets and climate targets.They will discuss the outlook for the energy sector and climate action, including the impacts from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and newly-introduced clean energy policies like the Inflation Reduction Act.Hosted by Joseph Majkut, director of the CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program. This event is made possible by general funding to CSIS and the CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program. ———————————————A nonpartisan institution, CSIS is the top national security think tank in the world. Visit www.csis.org to find more of our work as we bring bipartisan solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.Want to see more videos and virtual events? Subscribe to this channel and turn on notifications: https://cs.is/2dCfTveFollow CSIS on:• Twitter: www.twitter.com/csis• Facebook: www.facebook.com/CSIS.org• Instagram: www.instagram.com/csis/

Please join us for a special discussion on North Korea in 2023 with Mr. Sydney Seiler, the National Intelligence Officer for North Korea at the National Intelligence Council.Previously, he was the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) Senior Analyst and Senior Defense Intelligence Expert for North Korea, serving as the principal advisor and senior expert on Korean Peninsula security issues to the USFK Commander and the U.S. Defense Intelligence Enterprise. Mr. Seiler also served as the U.S. Special Envoy for Six Party Talks (2014-2015), where he coordinated U.S. diplomacy and policy on the DPRK, and led negotiations with North Korea. Prior to that, Mr. Seiler served as the director for Korea on the National Security Council (2011-2014). A member of the Senior National Intelligence Service, Mr. Seiler has over 40 years of experience focusing on Korean Peninsula affairs in a range of executive management, intelligence, and policy positions within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Analysis, CIA’s Directorate of Operations, CIA’s Open Source Center, and the National Security Agency.The Capital Cable is made possible by the generous support to the Center for Strategic and International Studies.———————————————A nonpartisan institution, CSIS is the top national security think tank in the world. Visit www.csis.org to find more of our work as we bring bipartisan solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.Want to see more videos and virtual events? Subscribe to this channel and turn on notifications: https://cs.is/2dCfTveFollow CSIS on:• Twitter: www.twitter.com/csis• Facebook: www.facebook.com/CSIS.org• Instagram: www.instagram.com/csis/

Tokyo unveiled a sweeping new National Security Strategy in December 2022, which casts China’s rising assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific as Japan’s “greatest strategic challenge.” The strategy also makes clear that Japanese policymakers are increasingly concerned about China’s potential to forcefully secure “reunification” with Taiwan. Amid Tokyo’s efforts to build a more muscular regional defense presence, how are Chinese scholars assessing what role Japan might play in a potential conflict in and around Taiwan?Please join the Interpret: China project, the CSIS Japan Chair, and a panel of leading experts for a discussion of likely trajectories for China-Japan relations, drawing on insights from newly translated Chinese primary source documents. The expert panel will feature Rumi Aoyama, director of Waseda Institute of Contemporary Chinese Studies and professor at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies at Waseda University, and Bonny Lin, senior fellow for Asian security and director of the CSIS China Power project. The event will be co-moderated by CSIS Freeman Chair Jude Blanchette and CSIS Senior Adviser and Japan Chair Christopher Johnstone.This event is made possible by support from the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. ———————————————A nonpartisan institution, CSIS is the top national security think tank in the world. Visit www.csis.org to find more of our work as we bring bipartisan solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.Want to see more videos and virtual events? Subscribe to this channel and turn on notifications: https://cs.is/2dCfTveFollow CSIS on:• Twitter: www.twitter.com/csis• Facebook: www.facebook.com/CSIS.org• Instagram: www.instagram.com/csis/

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), in partnership with the Diversity in National Security Network (DINSN), is pleased to celebrate the honorees of the 2022 U.S. National Security & Foreign Affairs Leadership List. This is CSIS’s second consecutive year partnering with DINSN—a bipartisan coalition committed to diversifying the national security public and private sectors—to spotlight leaders of diverse backgrounds in the fields of foreign affairs and national security.Follow along the private celebration online for opening remarks from CSIS and DINSN, a keynote from MSNBC Host, Symone D. Sanders-Townsend, and the listing of honoree names. Honorees are invited to a private reception afterwards at the CSIS headquarters for an hour of informal networking.This event was made possible through general support to CSIS and in partnership with the Diversity in National Security Network. ———————————————A nonpartisan institution, CSIS is the top national security think tank in the world. Visit www.csis.org to find more of our work as we bring bipartisan solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.Want to see more videos and virtual events? Subscribe to this channel and turn on notifications: https://cs.is/2dCfTveFollow CSIS on:• Twitter: www.twitter.com/csis• Facebook: www.facebook.com/CSIS.org• Instagram: www.instagram.com/csis/

The impact of Russia’s war in Ukraine has been felt in the Arctic. The region’s primary diplomatic venue is paused, and military tensions are increasing. When Sweden and Finland join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), every Arctic country save Russia will be a member of the alliance. While the war has not diminished Russia’s core interests in the region, there are early indications that the conflict and the U.S.-led sanctions and export control regime may be impacting Moscow’s current and future Arctic capabilities, especially with respect to the formidable Northern Fleet. At the same time, Russia’s use of hybrid tactics in the region seems to be increasing in frequency and severity. The CSIS Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program (EREP) is releasing a report entitled The Russian Arctic Threat: Consequences of the Ukraine War that outlines the key security developments in the Arctic since the full-scale Russian invasion of February 2022, as well as their implications for the United States and NATO. This event will launch the report and detail its findings. Please join Max Bergmann, the director of EREP and the Lillan and Robert D. Stuart Jr. Center, as he sits down with report co-authors Colin Wall, Associate Fellow, CSIS EREP, and Njord Wegge, Professor, Norwegian Defence University College/Norwegian Military Academy. This report is made possible by the generous support of the Lillan and Robert D. Stuart Jr. Center in Euro-Atlantic and Northern European Studies. This report is made possible by generous support from the Norwegian Ministry of Defense. ———————————————A nonpartisan institution, CSIS is the top national security think tank in the world. Visit www.csis.org to find more of our work as we bring bipartisan solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.Want to see more videos and virtual events? Subscribe to this channel and turn on notifications: https://cs.is/2dCfTveFollow CSIS on:• Twitter: www.twitter.com/csis• Facebook: www.facebook.com/CSIS.org• Instagram: www.instagram.com/csis/

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has entered a moment of peril. Long heralded a national public health asset, CDC has suffered a sharp decline in popular trust and confidence, a signal of widespread concern over its performance in preventing and responding, at home and abroad, to dangerous outbreaks. The United States needs a strong, effective, and more accountable national public health agency to protect the health of all Americans and ensure the stability of the broader world.The CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security released Building the CDC the Country Needs, a detailed report with actionable recommendations for CDC’s performance in preventing and responding to dangerous outbreaks. The report was developed by a bipartisan working group cochaired by J. Stephen Morrison, Senior Vice President and Director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, and Tom Inglesby, Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.Please join the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security on Tuesday, January 17 from 11:30am to 1:00pm ET at the CSIS offices or online for a lively roundtable discussion on the report’s recommendations featuring the authors of the report—J. Stephen Morrison and Tom Inglesby—and other panelists to be announced.This event is made possible by the generous support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.———————————————A nonpartisan institution, CSIS is the top national security think tank in the world. Visit www.csis.org to find more of our work as we bring bipartisan solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.Want to see more videos and virtual events? Subscribe to this channel and turn on notifications: https://cs.is/2dCfTveFollow CSIS on:• Twitter: www.twitter.com/csis• Facebook: www.facebook.com/CSIS.org• Instagram: www.instagram.com/csis/

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has entered a moment of peril. Long heralded a national public health asset, CDC has suffered a sharp decline in popular trust and confidence, a signal of widespread concern over its performance in preventing and responding, at home and abroad, to dangerous outbreaks. The United States needs a strong, effective, and more accountable national public health agency to protect the health of all Americans and ensure the stability of the broader world.The CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security released Building the CDC the Country Needs, a detailed report with actionable recommendations for CDC’s performance in preventing and responding to dangerous outbreaks. The report was developed by a bipartisan working group cochaired by J. Stephen Morrison, Senior Vice President and Director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, and Tom Inglesby, Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.Please join the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security on Tuesday, January 17 from 11:30am to 1:00pm ET at the CSIS offices or online for a lively roundtable discussion on the report’s recommendations featuring the authors of the report—J. Stephen Morrison and Tom Inglesby—and other panelists to be announced.This event is made possible by the generous support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.———————————————A nonpartisan institution, CSIS is the top national security think tank in the world. Visit www.csis.org to find more of our work as we bring bipartisan solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.Want to see more videos and virtual events? Subscribe to this channel and turn on notifications: https://cs.is/2dCfTveFollow CSIS on:• Twitter: www.twitter.com/csis• Facebook: www.facebook.com/CSIS.org• Instagram: www.instagram.com/csis/

Please join the CSIS Economics Program for an armchair with Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Jose W. Fernandez covering strategic economic competition with China, efforts to make supply chains more secure and resilient, the clean energy transition, and other strategic economic initiatives. Featured GuestJose W. Fernandez, Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment ModeratorsMatthew P. Goodman, Senior Vice President for EconomicsErin L. Murphy, Deputy Director and Senior FellowThis event is made possible through general support to CSIS———————————————A nonpartisan institution, CSIS is the top national security think tank in the world. Visit www.csis.org to find more of our work as we bring bipartisan solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.Want to see more videos and virtual events? Subscribe to this channel and turn on notifications: https://cs.is/2dCfTveFollow CSIS on:• Twitter: www.twitter.com/csis• Facebook: www.facebook.com/CSIS.org• Instagram: www.instagram.com/csis/