Global Flashpoints 2015

Keeping the peace and advancing American interests abroad has rarely been harder. Washington faces a security landscape that is more intricate, fast-changing, and unpredictable than before, and Americans themselves disagree about what their country's global power is for and how it should be used.

This yearly report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) examines the potential crises likely to erupt in 2015. It considers how to respond to each one and what consequences they may leave for the incoming American administration and its partners worldwide.