Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe is leaving a noteworthy legacy of economic statecraft in the Asia-Pacific region, including his campaign to promote “quality infrastructure” that initially offered regional partners $110 billion of Japanese investment in railways and ports with high standards of transparency and social, environmental, and fiscal sustainability.

SOURCE: "Assessing Abe's Economic Statecraft" by CSIS's Matthew Goodman.

Russia boasts the widest inventory of ballistic and cruise missiles in the world. Significant modernization efforts include new heavy ICBMs with a range of over 10,000 km, and a long-range ground-launched cruise missile that prompted the demise of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. 

SOURCE: "Missiles of Russia" by the CSIS Missile Defense Project.

The United States has cut its presence in Afghanistan to less than 5,000 personnel by November—making it impossible to continue an effective assistance effort if the peace process between the Taliban and the Afghanistan central government continues to fail. 

SOURCE: "Afghanistan: No Real Peace Process and No Progress  Towards Defining a Real Peace" by CSIS's Anthony Cordesman. 

Kenya's annual GNI per capita reached $1,750 in 2019, allowing it to begin transitioning away from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, support and begin fully self-financing vaccine purchases by 2027. 

SOURCE: "Kenya's Immunization System in the Post-Covid World" by CSIS's Global Health Policy Center.