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Audio Briefs brings you CSIS publications in audio form. Listen to short, spoken-word summaries from CSIS experts about their latest reports, or hear a full audio version of any CSIS commentary.

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From Regime Change to Regime Management: Washington’s Venezuela Strategy

An audio version of “From Regime Change to Regime Management: Washington’s Venezuela Strategy,” a new Commentary by CSIS’s Christopher Hernandez-Roy. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs.

12 min
JAN 6

A Credible Path to Political Stability Is Indispensable for Trump’s Venezuela Oil Aspirations

An audio version of “A Credible Path to Political Stability Is Indispensable for Trump’s Venezuela Oil Aspirations,” a new Commentary by CSIS’s Clayton Seigle. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs.

10 min
JAN 6

Is Venezuela a Critical Minerals Target?

An audio version of “Is Venezuela a Critical Minerals Target?,” a new Critical Questions by CSIS’s Gracelin Baskaran. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs.

17 min
JAN 5

The United States Cannot Go It Alone in Venezuela

An audio version of “The United States Cannot Go It Alone in Venezuela,” a new Commentary by CSIS’s Jon B. Alterman. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs.

9 min
JAN 5

The Maduro Raid: A Military Victory With No Viable Endgame

An audio version of “The Maduro Raid: A Military Victory With No Viable Endgame,” a new Commentary by CSIS’s Mark F. Cancian. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs.

15 min
JAN 4

Maduro Captured: What Comes Next for Venezuela?

An audio version of “⁠Maduro Captured: What Comes Next for Venezuela?,” a new Commentary by CSIS’s Ryan C. Berg. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs.

6 min
12/09/2025

The Drone Supply Chain War: Identifying the Chokepoints to Making a Drone

An audio version of “⁠The Drone Supply Chain War: Identifying the Chokepoints to Making a Drone⁠,” a new Commentary by CSIS’s Macdonald Amoah, Morgan Bazilian, Jahara Matisek, and Katrina Schweiker. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs.

12 min
12/09/2025

What’s at Stake in FERC’s Large Load Proposal?

An audio version of “What’s at Stake in FERC’s Large Load Proposal?,” a new Critical Questions by CSIS’s Aaron Yang, Ray Cai, Joseph Majkut, and Mathias Zacarias. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs.

10 min

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Fire Hose

10/02/2025

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I had initially liked this quite a bit, but it has since turned into the CSIS fire hose that has just blasted exactly 30 new episodes into my feed all at once, and that seems to now be the new pattern. I was already pressed for how to spend my podcast time and it’s easier to just unsubscribe than to sift through all of these to try and guess what matters. Are they thinking about any of this from the end user’s perspective, or are they just dumping a bunch of copy into the 11 Labs software and firing the result out of a podcast cannon in the hope that whoever wants it will eventually find it? It’s very clear from the fire hose of episodes that CSIS needs a podcast for their defense programs to curate and handle a lot of this content.

Audio Briefs brings you CSIS publications in audio form. Listen to short, spoken-word summaries from CSIS experts about their latest reports, or hear a full audio version of any CSIS commentary.