Center for Strategic and International Studies

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS, German Centre for International and Strategic Studies ) is an independent think tank in Washington, DC with a focus on the foreign policy of the United States.

History

The center was established in 1962 as a non-partisan institution. Originally part of Georgetown University, it became independent in 1987. The CSIS created policy studies and strategic analyzes of political, economic, and foreign and security policy issues. These global and regional emerging trends and long-term effects in regions such as the Middle East and Russia are also examined how the issues of terrorism, energy, trade, technology or internal security.

Organization

President and CEO of CSIS since April 2000, the former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense John Hamre.

On the Board of Trustees ( Board ) sitting members of the Defense Ministry, investment bankers, representatives of business enterprises, former government officials like Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, James R. Schlesinger, William Cohen and Brent Scowcroft, scientists and representatives of non-profit organizations. Although the majority dominated by Republicans, the Panel is of the former Democratic senator from Georgia and longtime chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on military issues, Sam Nunn, directed.

The CSIS has about 220 employees and a budget of nearly $ 30 million (fiscal year 2010), of which 85 % comes from foundations, private and corporate donations. The rest comes from publication sales and government contracts.

Activity

In addition to the published since 1970 Freeman Report, which focuses on global economics and international security, CSIS financed various departments of Economics, China Studies and other projects at universities in the United States, and is the foreign and security policy journal, The Washington Quarterly out.

"Distinguished Statesmen "

In 2002, the CSIS appointed the former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak for Distinguished Statesman. On 29 September 2011 it was announced that Karl -Theodor zu Guttenberg at CSIS is a rather unspecified, unpaid work would resume as Distinguished Statesman "at the top of a new transatlantic dialogue forum ".

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