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The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is a Washington, D.C.-based foreign policy think tank. Founded in 1964 originally as part of Georgetown University, CSIS is a fully independent and officially bipartisan institution, that conducts policy studies and strategic analyses on political, economic and security issues. Its Board of Trustees is dominated by past or present Republicans.
Structure
The current president and CEO of CSIS is John Hamre, former Deputy Secretary of Defense. He has held the position since April 2000.
The Chairman of the Board of Trustees is Sam Nunn, a former conservative Democratic Senator from Georgia and longtime chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services. Its board of trustees includes many former senior government officials including Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, William Cohen, and Brent Scowcroft with a particular leaning toward Defense Department officials, Wall Street investment bankers and oil company executives.
CSIS has a staff of approximately 220.
Funding
For 2004, CSIS had an operating budget of dollar|$" target="_blank" >*22 million, 85 percent of which is funded from corporate, foundation and individual contributions. The remainder comes from endowments, publication sales and government contracts.
Goals and description
In order to guide the policymaking community, CSIS focuses on all aspects of foreign and security policy, particularly by examining emerging trends and long-term effects of both global and regional issues. This includes analyzing developments within specific geographic areas, such as in the Middle East or Russia, as well as globally, such as terrorism, homeland security, energy, trade and technology.
CSIS has published the Freeman Report, a foreign policy periodical, focusing on global economics and international security since the 1970s. CSIS also funds several university chairs in economics, chinese studies, and other subjects.
See also
External links
"Center for Strategic and International Studies"