The last decades have seen rapid internationalization in all kinds of fields—from small business to terrorism to religion, entertainment and social activism. Oddly, think tanks—even those whose interests are international—remained largely national enterprises, rooted in the views of one country. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace was the first to break the pattern.
In 1994, the Endowment launched the Carnegie Moscow Center, pioneering the idea that in today’s world a think tank whose mission is to contribute to global security, stability, and prosperity requires a permanent international presence and a multinational outlook at the core of its operations.
Building on the strength of this success and following its century-long practice of changing as global circumstances change, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace undertook a fundamental redefinition of its role and mission.
As it celebrates its Centennial, the Carnegie Endowment is pioneering the first global think tank, with flourishing offices now in Washington, Moscow, Beijing, Beirut, and Brussels. These five locations include the centers of world governance and the places whose political evolution and international policies will most determine the near-term possibilities for international peace and economic advance.
With nearly 90 employees, Carnegie’s Washington, D.C., headquarters serves as the hub through which Carnegie’s other centers collaborate on issues of shared interest, from nonproliferation to political transition to economic development.
Established in 1994, the Carnegie Moscow Center was the first public policy research institution of its size and kind in the region. With a staff of over 30 Russians and one American, the Carnegie Moscow Center brings together senior researchers from across the Russian political spectrum and Carnegie's global centers to provide a free and open forum for the discussion and debate of critical national, regional, and global issues.
The Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy is a joint U.S.–China research center based at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Carnegie first established its presence in Beijing in 2004, and in 2010, announced its partnership with Tsinghua University. The Center brings together senior scholars and experts from the United States and China for collaborative research on common global challenges that face the United States and China.
Since its establishment in 2006, the Carnegie Middle East Center has become a prominent think tank in the Middle East, and a recognized source of informed policy research and analysis on issues relevant to the region. The Center has published many papers on political and economic matters; organized dozens of meetings and workshops across the Middle East; and Beirut-based scholars have appeared in hundreds of interviews as analysts and commentators.
Founded in 2007, Carnegie Europe combines the work of its research platform with the fresh perspectives of Carnegie’s centers, bringing a unique global vision to the European policy community. From its recently expanded presence in Brussels, Carnegie Europe aims to foster new thinking on the daunting international challenges shaping Europe’s role in the world.
Carnegie launched its New Vision with a series of events on February 5-6, 2007, a new logo, and redesigned publications and website.
While the departure of President Ben Ali does not necessarily signal a democratic transition, the international community can play a role in creating space for a genuine democracy to take root in Tunisia.
Thomas Carothers
In spite of China’s high growth rates, the country still faces a number of economic challenges, from trade tensions with the West to reducing income inequality domestically.
Yukon Huang,
Paul Haenle
Achieving a genuinely collaborative approach to missile defense would address a common threat to the Euro-Atlantic region and help remove the misgivings that are blocking progress toward a common security space.
Sam Nunn and
Igor Ivanov and
Wolfgang Ischinger
Moscow's more active policy stance on North Korea serves Russia's strategic, political, and economic interests and could potentially have a positive impact on the situation on the Korean Peninsula.
Dmitri Trenin
