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. CSIS Logo This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ... Nickname: DC, The District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C., with regard to the surrounding states of Maryland and Virginia. ... A foreign policy is a set of political goals that seeks to outline how a particular country will interact with the other countries of the world. ... This article is about the institution. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... Georgetown University is a private university in the United States, located in Georgetown, a neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It is both the oldest Roman Catholic and oldest Jesuit university in the United States, having been founded on January 23, 1789 by Archbishop John Carroll. ... In a two-party system (such as in the United States), bipartisan refers to any bill, act, resolution, or any other action of a political body in which both of the major political parties are in agreement. ...

Structure

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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. Sam Nunn Samuel Augustus Nunn (born September 8, 1938) is co-chairman and chief executive officer of the NTI (Nuclear Threat Initiative), a charitable organization working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. ... The Democratic Party is one of two major political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. ... Seal of the U.S. Senate The United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the Congress of the United States, the other being the House of Representatives. ... The Committee on Armed Services is a committee of the United States Senate empowered with legislative oversight of the nations military, including the Department of Defense, military research and development, nuclear energy (as pertaining to national security), benefits for members of the military, the Selective Service System and other... Henry Alfred Kissinger (born Heinz Alfred Kissinger on May 27, 1923) is a German-born Jewish American diplomat, Nobel laureate and statesman. ... Zbigniew Brzezinski Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski (born March 28, 1928, Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish-American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman. ... William Cohen William Sebastian Cohen (born August 28, 1940) is a Republican politician from Maine who served as a United States Secretary of Defense under President Clinton. ... Lieutenant General Brent Scowcroft KBE (born March 19, 1925 in Ogden, Utah), USAF (Ret. ...

CSIS has a staff of approximately 220.

Funding

For 2004, CSIS had an operating budget of $22 million, 85 percent of which is funded from corporate, foundation and individual contributions. The remainder comes from endowments, publication sales and government contracts. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ...

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. A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ... This article is becoming very long. ... Homeland security refers to domestic governmental actions designed to prevent, detect, respond to, and recover from acts of terrorism, and also respond to natural disasters. ... A fruit stand at a market. ... In the second half of the 20th century, humans acquired sufficient technology to leave the surface of the Earth and explore space. ...

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

• Michael Ledeen
• Anthony Cordesman

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External links

• Official site
• Listing of Experts