Celebrating its hundredth anniversary, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is one of the world's most highly regarded international affairs think tanks and the oldest of its kind in the United States. Three qualities have defined it over its history: excellence in scholarship; responsiveness to changing global circumstances; and a commitment to making a concrete difference in the world.
Ideas and analysis are valuable, but improving policies, decision-making, and real world outcomes is Carnegie's business. Today Carnegie has research centers in Moscow, Beijing, Beirut, and Brussels in addition to its headquarters in Washington, D.C. As it enters its second century, the Carnegie Endowment is committed to building the first truly global think tank by continuing its global expansion while maintaining the quality and coherence of the organization. To do this, the institution will have to increase its annual fundraising and, build on Andrew Carnegie's original endowment gift.
With inestimable support, the staff and board of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace are embarking on a second century filled with pride, excitement, and determination to build something far greater in the years ahead.
– Jessica T. Mathews
Carnegie is uniquely fortunate to be able to rely on its endowment, the legacy of Andrew Carnegie's original 1910 gift of $10 million, to provide core funding for its programs. That funding, which covers 50 percent of Carnegie's annual budget, ensures that scholars can maintain their independence and have the freedom they need to produce the highest quality work.
Yet Carnegie must rely on and indeed welcomes the generous support of people who value its mission and appreciate the peerless quality and deep impact of its work. As Carnegie enters its second century, it is striving to raise new endowment and program funds as part of a unified campaign to complete its transformation into the world’s only global think tank. To facilitate that transformation, Carnegie has set ambitious targets for growth in its annual budget from $30 million today to over $40 million in 2017 and for diversifying its revenue sources.
The Arab Spring revolutions and the declining role of the security apparatuses in the region have allowed for more successful labor activism, an emergence of a bottom-up approach for activism, and a shift away from traditional structures of organization.
The next years will see most, if not all, of NATO's major military operations draw down as the Alliance finds itself, for the first time in twenty years, without a major operation to run.
Chancellor Angela Merkel is facing the political repercussions of her decision to shut down Germany's remaining 17 nuclear power plants after the nuclear disaster in Japan last year.
In case of unobstructed civil war in Syria, the division between Russian and U.S. policies toward Syria will most probably deepen, and the choices of these two countries will have serious international implications, including stronger Russia-China cooperation to counter U.S. foreign policies.
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