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Activists Bill Goodfellow and retired foreign service official Donald Ranard established the Center for International Policy in 1975. They operated under the fiscal sponsorship of the Fund for Peace during these initial years.
During its first years, the group focused heavily on Asia with work examining United States foreign policy towards South Korea specifically. They investigated relationships with the Park Chung Hee-led government at that time.
The Center later established an Indochina Program in 1978 which remained active until it closed eleven years later in 1989. This program advocated normalizing diplomatic relations with Vietnam Laos and Cambodia throughout its existence.
The organization campaigned in support of the Contadora Group during the 1980s while backing the subsequent Esquipulas Peace Agreement throughout that decade. After South Africa received a loan from the International Monetary Fund in 1983 the center began a new effort pushing for provisions prohibiting the US representative to the IMF from supporting loans to apartheid states.
Christina Arabia currently leads the Security Assistance Monitor division which tracks U.S. security and defense assistance programs worldwide under her direction. Their database compiles all publicly available data from 2000 to the present for users searching by country region program and assistance type.