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Foreign policy and strategy think tanks in the United States
- Council on Foreign RelationsThe Council on Foreign Relations has shaped American foreign policy from its earliest days in ways that most citizens never see.
- Kennan InstituteThe Kennan Institute carries a name that belongs to two very different men, separated by nearly a century and connected by blood.
- Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceThe Carnegie Endowment for International Peace was born on Andrew Carnegie's seventy-fifth birthday. On the 25th of November 1910, the Scottish-American…
- Hoover InstitutionIn June 1919, Herbert Hoover sent a $50,000 telegram to Stanford University president Ray Lyman Wilbur. Hoover had not yet become president of the United…
- Center for Strategic and International StudiesThe Center for Strategic and International Studies opened its doors on the 4th of September 1962, just weeks before the Cuban Missile Crisis gripped…
- Brookings InstitutionThe Brookings Institution opened its doors not in a gleaming Washington office but as a modest research outfit called the Institute for Government Research…
- Atlantic CouncilThe Atlantic Council began with a handshake between two former American statesmen. Christian Herter, once Secretary of State, and William L.
- Center for International PolicyThe Center for International Policy was born in 1975 from a moment of national crisis. The Vietnam War had fractured American confidence in its own foreign…
- RAND CorporationThe RAND Corporation was born from a single urgent conversation in September 1945, weeks after the end of World War II. General Henry H.
- Jamestown FoundationThe Jamestown Foundation was born from a single defection. In 1978, Arkady Shevchenko walked away from his post as Under-Secretary-General of the United…
- The Arctic Institute – Center for Circumpolar Security StudiesThe Arctic Institute, a think tank founded in 2011 and based in Washington, D.C., ranked 72nd among United States think tanks in 2021.