Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is the oldest international affairs think tank in the United States. Founded in 1910, it is known for excellence in scholarship, responsiveness to changing global circumstances, and a commitment to concrete improvements in public policy. Carnegie launched a revolutionary plan in 2006 to build the first global think tank. Since then it has transformed an American institution into one well prepared to take on the challenges of a globalized world. At Carnegie's international centers, local experts produce unrivaled work on critical national, regional, and global issues, collaborating closely with colleagues across the world. The result provides capitals and global institutions with a deeper understanding of the circumstances shaping policy choices worldwide as well as a flow of new approaches to policy problems.

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace seeks to advance international peace in a changing wo

Goal One: To bring Carnegie's global network together to pave pathways for conflict mitigation and resolution.

Goal Two: Together with governments and civil society around the globe, Carnegie works to update and strengthen state-society compacts and strategies for international engagement.

Goal Three: To bridge the gap between researchers, industry, and government in critical areas: digital transformation and governance, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and the information environment. 

In addition to the James C. Gaither Junior Fellows and Young Ambassadors program, Carnegie invests in leadership development through tuition reimbursements for staff to take job-related courses to further their career. Carnegie also encourages employees to pursue professional certification related to current job responsibilities. Both the tuition reimbursement and professional development are reimbursed at 75% of the cost. Carnegie has recently launched a mentorship program to pair both research and administrative staff with mentors/mentees to further leadership development.

More than thirty years ago, Carnegie opened the Carnegie Moscow Center to engage the region’s leading thinkers and promote stable relations between the West and the former Soviet Union. But, in 2022, the Russian government forced Carnegie to shut the Moscow center as part of its wartime crackdown on independent institutions and free media. Since then, our Russian colleagues have stayed at the forefront of the public conversation about the war in Ukraine. They also launched a new online publication, Carnegie Politika, which serves as a unique source of nonpartisan, evidence-based analysis. And, soon the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin will open its doors, serving as a worthy successor to the Moscow center and generating much-needed ideas and debates about the immense challenges facing the entire region. Our work elsewhere continues to engage with immediate and long-term challenges on vital global security issues. Carnegie scholars are exploring how recent U.S. restrictions on exporting semiconductors to China will affect strategic tensions between the two countries. Others are analyzing the profound political changes underway in Iran, where widespread protests challenge its government. Still others are raising the alarm and offering solutions to widening cracks in the nuclear nonproliferation regime and fissure to democracy in America. At a time when billions of people around the world are experiencing economic and political turmoil, our scholars in India and the Middle East are engaging deeply with political economy issues, from data protection to relations between the state and private sector. Our new Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program is catalyzing new lines of work on how the world can mitigate the climate crisis and repair key institutions needed for a sustainable future. And finally, in the face of global economic headwinds, we have developed a financial strategy to minimize risks while continuing to support new lines of work.