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| Abbreviation | CEIP |
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| Formation | December 14, 1910; 114 years ago (1910-12-14) |
| Founder | Andrew Carnegie |
| Type | Foundation |
| Legal status | Nonprofit organization |
| Purpose | To advance peace and international cooperation through analysis and development of new policy ideas[1] |
| Headquarters | 1779Massachusetts Avenue NW,Washington, D.C., United States |
| Location | |
Region | Global |
| Methods | Nonpartisan policy research and analysis, briefing policymakers to disseminate independent analysis and policy ideas, support for unofficial and semi-official diplomacy through backchannel dialogues, training and mentoring fellows, incubating initiatives that become independent organizations, public events, development and distribution of digital content |
| Fields | International relations,peace and conflict studies, government and institutions, technology and international affairs, regional political economy, climate and energy |
President | Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar |
Chair of the Board of Trustees | Jane Hartley |
| Revenue | $51,064,825[2] (2023) |
| Expenses | $45,424,424[2] (2023) |
| Website | carnegieendowment |
TheCarnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) is a nonpartisaninternational affairsthink tank headquartered inWashington, D.C., with operations in Europe, South Asia, East Asia, and the Middle East, as well as the United States.[1] Founded in 1910 byAndrew Carnegie, the organization describes itself as being dedicated to advancing cooperation between countries, reducingglobal conflict, and promoting active international engagement between the United States and countries around the world. It engages leaders from multiple sectors and across the political spectrum.[3]
In theUniversity of Pennsylvania's "2019 Global Go To Think Tanks Report", Carnegie was ranked the number 1 top think tank in the world.[4] In the2015 Global Go To Think Tanks Report, Carnegie was ranked the third most influential think tank in the world, after theBrookings Institution andChatham House.[5] It was ranked as the top Independent Think Tank in 2018.[6]
Its headquarters building, prominently located on theEmbassy Row section ofMassachusetts Avenue, was completed in 1989 on a design by architecture firmSmith, Hinchman & Grylls.
The chairperson of Carnegie's board of trustees isJane D. Hartley,[7] and the organization's president is former California Supreme Court justiceMariano-Florentino Cuéllar, who replaced CIA directorWilliam J. Burns in 2021.[8]
Andrew Carnegie, like other leadinginternationalists of his day, believed that war could be eliminated by stronger international laws and organizations. "I am drawn more to this cause than to any," he wrote in 1907. Carnegie's single largest commitment in this field was his creation of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.[9]
On his seventy-fifth birthday, November 25, 1910, Andrew Carnegie announced the establishment of the Endowment with a gift of $10 million worth of first mortgage bonds, paying a 5% rate of interest.[10] The interest income generated from these bonds was to be used to fund a newthink tank dedicated to advancing the cause of world peace. In his deed of gift, presented in Washington on December 14, 1910, Carnegie charged trustees to use the fund to "hasten the abolition of international war, the foulest blot upon our civilization", and he gave his trustees "the widest discretion as to the measures and policy they shall from time to time adopt" in carrying out the purpose of the fund.[11]
Carnegie chose longtime adviserElihu Root, senator from New York and formerSecretary of War and ofState, to be the Endowment's first president. Awarded theNobel Peace Prize in 1912, Root served until 1925. Founder trustees includedHarvard University presidentCharles William Eliot, philanthropistRobert S. Brookings, former US Ambassador to Great BritainJoseph Hodges Choate, former secretary of stateJohn W. Foster, andCarnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching presidentHenry Smith Pritchett.[9]
At the outset of America's involvement in World War I in 1917, the Carnegie Endowment trustees unanimously declared, "the most effective means of promoting durable international peace is to prosecute the war against the Imperial Government of Germany to final victory for democracy."[12] In December 1918, Carnegie Endowment SecretaryJames Brown Scott and four other Endowment personnel, includingJames T. Shotwell, sailed with PresidentWoodrow Wilson on theUSSGeorge Washington to join thepeace talks in France.
Carnegie is often remembered for having builtCarnegie libraries. They were funded by other Carnegie trusts. However, the Endowment built libraries in Belgium, France,[13] andSerbia in three cities which had been badly damaged in the war. In addition, in 1918, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) began to support library special collections on international issues through its International Mind Alcove program, which aimed to foster a more global perspective among the public in the United States and other countries.[14] The Endowment concluded its support for this program in 1958.[14]
On July 14, 1923, theHague Academy of International Law, an initiative of the Endowment, was formally opened in thePeace Palace atThe Hague. The Peace Palace had been built by theCarnegie Foundation (Netherlands) in 1913 to house the Permanent Court of Arbitration and alibrary of international law.
In 1925,Nicholas Murray Butler succeededElihu Root as president of the Endowment.[15] In December of the same year, the endowment's Board approved a proposal by President Butler to offer aid in modernizing theVatican Library.[16][17] From 1926 to 1939, the Carnegie Endowment expended some $200,000 on the endeavor.[18] For his work, including his involvement with theKellogg–Briand Pact, Butler was awarded theNobel Peace Prize in 1931.[19]
In November 1944, the Carnegie Endowment publishedRaphael Lemkin'sAxis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation – Analysis of Government – Proposals for Redress. The work was the first to bring the wordgenocide into the global lexicon.[20] In April 1945,James T. Shotwell, director of the Carnegie Endowment'sDivision of Economics and History, served as chairman of the semiofficial consultants to the US delegation at the San Francisco conference to draw up theUnited Nations Charter.[21] As chairman, Shotwell pushed for an amendment to establish a permanentUnited Nations Commission on Human Rights, which exists to this day.
In December 1945, Butler stepped down after twenty years as president and chairman of the board of trustees. Butler was the last living member of the original board selected by Andrew Carnegie in 1910.[22]John Foster Dulles was elected to succeed Butler as chairman of the board of trustees, where he served until fellow board memberDwight D. Eisenhower was elected president of the US in 1952 and appointed Dulles Secretary of State.[22]
In 1946,Alger Hiss succeeded Butler as president of the Endowment but resigned in 1949 after being denounced as a spy for the Soviet Union byWhittaker Chambers. Hiss was replaced in the interim byJames T. Shotwell.
In 1947, the Carnegie Endowment's headquarters were moved closer to theUnited Nations in New York City, while the Washington office atPeter Parker House (700Jackson Pl., NW) became a subsidiary branch.[12]
In 1950, the Endowment board of trustees appointedJoseph E. Johnson, a historian and former State Department official, to take the helm.
In 1963, the Carnegie Endowment reconstituted its International Law Program in order to address several emerging international issues: the increase in significance and impact of international organizations; the technological revolution that facilitated the production of new military weaponry; the spread of Communism; the surge in newly independent states; and the challenges of new forms of economic activity, including global corporations and intergovernmental associations. The program resulted in the New York-based Study Group on the United Nations and the International Organization Study Group at the European Centre inGeneva.[12]In 1970,Thomas L. Hughes became the sixth president of the Carnegie Endowment. Hughes moved the Endowment's headquarters from New York to Washington, D.C., and closed the Endowment's European Centre in Geneva.
The Carnegie Endowment acquired full ownership ofForeign Policy magazine in the spring of 1978. The Endowment publishedForeign Policy for 30 years, moving it from a quarterly academic journal to a bi-monthly glossy covering the nexus ofglobalization and international policy. The magazine was sold toThe Washington Post in 2008.
In 1981, Carnegie Endowment AssociateFred Bergsten co-founded the Institute for International Economics—today known as thePeterson Institute for International Economics.
Citing the growing danger of anuclear arms race betweenIndia andPakistan,Thomas L. Hughes formed an eighteen-member Task Force on Non-Proliferation and South Asian Security to propose methods for reducing the growing nuclear tensions on the subcontinent.[12]In 1989, two former Carnegie associates, Barry Blechman and Michael Krepon, founded theHenry L. Stimson Center.
In 1991,Morton Abramowitz was named the seventh president of the Endowment. Abramowitz, previously a State Department official, focused the Endowment's attention on Russia in the post-Soviet era.[12] In this spirit, the Carnegie Endowment opened theCarnegie Moscow Center in 1994 as a home of Russian scholar-commentators.[23]
Jessica Mathews joined the Carnegie Endowment as its eighth president in May 1997. Under her leadership, Carnegie's goal was to become the first multinational/global think tank.[24]
In 2000, Mathews announced the creation of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) headed byDemetrios Papademetriou which became the first stand-alone think tank concerned with international migration.[12]
As first laid out with theGlobal Vision in 2007, the Carnegie Endowment aspired to be the first global think tank.[22] During Mathews' tenure as president, the Carnegie Endowment launched the Carnegie Middle East Center inBeirut (2006), Carnegie Europe inBrussels (2007), and the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center at theTsinghua University inBeijing (2010). Additionally, in partnership with theal-Farabi Kazakh National University, Carnegie established the Al-Farabi Carnegie Program on Central Asia inKazakhstan in late 2011.
In April 2016, the sixth international Center, Carnegie India, opened inNew Delhi.[25]
In February 2015,Mathews stepped down as president after 18 years.[26]William J. Burns, former US Deputy Secretary of State, became Carnegie's ninth president.[27] After Burns' nomination[28] and confirmation asDirector of the Central Intelligence Agency,[29] then-California Supreme Court Justice and Stanford professorMariano-Florentino Cuéllar became President of the Carnegie Endowment on November 1, 2021.[30][31]
In April 2022, the Carnegie Endowment was compelled to close its Moscow center at the direction of the Russian government.[32][33]
In April 2023Russia'sMinistry of Justice added the Centre to the so-called list of "foreign agents",[34] and in July 2024 it designated the organization as "undesirable".[35]
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The Carnegie Endowment office inWashington, D.C., is home to ten programs: Africa; American Statecraft; Asia; Democracy, Conflict, and Governance; Europe; Global Order and Institutions; Middle East; Nuclear Policy; Russia and Eurasia; South Asia; Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics; and Technology and International Affairs.[37]
In 1993, the Endowment launched theCarnegie Moscow Center, with the belief that "in today's world a think tank whose mission is to contribute to global security, stability, and prosperity requires a permanent presence and a multinational outlook at the core of its operations."[38]
The center's stated goals were to embody and promote the concepts of disinterested social science research and the dissemination of its results in post-Soviet Russia and Eurasia; to provide a free and open forum for the discussion and debate of critical national, regional and global issues; and to further cooperation and strengthen relations between Russia and the United States by explaining the interests, objectives and policies of each.[23] From 2006 until December 2008, the center was led by former Deputy Secretary General ofNATO,Rose Gottemoeller. The center was headed byDmitri Trenin until the Russian government ordered its closure in April 2022, shortly after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022.[32][33]
TheCarnegie Middle East Center was established in Beirut, Lebanon, in November 2006. The center aims to better inform the process of political change in the Arab Middle East and deepen understanding of the complex economic and security issues that affect it. In October 2020, it was renamed the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center in honor of scholarMalcolm H. Kerr.[39] As of 2024[update], the current director of the center is Maha Yahya.[40]
Founded in 2007 byFabrice Pothier, Carnegie Europe is the European centre of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From its newly expanded presence in Brussels, Carnegie Europe combines the work of its research platform with the fresh perspectives of Carnegie's centres in Washington, Moscow, Beijing, and Beirut, bringing a unique global vision to the European policy community. Through publications, articles, seminars, and private consultations, Carnegie Europe aims to foster new thinking on the daunting international challenges shaping Europe's role in the world.[41]
Carnegie Europe is currently directed by Rosa Balfour.[42]
The Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy was established atTsinghua University inBeijing in 2010. The center's focuses includeChina's foreign relations;international economics and trade;climate change and energy; nonproliferation and arms control; and other global and regional security issues such asNorth Korea,Afghanistan,Pakistan, andIran.[43]
The current director of the center isPaul Haenle.
In April 2016, Carnegie India opened inNew Delhi,India. The center's focuses include the political economy of reform in India, foreign and security policy, and the role of innovation and technology in India's internal transformation and international relations.[25]The current director of the center is Rudra Chaudhuri.
In April 2023, the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center opened inBerlin,Germany. The center focuses on major policy challenges across the wider region in the wake of theRussian invasion of Ukraine.[44] It is home to the digital publication Carnegie Politika.
The current director of the center isAlexander Gabuev [ru].
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