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The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is a Washington, D.C.-based foreign policy think tank. The center was founded in 1964 by Admiral Arleigh Burke and historian David Manker Abshire, originally as part of Georgetown University. CSIS is a fully independent and bipartisan institution, that conducts policy studies and strategic analyses on political, economic and security issues.

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The current president and CEO of CSIS is John Hamre, former Deputy Secretary of Defense. He has held the position since April 2000.

The Chairman of the Board of Trustees is Sam Nunn, a former Democratic Senator from Georgia and longtime chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services. Its board of trustees includes many former senior government officials including Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, William Cohen, and Brent Scowcroft.

CSIS has a staff of approximately 220.

For 2005, CSIS had an operating budget of $27.2 million, 85 percent of which is funded from corporate, foundation and individual contributions. The remainder comes from endowments, publication sales and government contracts.

In order to guide the policymaking community, CSIS focuses on all aspects of foreign and security policy, particularly by examining emerging trends and long-term effects of both global and regional issues. This includes analyzing developments within specific geographic areas, such as in the Middle East or Russia, as well as globally, such as terrorism, homeland security, energy, trade and technology.

CSIS has published the Freeman Report, a foreign policy periodical, focusing on global economics and international security since the 1970s. CSIS also funds several university chairs in economics, Chinese studies, and other subjects.

CSIS was also a sponsoring organization for the Iraq Study Group.

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