Stimson Center
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| Abbreviation | Stimson |
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| Motto | Innovative Ideas Changing the World |
| Formation | 1989 |
| Type | Think Tank |
| Headquarters | 1211 Connecticut Avenue NW, 8th Floor |
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President
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Brian Finlay |
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Budget
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Revenue: $5,700,677 Expenses: $6,128,410 (FYE 2014) |
| Website | stimson.org |
The Stimson Center is a nonprofit, nonpartisan institution devoted to enhancing international peace and security through a combination of analysis and outreach. The Center's stated approach is pragmatic ― seeking to provide policy alternatives, solve problems, and overcome obstacles towards a more peaceful and secure world.
Stimson seeks to offer decision-makers pragmatic solutions and policy-relevant information and analysis. The Center focuses on challenges such as water management, wildlife poaching, and responses to humanitarian crises, while still playing a role in debates on nuclear proliferation, arms trafficking, and defense policy.
Stimson seeks to provide expertise for the policymaking community – the U.S. executive and legislative branches, international institutions and governments, and policy research institutions – as well as the media, academia and general public.
Barry Blechman and Michael Krepon founded the Stimson Center in 1989, and are now distinguished fellows at the Center. Stimson is currently led by Chairman of the Board David J. Lane and President and CEO Brian Finlay.
The Stimson Center is funded by research contracts, grants from foundations and other donations and received the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions in 2013.
Stimson's Budgeting for Foreign Affairs and Defense (BFAD) program seeks to improve American national security at a lower cost to the American people. It also works to strengthen the capacity and capability of the US government to frame, resource, and execute foreign and national security policies and programs.
The East Asia program conducts research on vital regional security issues and offers insights and recommendations for policymakers in the U.S. and in the region on a variety of issues. The program analyzes the dynamics of cross-Strait relations, including the exchange of ideas and people between the U.S. and Asia-Pacific region. The program also examines China’s foreign relations toward Northeast and Southeast Asia, with a special focus on Myanmar, Iran and Africa, and addresses U.S.-Japan alliance relations and developments on the Korean Peninsula.
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