Our Centers, Projects and Initiatives
John L. Thornton China Center
The John L. Thornton China Center develops timely, independent analyses and policy recommendations to help U.S. and Chinese leaders address key long-term challenges. The Center focuses on an array of issues, including U.S.-China relations and China’s internal development. With China emerging as a major economic power and playing a growing role in the global community, the Center produces important research and events focusing on China’s economy and domestic and international policy decisions.
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Saban Center for Middle East Policy
The Saban Center for Middle East Policy conducts original research and develops innovative programs to promote a better understanding of policy choices in the Mideast region. The Saban Center’s projects and initiatives focus on foreign policy issues facing the United States and international decision makers in Israel, the Gulf region, and the Arab and Islamic worlds. Saban Center initiatives include the Middle East Democracy and Development Project.
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U.S. Relations with the Islamic World
The Saban Center’s Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World conducts policy research and hosts events that focus on the major issues confronting the United States and Muslim-majority states. Together with the Brookings Doha Center in Qatar, the Project convenes public forums, carries out research, and issues publications designed to educate, foster frank dialogue, and build positive partnerships among U.S. and Islamic communities. Each year, the Project holds the U.S.-Islamic World Forum, a major international conference that brings together leaders from the fields of politics, business, civil society, the media, and academia for discussion and debate. The Project also sponsors two initiatives that explore the use of the arts and the sciences to further understanding and promote partnerships between the United States and the Muslim world.
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Center on the United States and Europe
The Center on the United States and Europe (CUSE) fosters high-level U.S.-European dialogue on the changes in Europe and the global challenges that affect transatlantic relations. The Center offers independent research and recommendations for U.S. and European officials and policymakers, and it convenes seminars and public forums on policy-relevant issues. CUSE’s research program focuses on three key areas: the transformation of the European Union; strategies for engaging the countries and regions beyond the frontiers of the EU including the Balkans, Caucasus, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine; and European security issues such as the future of NATO, forging common strategies on energy security and transatlantic counter-terrorism coordination. The Center also houses Brookings' specific programs on France, Italy, and Turkey, as well as the Brookings Arms Control Initiative, which analyzes the critical challenges of arms control and nonproliferation. For more information on the activities of CUSE, click here.
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Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies
Established in 1998, the Brookings Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies (CNAPS) conducts research, analysis, and outreach designed to enhance policy development and understanding on the pressing political, economic, and security issues facing the Northeast Asia region of the world. CNAPS sponsors up to six Visiting Fellows from the region each year who spend up to ten months at Brookings conducting research, interacting with U.S. policymakers, and actively participating in a rich program of seminars, roundtables, and discussions organized by the Center.
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Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence
The Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence (21CSI) was created to address the key issues that will shape security policy over the coming decades. The Center seeks to answer the critical questions emerging in defense, cybersecurity, arms control, and intelligence in an all-encompassing manner, seeking not just to explore important new policy challenges but also how they cross traditional fields and domains.
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Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement
The Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement promotes more effective national, regional and international responses to the global problem of people displaced by natural disasters and armed conflict. The Project supports the efforts of the UN Special Rapporteur of the Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, and hosts seminars and symposia on various issues related to internal displacement.
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Latin America Initiative
In 2008, Foreign Policy at Brookings, in conjunction with Brookings Global Economy and Development, launched a new effort to stimulate and shape U.S. re-engagement in Latin America. The Latin America Initiative works to re-establish the U.S. as an influential force in the region, with the goal of advancing social, economic, and trade agendas that promote common political and security interests in the hemisphere. The Initiative’s research focuses on five core areas: emerging powers of Brazil and Mexico; U.S. policy toward Cuba in transition; shaping the U.S. immigration debate; black networks; and political and economic implications of unmet expectations. The Initiative hosts the Partnership for the Americas Commission charged with providing concrete policy ideas for addressing these and related challenges of mutual concern within the hemisphere.
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Arms Control Initiative
Few problems pose greater challenges to U.S. national security than controlling, reducing and countering the proliferation of nuclear arms. The Brookings Arms Control Initiative brings the Institution’s multidisciplinary strengths to bear on the critical challenges of arms control and non-proliferation.
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Managing Global Order
Built for a different age, different threats, and a different balance of world power, current multi-lateral institutions do not fully meet today’s global security challenges. Managing Global Order (MGO) seeks to address a broad range of issues from climate change and nuclear proliferation to civil strife and terrorism. The goal of MGO is to develop recommendations for U.S officials, the United Nations, and key international partners aimed at generating a new multilateral and multi-national security system.
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Energy Security Initiative
Foreign Policy at Brookings oversees a Brookings-wide effort entitled the Energy Security Initiative. This project produces insights into the critical role of energy security within U.S. public and private sector decision making. Energy Security Initiative research and analysis have contributed to Congressional testimony and to discussions within Executive Branch offices and agencies, the media, and all levels of public and private sector entities within Washington, D.C. and beyond.
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The India Project
The India Project at Brookings leverages the Institution’s multidisciplinary expertise to examine critical policy challenges and opportunities related to India, as well as U.S.-India relations. The Project is one of two components of the Brookings India Initiative. The other component is Brookings India in New Delhi, India. The Initiative has the twin goals of providing policymaking communities in the U.S. and India with independent policy research and raising the profile and understanding of Indian policy issues in Washington.
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Brookings Intelligence Project
The Brookings Intelligence Project will examine the nexus between policymaking and intelligence, a perspective that makes it unique among other major intelligence research programs. Located within the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, the Project will focus on five core topics: the role of intelligence in policymaking; setting intelligence priorities; covert action; intelligence liaison relationships; and the role of intelligence in counter terrorism.
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Brookings Goes Global
In 2006 and 2007, Foreign Policy at Brookings expanded its reach and impact by opening two new international centers in Beijing, China and Doha, Qatar. The Brookings-Tsinghua Center and the Brookings Doha Center bring the same high level of research, policy analysis, and programs to two important regions of the world.
Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy
In October 2006, the Foreign Policy program’s John L. Thornton China Center and China’s Tsinghua University founded a joint center for policy analysis and research. The Brookings-Tsinghua Center (BTC) resides at the University’s School of Public Policy and Management in Beijing. Operationally, the Brookings- Tsinghua Center provides on-the-ground research support for scholars working in the region. The BTC also provides cutting-edge research, analysis, and dialogue that focus on the opportunities and implications of China’s rapid economic and societal growth.
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Brookings Doha Center
Opening in October 2007, the Brookings Doha Center (BDC) is an initiative of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. and is sponsored by the Government of Qatar. The BDC undertakes independent, policy-oriented research on the socioeconomic and geopolitical issues and transitions facing Muslim majority states and communities today, including issues focusing on U.S.-Muslim world relations.
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