Center for the National Interest

The Nixon Center was a Washington, D.C.-based public policy think tank. On March 9, 2011 it was renamed The Center for the National Interest.^[1]

The Center was established by former U.S. President Richard Nixon on January 20, 1994 as the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom.^[2] The group changed its name to the Nixon Center in 1998. The center has a staff of approximately a dozen people supporting six main programs: Energy Security and Climate Change Program, Strategic Studies, US-Russia Relations, Immigration and National Security Studies, China Studies, and Regional Strategies (Middle East, Caspian Basin and South Asia).^[3] In 2006 it had an annual budget of $1.6 million.^[4] The Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program of the Foreign Policy Research Institute ranked it as one of the top 30 think tanks in the United States in 2007.^[5]

In 2001, the Nixon Center acquired the journal The National Interest.

Notes

1. ^ "Center for the National Interest". http://www.cftni.org/index-2.html. 
2. ^ The Nixon Center: Mission statement
3. ^ Abelson 2006, p. 89; The Nixon Center 2008, Nixon Center programs. Accessed 9-29-2008.
4. ^ Abelson 2006, p. 238 (Appendix One, Table AI.2).
5. ^ McGann 2007, p. 18.

References

• Abelson, Donald E. (2006). A Capitol Idea: Think Tanks and US Foreign Policy. Montreal & Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 0773531157
• McGann, James G. (2007). The Global "Go-To Think Tanks": The Leading Public Policy Research Organizations in the World, 2007. (PDF). Accessed 9-29-2008.

External links

• Official website