In 1998, it was a report from a CSIS retirement commission that became the bipartisan benchmark of the Social Security reform debate.
In 1985, a CSIS panel led to the Goldwater-Nichols legislation to reform the Defense Department and Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1978, CSIS convened the first public hearing on Capitol Hill on the Cambodian genocide, sparking major changes in congressional and executive branch perceptions of the tragedy. In 1966, CSIS research triggered House hearings on the watershed Sino-Soviet split. Since its founding, CSIS has been at the forefront of solutions to the vexing foreign policy and national security problems of the day. With its traditional defense and security programs, initiatives focused on global challenges such as health and energy, and research projects dedicated to every corner of the globe, CSIS is well positioned for another 50 years of providing strategic insights and policy solutions to the world’s decisionmakers.
strategy.Īn independent not-for-profit organization since 1987, CSIS marked its first half-century of existence by moving into a new state-of-the-art headquarters in downtown Washington, DC, in 2013. CSIS is regularly called upon by Congress, the executive branch, the media, and others to explain the day’s events and offer recommendations to improve U.S. The Center’s over 250 full-time staff and large network of affiliated scholars conduct research and analysis and develop policy initiatives that look to the future and anticipate change. Today, CSIS is one of the world’s preeminent public policy institutions on foreign policy and national security issues.
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