Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
In a complex, changing, and increasingly contested world, the Carnegie Endowment generates strategic ideas and independent analysis, supports diplomacy, and trains the next generation of international scholar-practitioners to help countries and institutions take on the most difficult global problems and advance peace.
Our network of more than 150 thinkers and doers from diverse disciplines and perspectives is spread across more than twenty countries around the globe.
Our global network of scholars provides decisionmakers with actionable recommendations for addressing the world’s biggest challenges. Find some of the latest policy ideas below.
Thomas Carothers and Benjamin Feldman examine the United States’ relationships with over sixty authoritarian regimes, finding that security interests are their primary drivers. In the years to come, they argue, geopolitical tensions and certain economic imperatives will heighten incentives for friendlier ties with some authoritarian countries.
Read the full set of recommendations in “Examining U.S. Relations with Authoritarian Countries.”
John Pendleton, Ariel (Eli) Levite, and Bob Kolasky demonstrate that the world’s growing dependence on a few cloud service providers changes the nature of technology risk. They offer recommendations to help providers and policymakers improve resilience and trust in the cloud.
Nur Arafeh and Hamza Meddeb describe how food, energy, and debt crises in the Middle East and North Africa amplify one another, raising profound governance challenges for Egypt, Tunisia, and Lebanon. They explore how these governments can implement structural reforms in each area while navigating their domestic political constraints, including the outsized influence of powerful interest groups.
