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For four decades, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has been dedicated to providing world leaders with strategic insights on and policy solutions to current and emerging global issues.

The CSIS staff of 190 researchers and support staff focus primarily on three subject areas. First, CSIS addresses the full spectrum of new challenges to national and international security.Second, we maintain resident experts on all of the world's major geographical regions. Third, we are committed to helping to develop new methods of governance for the global age; to this end, CSIS has programs on technology and public policy, international trade and finance, and energy. 

Headquartered in Washington, D.C., CSIS is private, nonpartisan, and tax-exempt.