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Carnegie Moscow Center

Established	1994
Type	Think Tank
Headquarters	16/2 Tverskaya St., Moscow
Director	Dmitri Trenin
Website	carnegie.ru

The Carnegie Moscow Center is a think tank and research center that focuses on international and domestic affairs in Russia and Eurasia.

It was established in 1994 as a regional affiliate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC. The center is part of the network of Carnegie regional centers, including the Carnegie Europe in Brussels, Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, and the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy in Beijing.

In 2013, the University of Pennsylvania’s "Global Go-To Think Tank Index Report" listed The Carnegie Moscow Center as the second most influential think thank in Central and Eastern Europe and the 28th most influential think tank in the world.

History

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace launched the Carnegie Moscow Center concept in 1993. The premise of its founding was that, "in today's world a think tank whose mission is to contribute to global security, stability, and prosperity requires a permanent presence and a multinational outlook at the core of its operations." It began its Moscow operations in 1994, the first major think tank in Russia following the break-up of the Soviet Union, and it continues to remain influential in the country.

From 2006 until December 2008, the Center was led by current United States Assistant Secretary of State for Verification, Compliance, and Implementation Rose Gottemoeller. The Center is currently headed by Dmitri Trenin, its first Russian director.

Mission

Specialists at the Carnegie Moscow Center produce expert research and nonpartisan analysis independent of government or commercial interests. Committed to the principles of international scholarship and objectivity, the center pursues a three-fold mission:

• To embody and promote the concepts of disinterested social science research and the dissemination of its results in post-Soviet Russia and Eurasia;
• To provide a free and open forum for the discussion and debate of critical national, regional and global issues;
• To further cooperation and strengthen relations between Russia and the United States by explaining the interests, objectives and policies of each.

Carnegie Moscow Center's five resident scholars are well recognized in their fields and frequently cited by the world's leading media outlets. They include:

• Dmitri Trenin: foreign and security policy
• Alexei Arbatov: nuclear nonproliferation
• Alexey Malashenko: religion, society, and security
• Lilia Shevtsova: Russian domestic politics and political institutions
• Petr Topychkanov: nuclear nonproliferation

Activities

The center organizes roundtables, presentations, seminars and conferences on key issues in domestic and foreign policy, international relations, international security and the economy. These events draw participants from across the Russian political spectrum and from Moscow’s media and diplomatic communities. The center has become a recognized leader in nonpartisan political analysis, its staff of Russian and international experts enhanced by the support of the Carnegie Endowment’s Russia and Eurasia Program in Washington

The Carnegie Moscow Center publishes articles, monographs, reference works, periodicals and brochures—up to 30 titles per year in all. The center also publishes the quarterly Pro et Contra, a series of working papers and regular briefings. Center publications appear in both Russian and English, and are widely distributed in Russia and abroad.

In 2013, the Center established the Eurasia Outlook blog on its website, which provides daily analysis from the Center's scholars, policy makers, academics, and other contributors with insights into the region and its issues.

External links

• Carnegie Moscow Center
• Eurasia Outlook Blog
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• 2013 Global Go To Think Tank Index