The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) is a nonpartisan international affairs think tank headquartered in Washington D.C.,with operations in Europe,South and East Asia,and the Middle East as well as the United States. Founded in 1910 by Andrew Carnegie,the organization describes itself as being dedicated to advancing cooperation between countries,reducing global conflict,and promoting active international engagement between the United States and countries around the world. It engages leaders from multiple sectors and across the political spectrum.
The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a graduate school of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington,D.C. with campuses in Bologna,Italy and Nanjing,China. It has consistently been ranked one of the top graduate schools for international relations in the world. Foreign Policy has rated it among the top three programs globally since 2005,earning third,second,and first place across different years' editions.
Zamira Sydykova served as Kyrgyz ambassador to the United States and Canada from 2005 to 2010,after a career as an opposition journalist,including imprisonment by the government of then-president Askar Akayev. After the Kyrgyz Revolution of 2010,Ambassador Sydykova served as a trade advisor,scholar at the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,associate with Carnegie Endowment,as well as resumed her editorship of Res Publica. Ambassador Sydykova has received awards from the International Women's Media Foundation,Human Rights Watch,and Amnesty International.
Chilamkuri Raja Mohan is an Indian academic,journalist and foreign policy analyst. He is the Director of the Institute of South Asian Studies,National University of Singapore. Previously,he was the founding Director of Carnegie India. He has also been a Distinguished Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation,New Delhi and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research,New Delhi,and prior to that,a professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies,Nanyang Technological University,Singapore and Professor of Centre for South,Central,Southeast Asian and Southwest Pacific Studies,School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University,New Delhi,India. He was the Henry Alfred Kissinger Scholar in the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress,Washington,D.C. during 2009-10.
The American University of Central Asia (AUCA),formerly the Kyrgyz-American School and the American University in Kyrgyzstan,is a liberal arts university located in Bishkek,the capital of the republic of Kyrgyzstan.
Per Anders Åslund is a Swedish economist and former Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. He is also a chairman of the International Advisory Council at the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE).
Martha Brill Olcott is an American expert on Central Asia and the Caspian. She was a senior associate with the Russian and Eurasian Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,co-directing the Carnegie Moscow Center's Project on Ethnicity and Politics in the former Soviet Union. She taught political science at Colgate University from 1975 until 1998. She joined the Carnegie Foundation in 1995. She previously served as a special consultant to Acting United States Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger and as director of the Central Asian American Enterprise Fund.
Thomas Patrick Lowndes de Waal is a British journalist and writer on the Caucasus. He is a senior fellow at Carnegie Europe. He is best known for his 2003 book Black Garden:Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War.
James Franklin Collins is a former United States Ambassador to Russia. A career Foreign Service Officer in the State Department,he is a Russian specialist.
The Carnegie Moscow Center was a Moscow-based think tank that focuses on domestic and foreign policy. It was established in 1994 as a regional affiliate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. It was the number one think tank in Central and Eastern Europe and the 26th top think tank in the world,according to the University of Pennsylvania’s 2014 Global Go To Think Tank Index. In April 2022,the Carnegie Moscow Center was forced to close at the direction of the Russian government.
Lilia Fyodorovna Shevtsova is a Kremlinology expert.
Pavel Kimovich Baev is a Russian-Norwegian political scientist and security scholar. He is currently a research professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and a senior nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Vitali Silitski was a Belarusian political scientist,analyst,the first director of the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies. He got his PhD in political science from the Rutgers University. Silitski is the author of the concepts of preventive authoritarianism and authoritarian international. He was also a civil activist and blogger.
Igor Alexandrovich Zevelev is a Russian political scientist who has been a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center since 2020.
Dmitri Vitalyevich Trenin is a member of Russia’s Foreign and Defence Policy Council. He was the director of the Carnegie Moscow Center,a Russian think tank. A former colonel of Russian military intelligence,Trenin served for 21 years in the Soviet Army and Russian Ground Forces,before joining Carnegie in 1994.
Dr. Alexei Georgievich Arbatov,PhD is a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences,the Head of the Center for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO),and a scholar in residence at the Carnegie Moscow Center. He is a Russian political scientist,academic,author,and former politician.
Eurasianet is an independent news organisation based at Columbia University's Harriman Institute,the United States,that provides news,information and analysis on countries in Central Asia,the Caucasus region,Russia and Southwest Asia. Launched in 2000,it operated under the auspices of the Eurasia Project of the Open Society Foundations (OSF). Eurasianet spun off in 2016 to become an independent,tax-exempt non-profit news organization. The organisation receives support from Google,OSF,the Foreign,Commonwealth and Development Office,the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies,the National Endowment for Democracy and other grant-making institutions.
Marlène Laruelle is a French historian,sociologist,and political scientist specializing on Eurasia and Europe. She is Research Professor and Director of the Institute for European,Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at the George Washington University (GW). Laruelle is also a Co-Director of PONARS,Director of GW’s Central Asia Program,and Director of GW's Illiberalism Studies Program. She received her Ph.D. in history at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Cultures (INALCO) and spent time as a post-doc in the area of political science at Sciences Po in Paris. She is Senior Associate Scholar at the Institut français des relations internationales (IFRI). Her particular focus of interest is post-Soviet political,social and cultural developments,especially ideologies and nationalism. She is the daughter of the French philosopher François Laruelle.
Cholpon Orozobekova is a prominent Kyrgyz journalist,mediapreneur,human rights activist and an analyst on Central Asian issues currently based in Geneva.
The Valdai Discussion Club is a Moscow-based think tank and discussion forum. It was established in 2004 and is named after Lake Valdai,which is located close to Veliky Novgorod,where the Club’s first meeting took place. In 2014,the management of the Club was transferred to the Valdai Club Foundation,established in 2011 by the Council on Foreign and Defence Policy,the Russian International Affairs Council,Moscow State Institute of International Relations,and the Higher School of Economics. British journalist Angus Roxburgh described it as part of the Russian propaganda effort.
