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 safeguard 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.
With increasingly distrusted elections, discredited institutions, and rising political violence, American democracy is in a vicious cycle. Severe polarization is rapidly narrowing the available solutions. Rachel Kleinfeld proposes the top five tools to put American democracy back on track.
Read the full set of recommendations in “Five Strategies to Support U.S. Democracy"
African Americans are overrepresented among U.S. military personnel but underrepresented in its highest ranks. Christopher Chivvis and Sahil Lauji identify current shortcomings and recommend ways to improve representation at the three and four-star general level.
Read the full set of recommendations in “Diversity in the High Brass”
Tunisian authorities should move quickly to revitalize their planned free-trade zone near the Libyan border, Hamza Meddeb argues. Otherwise, similar projects in Libya might come to fruition, denying Tunisia the revenues it desperately needs.
