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129: 25: 601:, Security Assistance Monitor (SAM) tracks and analyzes U.S. security and defense assistance programs worldwide. By informing policymakers, media, scholars, NGOs and the public in the United States and abroad about trends and issues related to U.S. foreign security assistance, their aim is to enhance transparency and promote greater oversight of U.S. military and police aid, arms sales and training. 641:
The Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative (FITI) "believes that promoting transparency is the best tool for highlighting the impact – potentially for both good and ill – of foreign influence on American democracy." Directed by Ben Freeman, the program "works to devise policy solutions to increase
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The SAM database compiles all publicly available data on U.S. foreign security assistance programs worldwide from 2000 to the present. Collected from a wide range of government documents, the database provides detailed numbers on U.S. arms sales, military and police aid and training programs. Users
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The Arms and Security Project engages in media outreach and public education aimed at promoting reforms in U.S. policies on nuclear weapons, military spending and the arms trade. It seeks to advance the notion that diplomacy and international cooperation are the most effective tools for protecting
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The Sustainable Defense Task Force (SDTF) is a "bipartisan group of experts from academia, think tanks, government, and retired members of the military." CIP launched the Sustainable Defense Task Force (SDTF) in November 2018 to strategize a 10-year budget plan for the
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website. The center is currently the fiscal sponsor of the environmental protection organization, Mighty Earth, and Freedom Forward. Several prominent individuals serve as senior fellows and board members with CIP, including former Costa Rican president
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and supporting the movement of funds to programs for judicial reforms and economic development. In June 1999, the program led the first ever congressional delegation to meet with insurgent leaders inside the territory they controlled.
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the incentives for agents to properly register and report the work they are doing on behalf of foreign powers and to make the details of such contracts and work publicly available." Most recently, FITI is heavily critical of the
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on human rights violations in South Korea and the role of South Korean lobbyists in Washington. In 1978, the center established an Indochina Program, which advocated the normalization of diplomatic relations with
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in 1983, the center began a campaign that pushed for provisions that prohibited the US representative to the IMF to support loans to countries that practice
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joined the Center in 1991 to establish its Cuba program, working towards the normalisation of relations between the United States and
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worked on Cuba policy, joining the Center in 2001 with the Freedom to Travel project. She left CIP in 2006 and then launched the
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established the Latin American Security program, which still operates today. The program campaigned against the militarisation of
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introduced legislation that incorporated foreign countries' human rights records into consideration of security and economic aid.
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and then-retired US foreign service official Donald Ranard, who served as the center's first executive director.
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During its first years, the Center focused its work on Asia, especially United States foreign policy towards
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joined CIP in the same year to head the center's Asia program which focused on
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The center is the parent organization for a variety of projects, including the
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In June 2007, the Americas Program joined CIP after the dissolution of the
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can search these numbers by country, region, program and assistance type.
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In the mid-1970s, while at the time also co-chairs of the center's Board,
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Hartung's research is most frequently sited in publications such as
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The center was founded in 1975 under the fiscal sponsorship of the
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Foreign policy and strategy think tanks in the United States
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In 1990, the center established a joint program with the
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American foreign policy research institute (founded 1975)
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The center currently operates nine programs including
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