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• Overall, we rate FPRI Right-Center Biased based on editorial positions and High for factual reporting due to strong sourcing and a clean fact check record.

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Bias Rating: RIGHT-CENTER Factual Reporting: HIGH Country: USA Press Freedom Rank: MOSTLY FREE Media Type: Organization/Foundation Traffic/Popularity: Medium Traffic MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY

Founded in 1955, The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) is an American think tank based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  The Institute researches geopolitics, international relations, and international security in the various regions of the world and ethnic conflict, U.S. national security, terrorism, and think tanks themselves. According to their mission , “The Foreign Policy Research Institute is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the United States. We educate those who make and influence policy, as well as the public at large, through the lens of history, geography, and culture.”

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Donations fund FPRI. The website does not clearly state who their large donors are. They do provide a link to the board of trustees, which reveals a lack of diversity .

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In review, the FPRI reports news and research with minimal bias, such as this: Chinese State Media on Coronavirus and President Trump . News and information are always properly sourced from credible media outlets. Editorially, they support a firm foreign policy that aligns with the right, such as holding concern over China’s increased power Biden’s take on China . The think tank also demonstrates concern for terrorism with a deep analysis of the threats that are highly sourced and factual. Finally, when it comes to science, they promote the consensus with both climate change and covid-19 . In general, they report news and information factually with a right-leaning editorial bias.

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Overall, we rate FPRI Right-Center Biased based on editorial positions and High for factual reporting due to strong sourcing and a clean fact-check record. (7/14/2016) Updated (D. Van Zandt 10/28/2022)

Source: https://www.fpri.org/

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The Foreign Policy Research Institute is dedicated to bringing the insights of scholarship to bear on the foreign policy and national security challenges facing the United States. It seeks to educate the public, teach teachers, train students, and offer ideas to advance U.S. national interests based on a nonpartisan, geopolitical perspective that illuminates contemporary international affairs through the lens of history, geography, and culture.

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The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is a bipartisan, nonprofit policy research organization dedicated to advancing practical ideas to address the world’s greatest challenges.

Thomas J. Pritzker was named chairman of the CSIS Board of Trustees in 2015, succeeding former U.S. senator Sam Nunn (D-GA). Founded in 1962, CSIS is led by John J. Hamre, who has served as president and chief executive officer since 2000.

CSIS’s purpose is to define the future of national security. We are guided by a distinct set of values—non-partisanship, independent thought, innovative thinking, cross-disciplinary scholarship, integrity and professionalism, and talent development. CSIS’s values work in concert toward the goal of making real-world impact.

CSIS scholars bring their policy expertise, judgment, and robust networks to their research, analysis, and recommendations. We organize conferences, publish, lecture, and make media appearances that aim to increase the knowledge, awareness, and salience of policy issues with relevant stakeholders and the interested public.

CSIS has impact when our research helps to inform the decisionmaking of key policymakers and the thinking of key influencers. We work toward a vision of a safer and more prosperous world.

At the height of the Cold War in 1962, Admiral Arleigh Burke and David Abshire founded the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. The institution was dedicated to the simple but urgent goal of finding ways for the United States to survive as a nation and prosper as a people.

Since its founding, CSIS has been at the forefront of solutions to the vexing foreign policy and national security problems of the day. In 1966, CSIS research triggered House hearings on the watershed Sino-Soviet split. In 1978, CSIS convened the first public hearing on Capitol Hill on the Cambodian genocide, sparking major changes in congressional and executive branch perceptions of the tragedy.

In 1985, a CSIS panel led to the Goldwater-Nichols legislation to reform the Defense Department and Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1998, it was a report from a CSIS retirement commission that became the bipartisan benchmark of the Social Security reform debate. In 2007, the CSIS Smart Power Commission provided a diagnosis of America’s declining standing in the world and offered a set of recommendations for a smart power approach to America’s global engagement. These are but a few of the highlights.

Today, CSIS is one of the world’s preeminent public policy institutions on foreign policy and national security issues. The Center’s over 250 full-time staff and large network of affiliated scholars conduct research and analysis and develop policy initiatives that look to the future and anticipate change. CSIS is regularly called upon by Congress, the executive branch, the media, and others to explain the day’s events and offer recommendations to improve U.S. strategy.

An independent not-for-profit organization since 1987, CSIS marked its first half-century of existence by moving into a new state-of-the-art headquarters in downtown Washington, DC, in 2013. With its traditional defense and security programs, initiatives focused on global challenges such as health and energy, and research projects dedicated to every corner of the globe, CSIS is well positioned for another 50 years of providing strategic insights and policy solutions to the world’s decisionmakers.

In 1985, a CSIS panel led to the Goldwater-Nichols legislation to reform the Defense Department and Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1998, it was a report from a CSIS retirement commission that became the bipartisan benchmark of the Social Security reform debate.

In 2007, the CSIS Smart Power Commission provided a diagnosis of America’s declining standing in the world and offered a set of recommendations for a smart power approach to America’s global engagement. In 2008, CSIS convened a commission of government and industry leaders to examine issues relating to cybersecurity. The ensuing report,  Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency , served as a roadmap for Obama administration policy and congressional legislative reform.

In 2018, the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security began work on a vision of global health security that can more predictably and reliably advance U.S. foreign policy goals and secure U.S. national interests. The commission’s work, built on bipartisan consensus, was critical in advance of and through the U.S. government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

In 2020, the CSIS Transnational Threats Project constructed a data set of domestic terrorist plots and attacks, which shifted the debate within the executive branch, Congress, and the U.S. public about the homeland threat from extremists. In 2022, CSIS researchers were at the forefront of forecasting a Russian invasion of Ukraine, the largest land war in Europe since World War II, using satellite imagery analysis of the Russian build-up and maps of possible Russian invasion routes. These are but a few of the highlights. 

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National Security Presidential Memorandum-33 (NSPM-33) was developed by federal agencies through the National Science and Technology Council’s (NSTC’s) Research Security Subcommittee and issued by the White House on January 14, 2021. The purpose was to strengthen protections of U.S. Government-supported Research and Development (R&D) against foreign government interference and exploitation. A focus was ensuring that participants in U.S. federal R&D fully disclose information that can reveal potential conflicts of interest and commitment. This led to the November 2023 publication of common disclosure forms ( biosketch and current and pending/other support ) intended for federal-wide use.  

NSPM-33 also called for the establishment of research security programs at institutions receiving >$50 million annually in federal R&D funding. Research security programs are to include four elements: 

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These elements were further defined in NSPM-33 Implementation Guidance developed by the NSTC’s Research Security Subcommittee and issued by the White House in January 2022 and in draft standards published by the Office of Science Technology Policy on March 7, 2023. Institutions are awaiting final standards and upon publication will have at least one year to implement them. 

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