Past Grants

Energy Spheres of Influence

Grant Year: 2019

Sarah Ladislaw will assess how reinvigorated great power competition will shape the energy sector. She will undertake research, commission a series of papers, and conduct three workshops on the potential emergence of energy spheres of influence. The project’s findings will be presented in a report.

Center for Strategic and International Studies International Security & Foreign Policy

$200,000

Eurasia Daily Monitor

Grant Year: 2019

Vladimir Socor will edit and publish Eurasia Daily Monitor, a daily report on key political, military, economic, and geopolitical developments in Eurasia.

The Jamestown Foundation International Security & Foreign Policy

$250,000

Innovation Mercantilism and the World Economy

Grant Year: 2019

David Hart, Robert Atkinson, and Stephen Ezell will explore whether interventionist economic policies, such as industrial subsidies and forced technology transfers, undermine the global innovation process. The project’s findings will appear in a report and policy briefings.

Information Technology & Innovation Foundation Domestic Public Policy

$72,235

State and Local Finance Initiative: Equipping Citizens and Their Leaders to Make Informed Choices About Their Fiscal Future

Grant Year: 2019

Kim Rueben will direct the research program of the State and Local Finance Initiative. The initiative will seek to improve the analytical capacity of state and local public officials to make informed choices on tax and spending priorities and optimize their tax systems to support economic growth and other policy goals. The initiative will provide regular analysis on a number of issues related to state and local public finance, including how recently enacted changes in federal tax policies will affect state and local governments and how changes in the economy as well as new laws and judicial rulings will affect state and local sales taxes. The project’s findings will appear in a series of reports and policy briefs as well as public events and dissemination activities directly targeting state and local officials.

Urban Institute Domestic Public Policy

$250,000

The Iraq Wars

Grant Year: 2019

Kenneth Pollack will research and write a book that examines the history of U.S. relations with Iraq since 1979. He will conduct interviews with key participants, access U.S. and Iraqi archival materials, and survey the secondary literature on the relationship.

American Enterprise Institute International Security & Foreign Policy

$74,800

Human Rights Diplomacy in the Era of Xi and Trump

Grant Year: 2019

John Kamm will direct an effort to enhance the policy community’s understanding of political developments in China in an era marked by the increasingly repressive rule of President Xi Jinping. He will conduct open-source research to document individual cases of persons imprisoned in China for expressing political or religious views. He will also conduct biannual trips to China to discuss these cases with representatives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Justice and to engage in policy outreach to elements of the U.S. government, as well as officials in allied governments and multilateral organizations. The project’s findings will appear in a series of papers, reports, and other publications.

The Dui Hua Foundation International Security & Foreign Policy

$180,000