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The EastWest Institute (EWI), originally known as the Institute for East West Security Studies, is an international not-for-profit, non-partisan "think and do" tank focusing on international conflict resolution through a variety of means, including track 2 diplomacy and track 1.5 diplomacy (conducted with the direct involvement of official actors), hosting international conferences, and authoring publications on international security issues. EWI was founded in 1980, when then CEO John Edwin Mroz and Ira D. Wallach set out to address areas of political dispute across the Iron Curtain. By employing networks in political, military, and business establishments in the United States, Europe, and the Soviet Union, EWI established itself as a leading organizer of track 2 negotiations. EWI has initiatives focused on a number of different areas including cybersecurity, preventive diplomacy, strategic trustbuilding (which encompasses Russia-United States relations and China-United States Relations), Economic Security, and Regional Security (focusing on specific areas such as Southwest Asia). In addition to its New York City Headquarters, EWI has offices in Brussels, Belgium and Moscow, Russia. ==History== In 1984, EWI hosted the first ever track 2 military-to-military discussions between the NATO and Warsaw Pact countries.These talks, focusing heavily on the establishment of confidence-building measures (CBMs) between the two parties, ultimately resulted in an agreement requiring each side to alert the other of troop movements. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the eruption of conflicts in Southeastern Europe, EWI worked to foster economic stability in the region, encouraging cross-border cooperation and training leaders for democratic states. In the 2000s (decade), EWI’s operations expanded geographically to China, Southwest Asia and the Middle East, focusing on issues like cybersecurity, economic security, and countering violent extremism. In May 2009, EWI released a Joint Threat Assessment on Iran, produced by senior U.S. and Russian experts convened by the Institute. The assessment, which concluded that the planned system would not protect against an Iranian nuclear threat,〔Ellen Barry, ("U.S. and Russia Begin Arms Talks With a December Deadline" ), ''The New York Times'', May 19th, 2009〕 helped inform the Obama administration's decision to scrap the ballistic missile defense plan proposed by the Bush administration and replace it with a plan of its own.〔Peter Spiegel, ("U.S. to Shelve Nuclear-Missile Shield" ), ''The Wall Street Journal'', September 17th, 2009〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「EastWest Institute」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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