BRIEF HISTORY:The Center for International Strategy, Technology and Policy (CISTP) was chartered as an interdisciplinary policy research center in July 1990.  Over the past twelve years, CISTP has been a leader in promoting an understanding of the new security environment that has emerged since the end of the Cold War.  From its beginnings, CISTP recognized the futility in adding to the existing mountains of paper concerning global problems and has sought to take an active role in the formulation and realization of solutions.  The Center has therefore gone beyond the traditional research role of most university-based institutions to take substantive steps toward finding solutions to some of the world’s pressing security problems

.OVERVIEW:Demonstrating Georgia Tech’s renewed commitment to the relationship of technology to society and the changing needs of the 21^st Century, the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy (CISTP) forms a new and dynamic union between business, government, and the academic community.  In a world where all nations are quickly becoming neighbors, the Center encourages the use of technology to address major foreign policy issues affecting relations among states and non-governmental organizations.

The center is dedicated to the concept that well-conceived policy advice insures that technology services society.  Using innovative interdisciplinary approaches that pull together the unique talents of the Georgia Tech research and broader academic community, the center provides timely answers to sponsors in the public and business sectors who have questions regarding investment, risk, development, and defense matters.