Hudson Institute is a non-partisan policy research organization dedicated to innovative research and analysis that promotes global security, prosperity, and freedom.  We challenge conventional thinking and help manage strategic transitions to the future through interdisciplinary and collaborative studies in defense, international relations, economics, culture, science, technology, and law.  Through publications, conferences and policy recommendations, we seek to guide global leaders in government and business.

Since our founding in 1961 by the brilliant futurist Herman Kahn, Hudson's perspective has been uniquely future-oriented and optimistic.  Our research has stood the test of time in a world dramatically transformed by the collapse of the Soviet Union, the rise of China, and the advent of radicalism within Islam.  Because Hudson sees the complexities within societies, we focus on the often-overlooked interplay among culture, demography, technology, markets, and political leadership.

Our broad-based approach has, for decades, allowed us to present well-timed recommendations to leaders in government and business.  Thus, in the 1970s, Hudson's scholars helped turn the world away from the no-growth policies of the Club of Rome; in the early 1990s, we helped the newly-liberated Baltic nations become booming market economies; at home, we helped write the pioneering Wisconsin welfare reform law that became the model for successful national welfare reform in the mid-1990s.  Today, as part of our research agenda, we are developing programs of political and economic reform to transform the Muslim world.

Our current research agenda includes:

• The War on Terror and the Future of Islam
• The Rise of Asia and U.S.-Asian Relations
• Human Rights in Asia and Africa
• Civil Justice Reform and Judicial Policy
• Agricultural and Biotechnology Policy
• Civil Society and Global Philanthropy
• Market Reforms and the 21st Century Welfare State