Hudson Institute Annual Report 2013 Hudson Institute Contents HUDSON INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2013 WWW.HUDSON.ORG 2 7 23 Message from the Chairman, and President & CEO 6 National Security 16 Economics 22 Religious Freedom and Human Rights 27 Hudson History 16 37 Hudson Institute needs your 30 financial support to continue Hudson Outreach, its innovative research. Investing Support, in Hudson means supporting and Finances independent policy research that promotes security, prosperity, 30 28 Management, Scholars, Philanthropy and Culture and freedom. Please consider and Staff contributing to Hudson Institute 35 on our support site: 30 Herman Kahn and Global hudson.org/about/support Board of Trustees Leadership Awards Message from the Chairman, and President & CEO Times like these require clear thinking, thorough analysis, and unconven- tional solutions. Times like these, in short, require the kind of forward-looking policy research and outreach that have been Hudson Institute’s hallmark for more than fifty years. Sarah M. Stern, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Kenneth R. Weinstein, President & CEO Rarely in recent history have the tilted into uncertainty in the after- tions, our experts provide policy- United States and its allies faced a math of an ill-conceived and poorly makers and opinion leaders with broader array of urgent challenges: designed federal reform program. guidance about the best new ideas a resurgent and belligerent Russia; Times like these require clear for the advancement of global an increasingly assertive China; thinking, thorough analysis, and security, prosperity, and freedom rising violence and instability driven unconventional solutions. Times and for the preservation of America’s by Islamist radicalism in the Middle like these, in short, require the kind central role in that effort. East and sub-Saharan Africa; the of forward-looking policy research 2013 was an especially productive threat of a nuclear-armed Iran; and and outreach that have been Hudson year at Hudson. Our experts and the reality of a nuclear-armed North Institute’s hallmark for more than policy centers did banner work. Korea. “Economic recovery” remains fifty years. Hudson’s Current Trends in Islamist anemic at best throughout much of Hudson’s organizing first prin- Ideology, the world’s leading scholarly the world—including here at home, ciple is the paramount importance journal on the subject, followed the where many have given up hope of engaged U.S. leadership and robust turbulence in the Muslim world of meaningful employment. The democratic alliances. Through a closely, publishing landmark essays American healthcare system, pre- program of scholarship, targeted on the Muslim Brotherhood move- viously unparalleled for quality, has briefings, conferences, and publica- ments in Egypt and Jordan, the 4 WWW.HUDSON.ORG challenge to secularism in Pakistan, Hudson established a dedicated pro- and we are proud to continue that and other crucial issues. Hudson’s gram on the future of the U.S. Navy, tradition through our relationship internationally recognized Center the Center for American Seapower, with Prime Minister Abe, who was for Religious Freedom raised early led by Senior Fellow Seth Cropsey. briefed by Hudson scholars in Tokyo warnings about emerging crises And we launched a new initiative in advance of his February 2013 visit such as the Boko Haram terrorist on India, designed to deepen the to the U.S. organization’s persecution of U.S–India strategic partnership and 2013 also saw Hudson confer its Christians in Nigeria, and Center promote market-oriented economic first-ever Global Leadership Award scholars published major books, reform in India, under the guidance on Noble Energy chairman and CEO including Senior Fellow Samuel of Senior Fellow Husain Haqqani, Charles Davidson, whose company Tadros’ widely acclaimed Mother- Hudson’s director for South and has spearheaded the exploration, land Lost: The Egyptian and Coptic Central Asia programs, and Research discovery, and initial extraction of Quest for Modernity. Our Bradley Fellow Aparna Pande, director of massive, previously unknown Center for Civil Renewal and Philan- Hudson’s Initiative on the Future of natural gas reserves in the Eastern thropy marked the tenth anniversary India and South Asia. Mediterranean—a project that is of the annual Bradley Prizes with a And, as always, through research, transforming the geostrategic cal- day-long symposium on the status writing, speeches, and closed-door culus in the region to the dramatic of freedom in the United States, briefings and public conferences benefit of American allies like Israel featuring a stellar cast of panelists with key policymakers in Washington and Cyprus. Honoring Davidson that included the late Gary Becker, and foreign capitals alike, Hudson’s highlights the vital role of visionary the University of Chicago’s legendary full team of experts made extensive, private-sector actors in shaping our Nobel economics laureate. Hudson’s signal contributions to national and world and underscores Hudson’s Center for Global Philanthropy, international debates about econom- commitment both to technological which studies private development ic growth, housing reform, techno- innovation as a practical tool for assistance, launched an ambitious logical innovation, trade and energy progress, and to out-of-the-box think- Index of Philanthropic Freedom policy, and ongoing and emerging ing as a general strategy for change. program to rigorously measure defense and diplomatic challenges Hudson Institute is pleased and how countries around the world on virtually every continent. grateful to have a great many friends incentivize—or discourage—the One measure of Hudson’s in- like these, of course. And to all of you kind of non-governmental giving flu ence is the kind of friends the we offer our sincerest thanks—for all that is critical to a healthy and Institute has always made—and kept. you have given us in the past, and for cohesive civil society. At a gala luncheon in New York in all we hope to accomplish together in In 2013, Hudson also undertook September, Hudson was honored to the future. a series of major new initiatives. We confer its annual Herman Kahn recruited distinguished new scholars Award on Japanese Prime Minister to the Hudson family, including Shinzō Abe—the first non-American former FCC commissioner Robert to receive the prize. The Prime McDowell. One of his accomplish- Minister graciously returned the favor ments at Hudson this year was to by delivering a major, widely-noted Sarah M. Stern work with other leading experts speech in which he unveiled his plans Chairman of the Board of Trustees in government and the policy for expanding Japan’s contribution to community to devise the first major the U.S.-led security alliance in Asia, telecommunications reform effort and for pursuing an intensive free- since 1996. Recognizing an urgent market reform of his nation’s domes- but generally overlooked issue in tic economy. Hudson has maintained long-term American national a close partnership with key Japanese Kenneth R. Weinstein security policy and planning, officials for more than forty years, President & CEO HUDSON INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2013 5 N ational Security For over 50 years, Hudson Institute has analyzed defense and foreign policy Last year, widespread developments, crises, and trends. Hudson’s scholars, many of whom have previously served in senior government positions, combine strong regional geopolitical tension and knowledge with an unequaled understanding of U.S. and foreign defense conflict continued to capabilities and doctrines. ripple across the globe. Last year, widespread geopolitical tension and conflict continued to ripple across the globe, with a civil war in Syria leaving more than 100,000 dead; Pictured opposite: U.S. Air Force Tech., 1st Combat a resurgent al Qaeda; rogue regimes in Tehran and Pyongyang; and an Camera Squadron in an F-16 Fighting Falcon increasingly unstable East Asia. Given these challenges, policymakers, Below: U.S. Army Lt. Col. Gilbert Roldan, with the military officials, the media, and opinion leaders looked to Hudson scholars 184th Security Force Advise and Assist Team, for in-depth research and discussion. observes Afghan Uniform Police recruits at Multina- In media outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street tional Base Tirin Kot, Uruzgan province, Afghanistan, Journal, Foreign Affairs, Le Monde, the Jerusalem Post, CNN, Fox News, PBS, Oct. 23, 2013, as they prepare to be transported to C-SPAN, as well as in congressional hearing rooms, Hudson scholars provided the Regional Military Training Center-Kandahar real-world analysis and policy recommendations. HUDSON INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2013 7 To increase awareness The Institute’s national security Forces, retired British Royal Naval of waning U.S. naval team includes former high-level Rear Admiral Christopher Parry, and officials like Hudson Senior Vice Admiral Jonathan Greenert, chief of strength, Seth Cropsey President Lewis Libby, who served naval operations. Cropsey also twice established the Center as chief of staff to Vice President testified before the U.S. House Com- for American Seapower. Richard Cheney; Douglas Feith, mittee on Armed Services about U.S. under secretary of defense for policy naval strategy and budget outlays. Cropsey argues that, from 2001 to 2005; Seth Cropsey, Senior Fellow Gabriel Schoenfeld unless reversed, the deputy undersecretary of the Navy offered commentary in numerous under Ronald Reagan and George media outlets, such as CNN and the steep decline in H. W. Bush; longtime senior Depart- Washington Post, on the steady pub- American naval ment of Defense officials Richard lication of NSA documents leaked power over the last Weitz and Abram Shulsky; and Jack by Edward Snowden. Senior Fellow David, deputy assistant secretary of Abram Shulsky continued his work two decades will defense for issues related to weapons on “Net Assessment and Intelligence: have profound of mass destruction from 2004 to Understanding the Other,” a report to consequences for 2006. be released in 2014. Writing in the Senior Fellow Seth Cropsey’s Journal of International Security U.S.