The Slade Gorton International Policy Center

The Gorton Center will incorporate and build on current projects in the areas of economics and trade at The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR). Topics will include the intersection of domestic economic policy and the global economy, economic policies of China, energy security, and energy and the environment.

The Gorton Center will also address the issues central to Slade's work on the 9/11 Commission, focusing on how America organizes internally to protect the country from outside threats.

The Gorton Center will employ a lean, core staff that will collaborate with top institutions and contract with premier people to conduct research, hold seminars, and briefings, and engage decisionmakers. To ensure the Center's effectiveness in the nation's capital, the Center will draw upon NBR's Washington, D.C., office.

The Gorton Center will have three research priorities. First, the Gorton Center will incorporate and build on ongoing NBR initiatives to sponsor research in economics and trade, energy security, energy and the environment, and other important issues.

Second, the Gorton Center will build on NBR’s robust program of terrorism-related studies and leverage Slade’s work as the first permanently appointed member of the 9/11 Commission to address how the United States is organized to meet the difficult intelligence questions of our time.

Third, the Gorton Center will embark on a new initiative in keeping with Senator Gorton’s—and Senator Scoop Jackson’s—passion for encouraging the pursuit of freedom, democracy, security, and prosperity throughout the world. Underscoring the proposition that open societies, rule of law, and vigilant defense are essential to a peaceful, just, and prosperous future, the Gorton Center will seek to understand the nexus of freedom and security in an Asian context.

The Slade Gorton International Policy Center will be headquartered in NBR's new building, George F. Russell Jr Hall. Slade will have an office in the Gorton Center and advise its work. George F. Russell Jr Hall is strategically located across the street from the heart of the University of Washington and its students and faculty. (Click here to view map.)