CFTNI is America's voice for strategic realism.

The Center for the National Interest is a non-partisan public policy institution established by former President Richard Nixon. Its current programs focus on energy security and climate change, immigration and national security, and U.S. relations with China, Japan, Mexico, and Russia. The Center also publishes the bimonthly foreign affairs magazine The National Interest. The Center is supported by foundation, corporate and individual donors as well as by an endowment.