Editing Morton Isaac Abramowitz (section)

==Post-Government Career==
After retiring from the State Department, Abramowitz remained influential in international affairs:  

1991–1997: He served as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he established the Carnegie Moscow Center, mentored future leaders, and oversaw the construction of Carnegie’s Washington, D.C., headquarters. The Carnegie Endowment has acted as a funding source for the CIA operations around the world.

1995–Present: Co-founded the International Crisis Group (ICG) in 1995, inspired by a 1993 visit to Sarajevo during the Bosnian War. The ICG, conceived with Mark Malloch-Brown and Fred Cuny, became a leading organization for conflict prevention and resolution. Abramowitz served as acting president in 1997–1998 and remained a board member. 

The ICG receives significant funding from Western governments, with 43% of its 2019 budget ($30 million total) from state sources, including the U.S., Australia, and the UAE. It also receives grants from foundations like the Open Society Foundations ($20 million in 2022) and the Charles Koch Institute ($2.4 million in 2021). 

A 2014 Third World Quarterly special issue critiqued ICG’s role in “knowledge production” about conflicts, noting its influence on policymakers and potential to “manufacture” crises. Tom Hazeldine’s 2010 New Left Review article described ICG as complicit in a “North Atlantic Counsel,” implying alignment with NATO and U.S. interests

Post-1997: As a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, he continued to influence policy. He served on the boards of the [[National Endowment for Democracy]] (NED) for nine years, earning its Democracy Service Medal in 2007, and the International Rescue Committee, reflecting his commitment to humanitarian causes. He also co-chaired the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Turkey Initiative.

The Century Foundation was founded in 1919 by Edward A. Filene as the Cooperative League (later renamed TCF), TCF has a progressive legacy, focusing on economic equity, education, and foreign policy. Its leadership has included figures like Adolf A. Berle Jr. (OSS officer and former board member), a New Deal-era official involved in intelligence during World War II, and Clark Kerr (former trustee), who was linked to CIA-funded programs via the University of California’s oversight of Los Alamos. The presence of former government officials like Michael Morell (former acting CIA director and TCF senior fellow since 2013).  TCF’s funding comes from endowments, individual donors, and grants from progressive foundations like the Open Society Foundations and the Carnegie Corporation. It does not disclose detailed donor lists, but its 2019 revenue was approximately $11 million. TCF’s foreign policy work, including reports on U.S.-China relations and Middle East policy, often engages with U.S. government priorities.  

His tenure at NED, which serves as a CIA front, is also indicative of his playing a role in the destabilization, Strategy of Tension and [[Operation Gladio]] regime change activities. 
 
Publications and Thought Leadership
Abramowitz authored and co-authored several influential works, including Remaking China Policy (1971, with Richard Harris Moorsteen), Moving the Glacier: The Two Koreas and the Powers (1971), Testing North Korea: The Next Stage in U.S. and ROK Policy (2001), and Chasing the Sun: Rethinking East Asian Policy (2006, with Stephen Bosworth). He edited The United States and Turkey: Allies in Need (2003) and Turkey’s Transformation and American Policy (2000), shaping U.S. foreign policy discourse.  He serves as an author generating the necessary 'research' to justify the actions of international syndicate.