The Foreign Policy Centre is an independent think-tank committed to developing innovative thinking and effective solutions for our increasingly interdependent world. It was launched in 1998 by the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Tony Blair MP...

Their mission statement says that "because today's problems have exploded across the boundaries of nations and departments of state, The Foreign Policy Centre has abandoned the tradition of organising its work around desk officers, each monitoring geographical areas or particular government departments." If correct this means that the FPC is the first foreign policy research centre to organise it's thinking around the major cross-cutting global issues, so that they can create joined-up solutions....