Today’s interconnected world offers an unprecedented opportunity to bring together experts and top scholars in the field with students in research and scholarship to work on the nation's most pressing challenges in a way that promotes common ground and bipartisan policy solutions. The Sine Institute of Policy & Politics will seize that opportunity at a defining moment for our democracy and the world. The Sine Institute will harness American University's capital city location at the nexus of government and a growing international business center to connect diverse perspectives from around the country and around the world with our world-class academics and research, experienced practitioners in international and domestic views, leaders in business, nonprofits, and government, and the most politically-active student body in the US to make real, lasting change in policy and politics. The institute stands apart through its focus on the role of business and the nonprofit community in public policy, the rise of the importance of economic regions in the United States, and international policy issues.