Think Tanks and N.G.O.'s

Alphabetical Index

Worldpress.org’s index of international think tanks and research organizations.

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

Adam Smith Institute
London, United Kingdom

Adam Smith Research Center
Warsaw, Poland

The Adam Smith Society
Milan, Italy

Africa Institute of South Africa
Pretoria, South Africa

African Institute for Economic Development and Planning
Dakar, Senegal

African Institute for Economical and Social Developement
Abidjan, Ivory Coast

Agency for Social Analyses
Sofia, Bulgaria

Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies
Cairo, Egypt

Alfred Mozer Foundation
Amsterdam, Netherlands

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Washington, D.C.

American Foreign Policy Council
Washington, D.C.

American Institute for Contemporary German Studies
Washington, D.C

Americas Program
Silver City, N.M.

Amnesty International
London, United Kingdom

APOYO Institute
Lima, Peru

Applied Research Institute — Jerusalem
Bethlehem, Palestine

Argentine Center of International Studies
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Asia Society
New York, N.Y.

Asia/Pacific Research Center, Stanford University
Stanford, Calif.

The Asia-Australia Institute, University of New South Wales
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Asian and Pacific Developing Center
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The Aspen Institute
Washington, D.C.

Association on Third World Affairs Inc.
Washington, D.C.

The Atlantic Council of the United States
Washington, D.C.

Atlas Economic Research Foundation
Fairfax, Va.

The Australia Institute
Canberra, Australian Capitol Territory, Australia

Australia-Japan Research Center
Canberra, Australian Capitol Territory, Australia

Australian Institute of International Affairs
Deakin, Australian Capitol Territory, Australia

Austrian Institute of East and Southeast European Studies
Vienna, Austria

Austrian Society for Foreign Policy and International Relations
Vienna, Austria

Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights
Washington, D.C.

B

Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies
Dhaka, Bangladesh

The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-llan University
Ramat Gan, Israel

Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy
Berkeley, Calif.

Bonn Institute for Economic and Social Research
Bonn, Germany

Bremen Economic Research Institute
Bremen, Germany

British American Security Information Council
London, United Kingdom and Washington, D.C.

The Brookings Institution
Washington, D.C.

C

C.D. Howe Institute
Toronto, Ontario

Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace
Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Canadian Foundation for the Americas
Ottawa, Ontario

Canadian Institute of International Affairs
Toronto, Ontario

The Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies
Toronto, Ontario

Canadian Policy Research Networks
Ottawa, Ontario

Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
New York, N.Y.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Washington, D.C.

The Carter Center
Atlanta, Ga.

Cascade Policy Institute
Portland, Ore.

CASE Ukraine
Kyiv, Ukraine

Cato Institute
Washington, D.C.

Center for an Urban Future
New York, N.Y.

Center for Applied Studies in International Negotiations
Geneva, Switzerland

Center for Contemporary Conflict, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, Calif.

Center for Defense Information
Washington, D.C.

Center for Development Research
Copenhagen, Denmark

Center for Economic and Social Development
Baku, Azerbaijan

Center for Economic Development
Bratislava, Slovakia

Center for Economic Policy Research
London, United Kingdom

Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education — Economics Institute
Prague, Czech Republic

Center for European Policy Studies
Brussels, Belgium

Center for Global Studies
London, United Kingdom

Center for International Governance Innovation
Waterloo, Ontario

Center for International Policy
Washington, D.C.

Center for International Prospective Studies
Paris, France

Center for International Security and Strategic Studies, Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, Miss.

Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Mass.

Center for Latin American Monetary Studies
Durango, Mexico

Center for National Policy
Washington, D.C.

Center for National Security Studies
Washington, D.C.

Center for Pacific Asia Studies
Stockholm, Sweden

Center for Policy and Implementation Studies
Jakarta, Indonesia

Center for Policy Research
New Delhi, India

Center for Policy Studies
London, United Kingdom

Center for Research in Economics and Statistics
Paris, France

Center for Strategic Studies
Belgrade, Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro)

Center for Strategic and International Studies
Washington, D.C.

Center for the Study of American Business, Washington University in St. Louis
[see Weidenbaum Center]

Center for the Study of Democracy
Sofia, Bulgaria

Center of International Studies, Princeton University
[see Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS)]

Center of Studies for Development
Caracas, Venezuela

Center of Studies on Economics Development
Bogota, Colombia

Center on International Cooperation, New York University
New York, N.Y.

Central American Institute of Public Administration
San Jose, Costa Rica

The Century Foundation
[formerly the Twentieth Century Fund]
New York, N.Y.

Chatham House
[formerly The Royal Institute of International Affairs]
London, United Kingdom

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs
[formerly The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations]
Chicago, Ill.

Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research
Taipei, Taiwan

CIVICUS — World Alliance for Citizen Participation
Washington, D.C.

Committee for Economic Development
New York, N.Y.

Committee for Economic Development of Australia
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, N.Y.

Commonwealth Institute
Cambridge, Mass.

Council on Foreign Relations
New York, N.Y.

Counterpoint — The Cultural Relations Think Tank of the British Council
London, United Kingdom

D

Danish Institute of International Affairs
Copenhagen, Denmark

Danish National Institute of Social Research
Copenhagen, Denmark

Demos
London, United Kingdom

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Bonn, Germany

The Development Group for Alternative Policies
Washington, D.C.

Development Research Institute
Tilburg, Netherlands

Discovery Institute
Seattle, Wash.

The Distribution Economics Institute of Japan
Tokyo, Japan

Drug Policy Alliance
New York, N.Y.

E

East Asian Institute, Columbia University
New York, N.Y.

East-West Center
Honolulu, Hawaii

EastWest Institute
[formerly Institute for EastWest Studies]
New York, N.Y.

Economic Growth Center, Yale University
New Haven, Conn.

Economic Opportunity Institute
Seattle, Wash.

Economic Policy Institute
Washington, D.C.

Economic Strategy Institute
Washington, D.C.

Economic and Social Research Institute
Dublin, Ireland

Economists Platform
Istanbul, Turkey

The Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Washington, D.C.

The Eisenhower Institute
Washington, D.C.

Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Employee Benefit Research Institute
Washington, D.C.

Ethics and Public Policy Center
Washington, D.C.

The Eurasia Foundation
Washington, D.C.

European Human Rights Center
Strasbourg, France

European Institute for Risk, Security and Communication Management
Bucharest, Romania

European Institute of Public Administration
Maastricht, Netherlands

The European Policy Center
Brussels, Belgium

F

Federal Institute for Russian, East European and International Studies
Koln, Germany

Federation of American Scientists
Washington, D.C.

Finnish Institute of International Affairs
Helsinki, Finland

Focus on the Global South
Bangkok, Thailand

Foreign Policy Association
New York, N.Y.

Foreign Policy in Focus
Silver City, N.M.

Foreign Policy Institute
Ankara, Turkey

Foreign Policy Research Institute
Philadelphia, Pa.

The Freedom Forum
Arlington, Va.

Freedom House
New York, N.Y.

French Institute for International Relations
Paris, France

Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Bonn, Germany

Friends of Europe
Brussels, Belgium

The Fund for Peace
Washington, D.C.

Institute for EastWest Studies
[see EastWest Institute]

Institute for Economic Policy, University of Cologne
Koln, Germany

Institute for Economic Research
Ljubljana, Slovenia

Institute for Food and Development Policy
Oakland, Calif.

The Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis Inc.
Cambridge, Mass.

The Institute for Future Technology
Tokyo, Japan

Institute for International Economics
Washington, D.C.

Institute for International Policy Studies
Tokyo, Japan

Institute for International Relations
Zagreb, Croatia

Institute for International Relations, National Chengchi University
Taipei, Taiwan

Institute for Liberty and Democracy
Lima, Peru

Institute for National Policy Research
Taipei, Taiwan

Institute for Policy Analysis, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario

Institute for Policy Studies
Washington, D.C.

Institute for Public Affairs
Bratislava, Slovakia

Institute for Public Policy Research
London, United Kingdom

Institute for Research on Public Policy
Montreal, Quebec

Institute for Science of Labour
Kanagawa, Japan

Institute for Security and Development Policy
Stockholm, Sweden

Institute for Security and International Studies
Sofia, Bulgaria

Institute for Security Studies
Pretoria, South Africa

The Institute for Urban Economics
Moscow, Russia

Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Budapest, Hungary

Institute for the Analysis of Global Security
Washington, D.C.

Institute for the Economy in Transition
Moscow, Russia

Institute for the Future
Menlo Park, Calif.

Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean
Buenos Aires, Argentina

The Institute of Applied Energy
Tokyo, Japan

Institute of Asian Affairs
Hamburg, Germany

Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization
Tokyo, Japan

Institute of Development Studies
Brighton, United Kingdom

Institute of Economic Affairs
London, United Kingdom

Institute of Economic Analysis
Moscow, Russia

Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi
Delhi, India

Institute of Economic and Social Development
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
Novosibirsk, Russia

Institute of International Affairs
Rome, Italy

Institute of International Relations
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Institute of International Relations
Prague, Czech Republic

Institute of Policy Studies
Washington, D.C.

The Institute of Policy Studies
Singapore, Singapore

Institute of Public Affairs
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Institute of Research and Innovation
Tokyo, Japan

Institute of Social Studies
The Hague, Netherlands

Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Singapore, Singapore

Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad
Islamabad, Pakistan

Institute of Strategic and International Studies Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Institute of Systems Science Research
Kyoto, Japan

Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Beijing, China

Institute on Governance
Ottawa, Ontario

Institut Thomas More
Brussels, Belgium and Paris, France

Inter-American Dialogue
Washington, D.C.

InterAction — American Council for Voluntary International Action
Washington, D.C.

International Center for Economic Growth, University of the Pacific
Stockton, Calif.

International Crisis Group
Brussels, Belgium

International Development Center of Japan
Tokyo, Japan

International Development Research Center
Ottawa, Ontario

International Food Policy Research Institute
Washington, D.C.

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Laxenburg, Austria

International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
Stockholm, Sweden

International Institute for Environment and Development
London, United Kingdom

International Institute for Strategic Studies
London, United Kingdom

International Institute for Sustainable Development
Winnipeg, Manitoba

International Institute of Public Administration
Paris, France

Interhemispheric Resource Center
[see International Relations Center]

International Peace Research Institute Oslo
Oslo, Norway

International Relations and Security Network
Zurich, Switzerland

International Relations Center
[formerly Interhemispheric Resource Center]
Silver City, N.M.

Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information
Jerusalem, Israel

J

Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies
Tel Aviv, Israel

Japan Center for Economic Research
Tokyo, Japan

The Japan Institute of International Affairs
Tokyo, Japan

Japan Policy Research Institute
Cardiff, Calif.

Japan Research Institute
Tokyo, Japan

Japanese Institute of Middle Eastern Economies
Tokyo, Japan

Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
Washington, D.C.

K

Kansai Institute of Information Systems
Osaka, Japan

Kiel Institute of World Economics
Kiel, Germany

Korea Development Institute
Seoul, South Korea

Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade
Seoul, South Korea

Korea Institute for National Unification
Seoul, South Korea

Kyushu Economic Research Center
Fukuoka, Japan

L

Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning
Santiago, Chile

The Lauder Institute, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pa.

Lithuanian Free Market Institute
Vilnus, Lithuania

M

Malaysian Institute of Economic Research
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Marga Institute
Colombo, Sri Lanka

Marin Peace & Justice Coalition
Marin County, CA

The Maurice Falk Institute for Economic Research in Israel
Jerusalem, Israel

Middle East Institute
Washington, D.C.

Middle East Policy Council
Washington, D.C.

Migration Policy Institute
Washington, D.C.

Mine Action Information Center
James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia

Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies
Tel Aviv, Israel

N

The National Bureau of Asian Research
Seattle, Wash.

National Bureau of Economic Research
Cambridge, Mass.

National Center for Policy Analysis
Dallas, Tex.

National Council of Applied Economic Research
New Delhi, India

The National Endowment for Democracy
Washington, D.C.

National Institute for Public Policy
Fairfax, Va.

National Institute for Research Advancement
Tokyo, Japan

The National Institute of Development Administration
Bangkok, Thailand

National Institute of Development Research and Documentation
Gaborone, Botswana

National Institute of Economic and Social Research
London, United Kingdom

National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies
Paris, France

National Security Archive, The George Washington University
Washington, D.C.

Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development
Berkeley, Calif.

New Zealand Business Roundtable
Wellington, New Zealand

Nippon Research Institute
Tokyo, Japan

The Nixon Center
Washington, D.C.

North American Congress on Latin America Inc.
New York, N.Y.

Northeast-Midwest Institute
Washington, D.C.

Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Oslo, Norway

O

Overseas Development Council
Washington, D.C.

Overseas Development Institute
London, United Kingdom

Oxfam International
Oxford, United Kingdom

OXONIA: The Oxford Institute for Economic Policy
Oxford, United Kingdom

P

PIR Center for Policy Studies
Moscow, Russia

Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy
San Francisco, Calif.

Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
Islamabad, Pakistan

Philippine Institute for Development Studies
Manila, Philippines

Policy Network
London, United Kingdom

The Policy Studies Institute
London, United Kingdom

Population Council
New York, N.Y.

Population Reference Bureau
Washington, D.C.

Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS)
Princeton, N.J.

Progressive Policy Institute
Washington, D.C.

Public Policy Institute of California
San Francisco, Calif.

R

RAND Corporation
Santa Monica, Calif.

Reason Foundation
Los Angeles, Calif.

Reporters Without Borders
Paris, France

Research Institute for European and American Studies
Athens, Greece

The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy
Helsinki, Finland

Research Institute of the German Society for Foreign Affairs
Berlin, Germany

Research Institute on the National Economy, Kokumin Keizai Research Institute
Tokyo, Japan

Research Triangle Institute
Research Triangle Park, N.C.

Resources for the Future
Washington, D.C.

The Re’ut Institute
Tel Aviv, Israel

Right Web
Silver City, N.M.

The Royal Institute of International Affairs
[see Chatham House]

Russell Sage Foundation
New York, N.Y.

S

The Science Policy Research Unit
[see SPRU-Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex]

SPRU-Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex
[formerly The Science Policy Research Unit]
Brighton, United Kingdom

The Sejong Institute
Seoul, South Korea

The Sobieski Institute
Warsaw, Poland

Social Market Foundation
London, United Kingdom

Social Research Informatics Center
Budapest, Hungary

Social Science Research Council
New York, N.Y.

South African Institute of Race Relations
Braamfontein, South Africa

The Southern Center for International Studies
Atlanta, Ga.

Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, German Institute for International and Security Affairs
Berlin, Germany

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Solna, Sweden

Studentenforum im Tönissteiner Kreis e.V.
Berlin, Germany

Sun Yat-Sen Institute for Social Sciences and Philosophy, Academia Sinica
Taipei, Taiwan

Swedish Institute of International Affairs
Stockholm, Sweden

Systems Research & Development Institute of Japan
Tokyo, Japan

T

Taiwan Institute of Economic Research
Taipei, Taiwan

TakingITGlobal
Toronto, Ontario

Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel
Jerusalem, Israel

The Thailand Development Research Institute Foundation
Bangkok, Thailand

Tönissteiner Kreis e.V.
Berlin, Germany

Transnational Institute
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Transparency International
Berlin, Germany and London, United Kingdom

Twentieth Century Fund
[see The Century Foundation]

U

United Nations African Institute for Economic Development and Planning
Dakar, Senegal

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Geneva, Switzerland

United Nations Electoral Assistance Project, Nigeria
Lagos, Nigeria

United States Institute of Peace
Washington, D.C.

Urban Institute
Washington, D.C.

V

The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies
Vienna, Austria

W

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Washington, D.C.

Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Cambridge, Mass.

Western Policy Center
Washington, D.C.

Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development
Morrilton, Ark.

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Washington, D.C.

World Policy Institute
New York, N.Y.

World Resources Institute
Washington, D.C.

Worldwatch Institute
Washington, D.C.

Weidenbaum Center, Washington University in St. Louis
[formerly Center for the Study of American Business]
St. Louis, Mo.




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