Rerum Cognosere Causas

Top 15 US Think Tanks

 

1. Brookings Institutions

2. Council on Foreign Relations

3. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

4. Rand Corporation

5. Heritage Foundation

6. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

7. Center for Strategic & International Studies

8. American Enterprise Institute

9. Cato Institute

10. Hoover Institution

11. Human Rights Watch

12. Peterson Institute for International Economics

13. United States Institute of Peace

14. National Bureau of Economic Research

15. Center for Global Development

 

 

Top 20 Non-US Think Tanks

 

1. Chatham House

2. International Institute for Strategic Studies

3. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

4. Overseas Development Institute

5. Centre for European Policy Studies

6. Transparency International

7. German Council on Foreign Relations

8. German Institute for International and Security Affairs

9. French Institute of International Relations

10. Adam Smith Institute

11. Fraser Institute

12. European Council on Foreign Relations

13. Centre for Policy Studies

14. Institute of Development Studies

15. Centre for Economic Policy Research

16. Centre for European Reform

17. International Crisis Group

18. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance

19. Kiel Institute for the World Economy

20. Canadian International Council

 

 

Top 5 Think Tanks in Latin America and the Caribbean

 

1. Consejo Argentino para las Relaciones Internacionales  (Argentina)

2. Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (Costa Rica)

3. Libertad y Desarrollo (Chile)

4. Centro de Estudios Públicos (Chile)

5. Centro de Implementación de Políticas Públicas para la Equidad y el Crecimiento (Argentina)

 

 

Top 5 Think Tanks in Asia

 

1. Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (China)

2. Japan Institute of International Affairs (Japan)

3. Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (India)

4. Centre for Strategic and International Studies (Indonesia)

5. Institute for International Policy Studies (Japan)

 

 

Top 5 Think Tanks in the Middle East and North Africa

 

1. Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies (Egypt)

2. Center for Strategic Studies (Jordan)

3. Institute for National Security Studies (Israel)

4. Gulf Research Center (United Arab Emirates)

5. Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (United Arab Emirates)

 

 

Top 5 Think Tanks in Sub-Saharan Africa

 

1. Centre for Conflict Resolution (South Africa)

2. South African Institute of International Affairs (South Africa)

3. Institute for Security Studies (South Africa)

4. Free Market Foundation (South Africa)

5. Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (Senegal)

 

 

Top 5 Security and International Affairs Think Tanks

 

1. Brookings Institution

2. Chatham House

3. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

4. Council on Foreign Relations

5. International Institute for Strategic Studies

 

 

Top 5 International Development Think Tanks

 

1. Brookings Institution

2. Overseas Development Institute

3. Council on Foreign Relations

4. Rand Corporation

5. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

 

 

Top 5 International Economic Policy Think Tanks

 

1. Brookings Institution

2. Peterson Institute for International Economics

3. Fraser Institute

4. National Bureau of Economic Research

5. Adam Smith Institute

 

 

There are 5,465 think tanks worldwide

Breakdown:

• 1,872 in North America
• 1,208 in Western Europe
• 653 in Asia
• 538 in Latin America and the Caribbean
• 514 in Eastern Europe
• 424 in sub-Saharan Africa
• 218 in the Middle East and North Africa
• 38 in Oceania

 

There are 1,777 think tanks in the United States

• Nine out of 10 U.S. think tanks were created since 1951
• The number of U.S. think tanks has more than doubled since 1980
• Approximately 350 think tanks are based in Washington, more than in any country other than the United States

 

Source: Foreign Policy magazine January/February 2009 issue