This article is a list of notable think tanks sorted by country.

United Nations

European Union

* European Council on Foreign Relations *

Leap2020 LEAP (Laboratoire Européen d'Anticipation Politique, English: European Laboratory of Political Anticipation) is a think tank established to analyse and anticipate global economic developments from a European perspective and to publish a paid-subsc ...

OneEurope OneEurope is a non-profit and independent grassroots think-tank, established in 2011, which aims to give opportunities to citizens to raise topics and communicate between nations and cultures. OneEurope is managed solely by volunteers. It has been ...

Albania

* Albanian Institute for International Studies

Argentina

* Balseiro Institute * Institute of Scientific and Technical Research for Defense * Leloir Institute *

National Agricultural Technology Institute The National Agricultural Technology Institute ( es, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria), commonly known as INTA, is an Argentine Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) ...

* National Atomic Energy Commission * National Institute of Industrial Technology * National Scientific and Technical Research Council

Australia

* Australia Institute (TAI) *

Australian Institute of International Affairs The Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) is an Australian research institute and think tank which focuses on International relations. It publishes the ''Australian Journal of International Affairs''. It is one of the oldest act ...

(AIIA) * Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) *

Brisbane Institute The Brisbane Institute was an independent think tank based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. History The Brisbane Institute was founded in 1999. Peter Botsman, who had previously been the executive director of the Evatt Foundation, was the in ...

* Centre for Independent Studies * Centre for Policy Development * Chifley Research Centre * Committee for Economic Development of Australia * Development Policy Centre * East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) * Evatt Foundation * Grattan Institute *

H.R. Nicholls Society The HR Nicholls Society is an Australian think tank that focuses on industrial relations. It advocates full workplace deregulation, contains some Liberal MPs as members and is seen to be of the New Right. It was created in March 1986 after John ...

* Institute of Public Affairs (Australia) (IPA) * Lowy Institute for International Policy * Mannkal Economic Education Foundation * Menzies Research Centre * Per Capita * Prosper Australia * Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) *

Sydney Institute The Sydney Institute is a privately funded Australian policy forum founded in 1989. The institute took over the resources of the Sydney Institute of Public Affairs which ceased activity in the late 1980s. The institute was opened on 23 August 19 ...

* The McKell Institute *

United States Studies Centre The United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney aims to increase understanding of the United States in Australia and enrich the Australia–United States relations, Australia–United States relationship. The centre teaches undergr ...

Western Australia Policy Forum The Western Australia Policy Forum (WAPF) was a think tank based in Western Australia. It was independently funded and was established in 2007. It was the first think tank in Australia, which has a federal system of government, concerned solely wit ...

Azerbaijan

Center for Economic and Social Development Center for Economic and Social Development, or CESD; in Azeri, İqtisadi və Sosial İnkişaf Mərkəzi (İSİM) is an Azeri think tank, non-profit organization, NGO based in Baku, Azerbaijan. The Center was established in 2005. CESD focuses on ...

(CESD) *

Center for Strategic Studies under the President of Azerbaijan The Center for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SAM) is Azerbaijan’s first governmental, non-profit think tank founded on November 12, 2007 by the Decree of the President, Ilham Aliyev. Its headquarters is in ...

Bangladesh

* Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) * Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs (BILIA) * Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies (BIPSS) * Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) *

Making Our Economy Right Making Our Economy Right (MOER) is a free market think tank in Bangladesh. Headquartered in Dhaka, the institute was established in 1991 by Nizam Ahmad. MOER is sponsored by the Atlas Foundation in the United States. Deroy Murdock, an American ...

(MOER)

Belgium

Bruegel Brueghel or Bruegel () was the name of several Dutch/Flemish painters from the Brueghel family: * Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525–1569), the most famous member of the family and the only one to sign his paintings as "Bruegel" without the ''H'' ...

* Centre for European Policy Studies * Centre for the New Europe *

Egmont Egmont may refer to: * Egmont Group, a media corporation founded and rooted in Copenhagen, Denmark * Egmond family (often spelled "Egmont"), an influential Dutch family, lords of the town of Egmond ** Lamoral, Count of Egmont (1522–1568), the bes ...

* European Centre on the International Political Economy * European Policy Centre * Friends of Europe *

International Crisis Group The International Crisis Group (ICG; also known as the Crisis Group) is a transnational non-profit, non-governmental organisation founded in 1995. It is a think tank, used by policymakers and academics, performing research and analysis on global ...

* Itinera Institute *

Liberales Liberales is an independent liberal think tank (some tend to call Liberales left-liberal), located in Ghent, Flanders, Belgium. The organization promotes progressive liberalism and supports individual freedom, justice, a certain degree of ...

* Nova Civitas * Vlaamse Volksbeweging

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Foreign Policy Initiative BH Foreign Policy Initiative BH is nongovernmental, non-profit and independent policy research organization based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Foreign Policy Initiative conducts research of foreign policy, international relations and intern ...

Brazil

* Fundação Getúlio Vargas * Institute of Applied Economic Research

Canada

* Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada * Atlantic Institute for Market Studies * Atlantic Provinces Economic Council * Broadbent Institute * C. D. Howe Institute * Caledon Institute of Social Policy * Canada West Foundation * Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives * Canadian Global Affairs Institute * Canadian Institute for Advanced Research * Canadian International Council * Canadian Tax Foundation * Centre for International Governance Innovation * Conference Board of Canada * Council of Canadians * Fraser Institute * Frontier Centre for Public Policy *

Institute for Liberal Studies The Institute for Liberal Studies (ILS) is a registered educational charity located in Ottawa, Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean an ...

* Institute for Research on Public Policy * International Institute for Sustainable Development * Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms * Macdonald-Laurier Institute * Montreal Economic Institute * Mowat Centre * North-South Institute * Pembina Institute * Public Policy Forum *

Wellesley Institute Wellesley Institute is a non-profit and non-partisan research and policy think tank in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its mission is to advance urban health and reduce health inequities through research and knowledge mobilization on the social determi ...

Chile

* Centro de Estudios Públicos *

Libertad y Desarrollo Libertad y Desarrollo, abbreviated to LyD, is a Chilean think tank focused on liberal, free market economic studies. Founded in 1990, the think tank defines itself as a "center for studies and private research, independent of any political, r ...

China

China Center for International Economic Exchanges The China Center for International Economic Exchanges (CCIEE) is a think tank based in Beijing, China. The CCIEE is an international economic research, exchange, and consulting service organization approved by the government of the People's Republ ...

* China Development Institute * Chinese Academy of Social Sciences * Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences * State Information Center of China *

Taihe Institute Taihe Institute (), otherwise known as Taihe or TI, is an independent, non-profit think tank founded in 2013. Based in Beijing, China, and with a regional center in Europe, the organization conducts research on international relations, economics, ...

Costa Rica

* Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales

Czech Republic

* CEVRO * Institute for Social and Economic Analyses

Denmark

CEPOS Centre for Political Studies, also known as CEPOS, is an independent association which works as a classical liberal/ free-market conservative think-tank in Denmark. It is a strongly right-leaning and highly political association. History Inspired ...

Copenhagen Institute The Copenhagen Institute is a Danish Free Market think tank. It was founded in 2003 hosting a conference on tax competition. It has a clear libertarian leaning. The Copenhagen Institute was originally called MarkedsCentret, but changed its name ...

* Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies

Egypt

Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies The al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies (ACPSS) is an Egyptian research institute specializing in political science created in 1968 as part of the al-Ahram Foundation. Independence In October 2019, during the Abdel Fattah el-Sisi ...

Finland

Åland Islands Peace Institute The Åland Islands Peace Institute in Mariehamn, Finland, conducts projects and research into peace and conflict issues in a broadly defined sense from the vantage-point of Åland and the special status that Åland enjoys under international law. ...

* Crisis Management Initiative * Demos Helsinki * European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats *

Finnish Institute of International Affairs The Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA, fi, Ulkopoliittinen instituutti, sv, Utrikespolitiska institutet, UPI) is an independent research institute that produces topical information and research on international relations and the ...

* Research Institute of the Finnish Economy

France

* Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales (CEPII) * Cercle de l'Oratoire * Conférence Olivaint * European Union Institute for Security Studies *

Gracques The Gracques, named after the Gracchi brothers, are a French Social liberal think-tank. During the French presidential election of 2007, a group of former high-ranking civil servants published an open letter titled ''Merci, François !'' ("Thank ...

* Groupement de recherche et d'études pour la civilisation européenne * Institut Choiseul for International Politics and Geoeconomics * Institut français des relations internationales (IFRI) * Institut Montaigne *

Jacques Delors Institute The Jacques Delors Institute (french: Institut Jacques Delors), which also uses the name ''Notre Europe'' (French for "Our Europe"), is an independent think tank based in Paris. Founded in 1996 by Jacques Delors, it aims to "think a united Europ ...

* Mont Pelerin Society * Saint-Simon Foundation * Sport and Citizenship

Georgia

Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies The Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies also known as Rondeli Foundation (GFSIS; ka, საქართველოს სტრატეგიისა და საერთაშორისო ურთიერთო� ...

* New Economic School – Georgia

Germany

* Atlantic Community * Bonn International Center for Conversion * Bundesakademie für Sicherheitspolitik *

Centre for European Policy The Centre for European Policy (German: ''cep , Centrum für Europäische Politik'' ) (cep) is a German think tank whose task it is to evaluate the European Union's draft laws and legislation on the basis of ordoliberal free market criteria. Es ...

* Center for Monitoring, Analysis and Strategy (CeMAS) *

Deutsche Gesellschaft für auswärtige Politik The German Council on Foreign Relations (german: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e. V. (DGAP)) is Germany's national foreign policy network and policy research institute. As an independent, private, non-partisan and non-profit ...

Friedrich Ebert Foundation The Friedrich Ebert Foundation (''German: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V.; Abbreviation: FES'') is a German political party foundation associated with, but independent from, the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Established in 1925 as the ...

* Friedrich Naumann Foundation *

German Advisory Council on Global Change The German Advisory Council on Global Change (German: ''Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen'', WBGU) is an independent, scientific advisory body to the German Federal Government, established in 1992 in the ...

(WBGU) * German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) * German Institute for International and Security Affairs *

German Institute of Global and Area Studies The German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) is a German research institute. It analyses political, economic and social developments in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, and combines this analysis with comparative rese ...

Hanns Seidel Foundation The Christian Social Union of Bavaria, CSU-associated Hanns Seidel Foundation (german: Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung) is a German party-associated and taxpayer-money funded political research Foundation (charity), foundation. It was founded in November 19 ...

* Heinrich Böll Foundation * Ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (IFO) * Konrad Adenauer Foundation * Peace Research Institute Frankfurt *

Rosa Luxemburg Foundation The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (german: Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung), named in recognition of Rosa Luxemburg, occasionally referred to as ''Rosa-Lux'', is a transnational alternative policy lobby group and educational institution, centered in Germa ...

Stiftung Neue Verantwortung Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV) (roughly "New Responsibility Foundation" in English) is a German non-profit think tank based in Berlin that specializes in public policy related to technology's effect on society. SNV deals with the topics of IT s ...

(SNV) *

Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik The German Institute for International and Security Affairs (german: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik; SWP) is a German think tank in international relations and security studies. A semi-official organization with close links to the federal gove ...

(SWP) * Walter Eucken Institut

Greece

Centre of Planning and Economic Research The Centre of Planning and Economic Research (KEPE) was established in 1959 as a research unit, under the title "Centre for Economic Research", analyzing contemporary developments in the Greek economy, engaging in short and medium-term forecasts, f ...

(KEPE) * Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) * International Centre for Black Sea Studies (ICBSS)

Hong Kong

Bauhinia Foundation Research Centre The Bauhinia Foundation Research Centre was a privately funded public policy think tank in Hong Kong. The organisation stated that its aim was "to promote the understanding of the 'one country, two systems' arrangements in Hong Kong and other ...

* Central Policy Unit – a government department * Civic Exchange *

HKGolden50 HKGolden50 () is a small policy research organisation in Hong Kong. It claims to be "non-political, non-profit, independent" although its prime mover is Franklin Lam. a former member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong. The group publishes ...

* Hong Kong Democratic Foundation * New Century Forum * One Country Two Systems Research Institute *

Our Hong Kong Foundation Our Hong Kong Foundation is a Hong Kong think tank established in 2014 by former chief executive Tung Chee-hwa. It conducts research in land, housing, economic development, innovation and technology, social innovation, mainland/Hong Kong econ ...

* Path of Democracy *

The Global Institute for Tomorrow The Global Institute For Tomorrow (GIFT) is a Hong Kong–based think tank focusing on economic, political and social issues from an Asian perspective. Founded in 2006 by Chandran Nair, its stated mission is to advance “a deeper understanding o ...

The Lion Rock Institute The Lion Rock Institute () is a not-for-profit free-market think tank in Hong Kong. The Lion Rock Institute describes itself as Hong Kong's first independent free-market think tank. According to the Institute's website, it was created "to ensur ...

The Professional Commons The Professional Commons is an independent, membership-based, non-profit organisation and public policy think tank established in Hong Kong on 25 March 2007. It is open to all professionals who share the same values. Mission The Professional ...

Hungary

Centre for Fair Political Analysis The Centre for Fair Political Analysis (CFPA; Méltányosság Politikaelemző Központ) is a Hungarian think tank. It studies social and political cohesion. It was founded in 2007. CFPA is independent and non party affiliated. CFPA's philosophy ...

* Club of Budapest * Danube Institute * Millennium Institute

India

* Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) – New Delhi * Centre for Civil Society (CCS) – New Delhi * Centre for Policy Research (CPR) - New Delhi * Centre for Public Policy Research – Kochi, Kerala *

Chennai Centre for China Studies The Chennai Centre for China Studies (C3S) is an Indian think tank that carries out research on developments in China offering a peninsular perspective and assigns priority to Indian policy interests. History C3S was registered under the Tami ...

(CCCS) *

Foundation for Democratic Reforms The Foundation for Democratic Reforms is a non-profit, non-partisan and independent research institution founded by Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan, an Indian Administrative Service officer turned politician and a political activist based in Hyderabad. ...

(FDR) – Hyderabad,

Telangana Telangana (; , ) is a state in India situated on the south-central stretch of the Indian peninsula on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the eleventh-largest state and the twelfth-most populated state in India with a geographical area of and ...

Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs The Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA) is a central civil service training institute under the jurisdiction of Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India for the central civil servants of the Indian Corporate Law Service cad ...

(IICA) - New Delhi * Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) * Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies (NCDS), Bhubaneswar * Observer Research Foundation (ORF) – New Delhi * Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) – New Delhi *

Strategic Foresight Group Strategic Foresight Group (SFG) is a think tank based in India that works on global issues. It was established in 2002. SFG has worked with governments and national institutions of 60 countries from around the world. It produces scenarios and p ...

(SFG) – Mumbai * United Service Institution of India (USI-India) – New Delhi * Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) – New Delhi

Indonesia

* Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Ireland

* Institute of International and European Affairs (IEA) * Iona Institute * TASC (Think-Tank for Action on Social Change)

Iran

* Association for Iranian Studies *

Foundation for Iranian Studies The Foundation for Iranian Studies is an American non-profit institution founded in 1981 in Washington DC, and later moved to Maryland, dedicated to educating the public about Iran/Persia. Since 1982 they host an oral history program. The director ...

Institute of Iran and Eurasia Studies The Iran Eurasia Research Institute, also known as the Institute of Iran Eurasian Research Institute (Iras), is an independent, private, non-partisan, non-governmental organization in Iran, Tehran. The organization aims to study Central Asia, th ...

(Iras) *

Ravand Institute The Ravand Institute for Economic and International Studies is the first Iranian think tank of its kind. It is an independent, private, non-partisan, non-governmental organization focusing on important policy issues facing Iran. Publications The ...

Scandinavian Society for Iranian Studies The Scandinavian Society for Iranian Studies ( fa, انجمنِ ایران‌شناسیِ اسکاندیناوی) is a Scandinavian association of scholars working in the field of Iranian Studies with members not only from Scandinavian countries, b ...

Israel

* Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies * Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies * Institute for National Security Studies *

Israel Council on Foreign Relations The Israel Council on Foreign Relations (ICFR) is an independent, non-partisan forum for the study and debate of foreign policy issues, especially those relating to the State of Israel and the Jewish people. The ICFR publishes a triannual policy a ...

* Israel Democracy Institute *

Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) is an Israeli research institute specializing in public diplomacy and foreign policy founded in 1976. Currently, the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs's research portfolio consists of five primar ...

Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research __NOTOC__ Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research (JIPR), formerly the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, is an independent policy think tank located in Jerusalem. The institute conducts policy studies on Jerusalem, innovation policy (R&D), ...

* Reut Institute *

Shaharit ''Shacharit'' ( he, שַחֲרִית ''šaḥăriṯ''), or ''Shacharis'' in Ashkenazi Hebrew, is the morning ''tefillah'' (prayer) of Judaism, one of the three daily prayers. Different traditions identify different primary components of ...

Shalem Center The Shalem Center ( he, מרכז שלם, ''Merkaz Shalem'') was a Jerusalem research institute that supported academic work in the fields of philosophy, political theory, Jewish and Zionist history, Bible and Talmud, Middle East Studies, archaeolo ...

* Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

Italy

* Bruno Leoni Institute * Club of Rome * European University Institute *

Future Italy Future Italy (''Italia Futura'', IF) was an Italian liberal-centrist think tank, formed in 2009 by Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, chairman of Alitalia (since 2014) and former chairman of Ferrari (1991–2014), FIAT (2004–2010) and Confindustria (2 ...

* Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) *

Istituto Affari Internazionali The Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) (English: Institute of International Affairs) is an Italian international relations think tank, and non-profit organisation founded in 1965 by Altiero Spinelli. It is ranked among the global top-20 think ta ...

* Trinità dei Monti

Japan

* Asian Development Bank Institute *

Genron NPO Genron NPO (言論ＮＰＯ) is a Japanese think tank A think tank, or policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technol ...

* Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO) *

Japan Institute of International Affairs The Japan Institute of International Affairs (abbreviated as JIIA, Japanese: 日本国際問題研究所 ''nihon kokusai mondai kenkyūjo'') is a foreign policy and security think-tank in Japan. It was established in December 1959. It was modelled ...

* National Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA)

Kazakhstan

Institute of World Economics and Politics An institute is an organisational body created for a certain purpose. They are often research organisations ( research institutes) created to do research on specific topics, or can also be a professional body. In some countries, institutes ca ...

(IWEP) * Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies (KISS) *Qazaqstan Institute of Social Studies (QISS)

Kenya

Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA) is an autonomous public institute that was established in May 1997 through a Legal Notice and commenced operations in June 1999. In January 2007 the President of Kenya signed th ...

Lebanon

Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) is located at the American University of Beirut (AUB). This independent institute develops policy research in the Arab region and provides a space for the exchange of ideas ...

Malaysia

Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs The Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) is a Malaysian think tank dedicated to promoting solutions to public policy challenges. It was founded on 8 February 2010. IDEAS is headquartered at Jalan Hang Lekir, Kuala Lumpur. His ...

(IDEAS)

Mexico

* Center of Research for Development (CIDAC) *

Instituto de Pensamiento Estratégico Ágora The Instituto de Pensamiento Estratégico Ágora A.C. (IPEA) is a private, independent, apolitical and non-profit think tank dedicated to the construction of a free, virtuous and prosperous society. It focuses on the development of youth, researc ...

(IPEA)

Netherlands

Center for European Renewal The Center for European Renewal (CER) is a pan-European conservative organization based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The CER was founded as the Vanenburg Society in the summer of 2007 by a group of mainly European conservatives. They included Dut ...

Edmund Burke Foundation The Edmund Burke Foundation (''Edmund Burke Stichting'') is a conservative group based in The Hague, the Netherlands. History The Edmund Burke Foundation was founded in 2000 by a group of young conservatives, including professor Andreas Kinneging ...

* International Institute for Research and Education *

Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy The Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD; Dutch: ''Nederlands Instituut voor Meerpartijendemocratie'') works to promote peaceful, just and inclusive politics worldwide. NIMD's approach is characterized by dialogue, which it facili ...

* Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael * The Hague Institute for Global Justice *

Wiardi Beckman Foundation The Wiardi Beckman Stichting (The Wiardi Beckman Foundation) is a Dutch think tank linked to the left-of-centre Labour Party (PvdA).http://www.wbs.nl/over-de-wbs Information Wiardi Beckman Stichting The foundation is named after Herman Bernard W ...

(PvdA)

New Zealand

Centre for Strategic Studies New Zealand The Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand (CSS:NZ) is an international and military affairs research ( strategic studies) centre located in Wellington, New Zealand. Formerly jointly supported by the New Zealand Ministry of Defence, New Zealand ...

Helen Clark Foundation The Helen Clark Foundation ( mi, Mahi a Rongo) is an Aotearoa New Zealand-based independent, non-partisan public policy think tank hosted by Auckland University of Technology. Formation The foundation was formed in 2019 and is named after Helen ...

* Maxim Institute *

McGuinness Institute The McGuinness Institute Te Hononga Waka is a non-partisan think tank based in Wellington, New Zealand, working towards a sustainable future, contributing strategic foresight through evidence-based research and policy analysis. Established in 20 ...

Motu Economic and Public Policy Research Motu Economic and Public Policy Research is an economic and public policy research institute based in Wellington, New Zealand. Founded in September 2000 New Zealand Initiative The New Zealand Initiative is a pro-free-market public-policy think tank and business membership organisation in New Zealand. It was formed in 2012 by merger of the New Zealand Business Roundtable (NZBR) and the New Zealand Institute. The Initia ...

* New Zealand Institute (2004–2012) * New Zealand Institute of Economic Research

Nigeria

African Centre for Development and Strategic Studies African Centre for Development and Strategic Studies is a multidisciplinary research and developmental think tank founded in 1991 and located in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, Nigeria. The centre is dedicated to policy research and strategic studies of Afr ...

(ACDESS) *

National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) in Kuru, Nigeria is a policy formation center for bureaucrats, private sector leaders, Army officers, and medium-rank and senior civil servants, which was founded in 1979. Most policymaker ...

(NIPSS) *

Nigerian Economic Summit Group The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) is a private sector-led think-tank and policy advocacy group based in Nigeria. The NESG promotes sustainable growth and the development of the Nigerian economy. It is a non profit, non-partisan and apoliti ...

(NESG) * Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA)

Pakistan

Applied Economics Research Centre The Applied Economics Research Centre (AERC) () is a research institute of University of Karachi. It was established in 1973 by the Government of Sindh and financially assisted by Ford Foundation. Prof. Dr. Ehsan Rasheed, the distinguished alumni ...

(AERC) * Centre for Aerospace and Security Studies (CASS) * Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) * Institute of Regional Studies(IRS) * Institute of Strategic Studies (ISS) *

Islamabad Policy Research Institute ThIslamabad Policy Research Institute(IPRI), established in 1999, is one of the leading think tanks in Pakistan. It is affiliated with the National Security Division (NSD), Government of Pakistan. IPRI focuses on datafication, digitalization and d ...

(IPRI) *

Pakistan Academy of Sciences The Pakistan Academy of Sciences ( ur, ) ( abbreviated as: PAS), is a learned society of sciences, which described itself as "a repository of the highest scientific talent available in the country." Established in 1953 in Lahore, Punjab, ...

* Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) *

Pakistan Institute of International Affairs The Pakistan Institute of International Affairs (PIIA) () is a non-profit, non-governmental organization based in Karachi whose mission is to analyse and promote the understanding of major international issues and current affairs. History PIIA wa ...

(PIIA) *

Research Society of International Law The Research Society of International Law (RSIL) was founded by Mr. Ahmer Bilal Soofi in 1993. RSIL works in policy and research, its mission is to conduct research on the dynamic between Pakistan and its international legal obligations. RSIL is ap ...

(RSIL) *

Social Policy and Development Centre Based in Karachi, Pakistan, the Social Policy and Development Centre (SPDC) is considered one of the pre-eminent economic policy research institutions in Pakistan and its services are much in demand by the government, civil society, academia, stude ...

(SPDC) *Sustainable Development Policy Institute

Philippines

* Center for Research and Communication (CRC) *

Foreign Service Institute The Foreign Service Institute (FSI) is the United States federal government's primary training institution for employees of the U.S. foreign affairs community, preparing American diplomats as well as other professionals to advance U.S. foreig ...

(FSI)

Poland

* Adam Smith Centre * Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW) *

Institute of Economics Institute of Economics may refer to: *Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica in Taiwan *Institute of Economics (Poland) * Institute of Economics of the Polish Academy of Sciences *Max Planck Institute of Economics in Germany *Institute of Economic ...

* Polish Institute of International Affairs * Sobieski Institute * The Casimir Pulaski Foundation (FKP) *

The Kosciuszko Institute The Kosciuszko Institute ( pl, Instytut Kościuszki) is a Polish independent, non-profit, non-governmental think tank and research institute established in Kraków in 2000. The KI's areas of expertise include European Union's and Polish instituti ...

Russia

* Agentura.Ru *

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* Carnegie Moscow Center (United States-based) * Center for Strategic Research (Russia) * Central Economic Mathematical Institute * Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies *

Civil Society Development Foundation The Foundation for Civil Society Development (Russian: Фонд развития гражданского общества) is a non-governmental organisation whose main focus of research is in the fields of politics, regional development and co ...

* Dialogue of Civilizations (DOC) (Berlin-based) *

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* INSOR * Institute for Election Systems Development * Institute for US and Canadian Studies *

Institute of Democracy and Cooperation The Institute of Democracy and Cooperation is a think tank in Paris. It is a separate organisation from the similarly named think-tank in New York. Both were founded in 2008 by a Russian lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena and a group of Russian NGOs, but th ...

(IDC) (Paris-based) * Institute of World Economy and International Relations *

Izborsky club The Izborsky Club is a Russian Conservative think tank which specializes in studying Russia's foreign and domestic policy. It was founded by publicist Alexander Prokhanov in September 2012 and includes several well-known nationalist and tradit ...

* Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISI) * Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC)Carolina Vendil Pallin and Susanne Oxenstierna. (August 2017)
Russian Think Tanks and Soft Power
* SOVA Center * Valdai Discussion Club

Saudi Arabia

* King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center

Serbia

Balkan Trust for Democracy Balkan Trust for Democracy (abbreviation: BTD) is a foundation based in Belgrade, Serbia. It was founded in March 2003 by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Charl ...

* Centre for Contemporary Politics *

European Fund for the Balkans The European Fund for the Balkans (Serbian Cyrillic: Европски фонд за Балкан; abbreviation: EFB) is an organisation based in Belgrade. It was founded in 2008 as a joint initiative by the Robert Bosch Stiftung, the ERSTE Founda ...

* Institute of International Politics and Economics *

Institute of Political Studies in Belgrade Institute of Political Studies in Belgrade is an academic institution in Belgrade, Serbia. It is for research of political science. History The institute was founded in 1968 by the Government of SFR Yugoslavia The Socialist Federal Republic of ...

Singapore

* Institute of Policy Studies * Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy * Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum*

Singapore Institute of International Affairs The Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA) is a Singaporean research institute and think tank which focuses on international relations, especially in ASEAN and the Asia-Pacific (APAC). The Institute conducts research, hosts events, an ...

* S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

Slovakia

Forum Minority Research Institute The Forum Minority Research Institute or Forum Institute (''Fórum Kisebbségkutató Intézet'' or ''Fórum Intézet'' in Hungarian and ''Fórum inštitút pre výskum menšín'' or ''Fórum inštitút'' in Slovak) is a Slovak think tank with it ...

* Globsec * Institute for Public Affairs (IVO)

South Africa

* Centre for Conflict Resolution * Centre for Development and Enterprise *

Free Market Foundation The Free Market Foundation (FMF) is a classical liberal think tank located in Bryanston, Johannesburg, South Africa. Founded in 1975, the FMF was established to further human rights and democracy through the principles of an open society, the r ...

* Institute for Security Studies

South Korea

Center for Free Enterprise The Center for Free Enterprise (in Korean 자유기업원) is a libertarian, formerly neoconservative, think-tank based in Seoul, South Korea. Although the CFE was originally established upon the libertarian belief according to the philosophy ...

(CFE) * Korea Development Institute (KDI) * Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP) * Korea Institute of Public Administration (KIPA) *

Sejong Institute Sejong Institute ( Korean: 세종연구소, Hanja: 世宗硏究所) is a non-profit, independent organization for public interest and a leading think tank in South Korea, dedicated to developing strategies and policies in areas of foreign ...

* The Asan Institute for Policy Studies (The Asan Institute)

Spain

Barcelona Centre for International Affairs The Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) is a Spanish think tank headquartered in Barcelona, devoted to research in the field of international relations. It defines itself as an "independent institution" that studies specifica ...

(CIDOB) * Club of Madrid * Elcano Royal Institute * Foundation for Analysis and Social Studies (FAES) * FRIDE *

Fundación Alternativas Fundación Alternativas (in English ''Alternatives Foundation'') is a Spanish progressive think tank created in 1997 in Madrid which aims to discuss issues of interest to citizens and act as a channel of political, social, economic and cultural ...

* IDEAS Foundation for progress * Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas * Royal Institute of European Studies (RIEE)

Sri Lanka

* Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies *

LIRNEasia LIRNE''asia'' (Learning Initiatives on Reforms for Network Economies ''Asia'') is an information and communication technology (ICT) policy and regulation think-tank active in the Asia Pacific region. The organization is incorporated under Sri Lanka ...

Sweden

Captus Captus is a conservative Swedish think-tank that was founded in Gothenburg in 2005. It regularly publish articles mainly in Swedish but also in international media such as ''The Guardian'', '' Human Events'', ''The Wall Street Journal ''The ...

* Eudoxa *

Ratio Institute The Ratio Institute is an independent Swedish research institute focusing on the conditions for enterprise, entrepreneurship and market economy and political change. The institute's infrastructure is financed by the Confederation of Swedish Enterpri ...

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is an international institute based in Stockholm. It was founded in 1966 and provides data, analysis and recommendations for armed conflict, military expenditure and arms trade as well a ...

Timbro Timbro is a liberal think tank and publishing company located in Stockholm, Sweden. In its present form Timbro was founded in 1978 by Sture Eskilsson and the Swedish Employers’ Association, a precursor to the Confederation of Swedish Enterpris ...

Switzerland

Avenir Suisse Avenir Suisse is a classical liberal think tank focused on Switzerland’s future in political, economical and social areas. Its main goal is to stimulate the public debate and to provide new ideas through the publication of studies and the regul ...

* Center for Security Studies * ''foraus'' · Swiss Forum on Foreign Policy * Geneva Centre for Security Policy * Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces * Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining * Horasis *

Liberales Institut The Liberales Institut (Liberal Institute, Institut Libéral, Istituto Liberale) is a Swiss classical liberal think tank, founded in Zürich in 1979. It publishes mainly in German, French and Italian, and accessorily in English English u ...

* World Economic Forum

Taiwan

* Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research * Industrial Technology Research Institute * Institute for Information Industry * Institute for National Defense and Security Research * National Applied Research Laboratories *

Prospect Foundation Prospect Foundation (), is a think tank based in Taiwan, established in 1997, which aims to analyze the Cross-Taiwan-Strait relations and international politics and economy and provide suggestions of policies for Taiwan government. There are abou ...

* Taiwan Asia Exchange Foundation *

Taiwan Competitiveness Forum Taiwan Competitiveness Forum (, TCF) is a policy think tank in Taiwan led by academics supporting Chinese Unification. History The group was founded on August 15, 2007, by scholars who "worried about the deadlock situation of the Cross-Strait rel ...

* Taiwan External Trade Development Council * Taiwan Foundation for Democracy * Taiwan Institute of Economic Research

Turkey

* Global Political Trends Center (GPoT Center) *

International Strategic Research Organization The International Strategic Research Organization (USAK, acronym from its Turkish name ''Uluslararası Stratejik Araştırma Kurumu'') is an independent think-tank established in 2004. It pursues interdisciplinary studies on national and internat ...

(USAK) * Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV)

Ukraine

Centre of Policy and Legal Reform The Centre of Policy and Legal Reform ( uk, Центр політико-правових реформ; ''Tsentr polityko-pravovykh reform'') is a Ukrainian non-governmental think tank founded in 1996. Mission The mission of the CPLR is to s ...