Think tank

Think tank

A think tank is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture.

Most think tanks are non-governmental organizations, but some are semi-autonomous agencies within government or are associated with particular political parties or businesses. Think-tank funding often includes a combination of millionaire donations and individual contributions, with many also accepting government grants.

Many think tanks are organized as non-profit.

 

Think tanks on Wikispooks

Wikispooks page	Logo	WWW	Description
21st Century Council		http://www.berggruen.org/	A behind-the-scenes think tank planning global governance, all financed by the billionaire Nicolas Berggruen.
Africa Institute
American Enterprise Institute		http://www.aei.org	The Godfather of Washington neo-conservative lobby groups
American Foreign Policy Council		http://www.afpc.org	US semiofficial think tank publishing plans to destroy Russia, disguised as "forecasts".
Aspen Institute		http://www.aspeninstitute.org/
Atlantic Council		https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/	Key part of the modern military-industrial congressional complex.
Atlantic Council of the United Kingdom		http://www.atlanticcounciluk.org/
Atlantic Treaty Association		http://www.ata-sec.org	A pro-NATO think tank.
Atlantik-Brücke			A long established and relatively public organ of the US to control German politics.
Atlas Network		http://www.atlasnetwork.org
Australian Strategic Policy Institute		https://www.aspi.org.au/	Its function is to give a serious academic appearance to dubious stories in the campaign against China.
Berggruen Institute		http://www.berggruen.org/	The think tank paid for by the billionaire Nicolas Berggruen, who has big ambitions.
Brookings Institution		http://www.brookings.edu/
Cato Institute		http://www.cato.org
Center for Global Development		http://www.cgdev.org
Center for Medicine in the Public Interest		http://cmpi.org	"nonprofit, non-partisan" big pharma astroturf
Center for Strategic and International Studies		http://csis.org	Powerful and spooky US think-tank
Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise		http://www.cdfe.org/
Centre for European Reform		http://cer.org.uk	The Centre for European Reform is a intelligence connected lobby group closely associated with the American Enterprise Institute and the deep state Atlantic Council.
Centre for Policy Studies		http://www.cps.org.uk
Centre for Social Cohesion
Centre for the New Europe		http://www.cne.org
CentreForum		http://www.centreforum.org
Chatham House		http://www.chathamhouse.org	A key organ of the UK Deep state
Civitas		http://civitas.org.uk/	Group which has a high intersection, in at least some activities, with the Institute for Statecraft
Civitatis International		http://www.paxcivitatis.org
Claremont Institute		http://www.claremont.org
Competitive Enterprise Institute		http://cei.org	A "vociferous anti-environmental" think tank.
Cornerstone Group		http://cornerstone-group.org.uk/	A group of Conservative MPs.
Council for a Community of Democracies		http://www.community-democracies.org
Council on Foreign Relations		http://www.cfr.org	A long established and relatively public organ of the US deep state.
Council on the Future of Europe			A part of Nicolas Berggruen's network
David Hume Institute		http://www.davidhumeinstitute.com
Democracy Institute		http://www.democracyinstitute.org
Demos		http://www.demos.co.uk/	Think tank that introduced Thatcherism into the Labour party, with the resulting formation of New Labour.
Edmund Burke Foundation		http://www.burkestichting.nl	A conservative think tank based in the Netherlands.
Electronic Privacy Information Center		http://epic.org	A think tank concerned with the impact of technology on privacy and free speech.
European Policy Forum		http://www.epfltd.org/
First Defence
Foundation for Defense of Democracies		http://www.defenddemocracy.org
Foundation for Research on Economics and Environment		http://free-eco.org/
Fraser of Allander Institute		https://fraserofallander.org
Freedom House		https://freedomhouse.org/	CIA backed group interested in internet censorship
Frontiers of Freedom		http://www.ff.org
Futures Forum		http://www.scotlandfutureforum.org
George C. Marshall Institute		http://www.marshall.org
Global Business Network
Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace			Small but influential think-tank for internet coordination
Globalisation Institute		http://www.globalisationinstitute.org
Henry Jackson Society		http://www.henryjacksonsociety.org	A British super-spooky neocon political action committee with a lot of former intelligence bosses. Especially connected to Israeli intelligence and the British Conservatives.
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UK Examples

• The Bow Group
• Catalyst
• Centre for European Reform
• Centre for Policy Studies [1]
• Centre for Reform
• Civitas [2]
• Crime and Society Foundation [3]
• Demos [4]
• Fabian Society [5]
• Forum for the Future [6]
• Foreign Policy Centre [7]
• Globalization Institute [8]
• International Policy Network
• Institute of Economic Affairs [9]
• Institute for Fiscal Studies [10]
• Institute of Ideas [11]
• Institute for Public Policy Research [12]
• Localis
• MigrationWatch UK
• New Politics Network
• Politeia [13]
• Reform [14]
• Royal Institute for International Affairs [15]
• Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies
• The Scientific Alliance
• Social Affairs Unit [16]
• Social Issues Research Centre
• Social Market Foundation [17]
• Tavistock Institute for Human Behavior
• The Work Foundation [18]
• Young Fabians

European Examples

• Afidora
• Brussels European and Global Economic Laboratory
• Centre for the New Europe [19]
• Civita [20]
• European Science and Environment Forum
• Edmund Burke Foundation [21]
• Studienzentrum Weikersheim
• Federation of European Employers [22]
• Istituto Bruno Leoni
• Libres [23]
• Open Republic Institute [24]
• Real Instituto Elcano [25]
• CASE - the Center for Social and Economic Research [26]

External links

• Stephen Boucher, "Europe and its think tanks : a promise to be fulfilled", Notre-Europe, October 2004.
• Sally Covington How Conservative Philanthropies and Think Tanks Transform US Policy Covert Action Quarterly, Winter 1998.
• Steven C. Clemons, "Thought Control", Tom Paine, November 19, 2003. "Money will always be part of the think-tank business. But when that money and the interests behind it lurk in the shadows of the policy debate, the nation's interests are put at risk."
• Allen S. Hepner, "Next-Generation think-tank techniques can bolster issues management results", Impact, Public Affairs Council, October 2004.
• Jill Junnola, "Perspective: Who funds whom?", CampusWatch.org from Energy Compass, October 4, 2002. Re neo-conservative think tank funding/funders.
• Robert Kuttner,"Comment: Philanthropy and Movements", The American Prospect, July 15, 2002. Excellent article relating "think tank" summit meeting between funders and four major conservative "philanthropies" — American Enterprise Institute, Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation, and Manhattan Institute — observed by an invited guest "liberal". This is a virtual "how to" to build a movement.
• Richard Morin and Claudia Deane, "The Ideas Industry", Washington Post. (The Ideas Industry column ran between July 2002 and April 2003 and has been discontinued but an archives of the columns is still accessible).
• National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, Moving a Public Policy Agenda: the Strategic Philanthropy of Conservative Foundations, a research report from the (NCRP)[27], July 1997. A hard copy of the report can be obtained for $US25 from here
• National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy,$1 Billion for Ideas: Conservative Think Tanks in the 1990s, March 1999. A hard copy of the report can be purchased for $US25 from here
• News from Reality: "The People We Pay to Think - a brief profile on the Rand Corporation and its links to the Carlyle Group.
• Amy Scott, "Under the Influence: an idea takes hold", Marketplace, June 2, 2005. (This story, which runs for just under 8 minutes, is a review of the campaign to repeal the estate tax).
• Amy Scott, "Under the Influence: exercising power", Morning Report, June 3, 2005. (This story, which runs for just over 3 minutes, is looks at the blurred role between lobbyists and think tanks).
• Amy Scott and Scott Tong, "Under the Influence: Think Tanks and the Money that Fueals Them", Marketplace, June 2-3
• Lawrence Soley, "Heritage Clones in the Heartland: Local think tanks' "research" comes pre-digested", EXTRA!, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, September/October 1998.
• Diane Stone, "Think Tanks and the Privatisation Band-Wagon", Manchester Metropolitan University, 1995.
• Scott Tong, "Under the Influence: what you pay for", Morning Report, June 2, 2005. (This story, which runs for just over 3 minutes, is a brief review of the Olin Foundation and its influence).
• Scott Tong, "Under the influence: left vs. right", Marketplace, June 3, 2005. (This story, which runs for just over 7 minutes, reviews the role of left and right wing think tanks).
• David Teather, "Liberals pledge millions to revive US left", The Guardian (UK), August 8, 2005.
• Chris Mooney , "Trust Us, We're Experts", TomPaine.com, September 28, 2005.

 

Examples

Page name	Description
Albert Einstein Institution	Spooky think tank specializing in the study of "nonviolence as a form of warfare." Has nothing to do with pacifism: "It is all about seizing political power or denying it to others".
Arlington Institute	American future-predicting think tank. Members include a former CIA director and other deep state actors; and also future Covid dissidents Catherine Austin Fitts and David E. Martin.
Ashland Institute for Strategic Studies
Atlantic Initiative	One of the transatlantic influence networks in Germany.
Atlantic Institute	Transatlantic think tank with similar goals to the Trilateral Commission, operational 1961-1988.
Australian Science Media Centre	Think tank created to dominate the narrative in Australian corporate media in scientific issues.
Australian Strategic Policy Institute	Its function is to give a serious academic appearance to dubious stories in the campaign against China.
Bosphorus Institute	Franco-Turkish think tank and deep state milieu. Heavy Bilderberger presence.
British Institute of International and Comparative Law
Bruegel	EU-aligned think tank that is accused of lobbying for technocratic big tech venture corporations.
Bruges Group	Officially, a eurosceptic think tank.
CChange
CEPII	French economic think tank with lots of Bilderbergers.
Cadogan Group
Canadian Global Affairs Institute
Canadian International Council	Influential Canadian think tank on foreign relations.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Center for American Progress	A very well funded US think tank and advocacy organization closely aligned with the Democratic Party establishment.
Center for European Policy Analysis
Center for Independent Studies	Australian libertarian think tank founded in 1976 which specialises in public policy research
Center for Strategic and International Studies	Powerful and spooky US think-tank
Centre for European Policy Studies	Corporate think-tank to influence EU policy
Centre for European Reform	The Centre for European Reform is a intelligence connected lobby group closely associated with the American Enterprise Institute and the deep state Atlantic Council.
Civita	Norwegian (neo)liberal think tank
Clingendael Institute	Dutch "independent think tank and academy on international affairs" which continued collaboration with the Institute for Statecraft after the Integrity Initiative leaks
EastWest Institute
Ethics and Public Policy Center	EPPC has functioned as the cutting edge of the neoconservative-driven culture war against progressive theology and secularism, and the associated effort to ensure right-wing control of the Republican Party.
European Stability Initiative	Think tank focusing on increasing migration into Europe. George Soros and other deep state funding.
Foreign Policy Centre	Think tank sponsored by deep state foundations
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
Freedom Institute
French Institute of International Relations	A "national think tank" founded by Thierry de Montbrial.
Geneva Association	Think-tank for the largest insurance companies. The association might be "the policy-coordination point for the ultra-Malthusian Club of Rome International".
German Council on Foreign Relations	Think tank with deep state connections
German Institute for International and Security Affairs
Global Panel Foundation	NGO with members who are mostly people with deep ties to the intelligence community, working behind the scenes promoting international cooperation with regard to decision-making and implementation processes.
Global Relations Forum	Turkish think tank founded by the Koç family and dominated by corporate interests.
Great Transition Initiative
Hudson Institute
Institut Montaigne	French deep state 'think tank' filled with multiple bilderbergers.
Institut für Terrorismusforschung	German research institute. Its work consists mostly of reinforcing the official narrative around "terrorism".
Institute for New Economic Thinking	George Soros front. Think tank to change economic policy.
Institute for Policy Studies	Progressive US think tank dependent on establishment foundations. Possible gatekeeper.
Institute for Regional Security	Spooky Australian think-tank
Institute for the Study of War
Institute of International Finance
Institute of Public Affairs
International Institute for Environment and Development
Italian International Affairs Institute	Transatlantic Italian think tank founded by Altiero Spinelli.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute	Neoconservative French think tank
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Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Madeleine Albright	“President Clinton and I first met Putin before that when he was kind of acting president at, this was an APEC meeting in New Zealand, and at that stage Putin was trying to be very ingratiating and trying to make new friends - he was still cold - and the issue about him is he is very smart and in these meetings. He did not have talking points and he took notes himself. He also is somebody I have to describe this because, they actually did kind of a jazz concert for President Clinton and President Clinton's driving around and Putin was sitting there like this..no rhythm whatsoever.. and and (sic), but the thing that is interesting is how smart he really is and directed he was. The thing that I speak to more is something that happened before, that in 91 when the Soviet Union had fallen apart I was running a think-tank and I was asked to participate in a big survey of all of Europe after the end of the Cold War, and we had questionnaires and focus groups and things like that, and the focus group I'll never forget, is one outside of Moscow where this man stands up and says "I'm so embarrassed we used to be a superpower and now we're Bangladesh with missiles". And what I think happened I write it not so easy not so difficult to really deduce this, is Putin identified himself with that person who felt that the dignity and the grandeur of Russia had been lost and he has is bound and determined to restore that in every single way.”	Madeleine Albright	2018

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:The Private Sector, Institutes, Think Tanks and Lobbying Organisations extract from The "Terrorism" Industry	book extract	1990	Edward Herman
File:Foreign Funding of Think Tanks in America.pdf	Paper	January 2020	RealClearPublicAffairs	The top foreign donors to the think tanks analyzed were Norway ($27.6 million), the United Kingdom ($27.1 million) and the United Arab Emirates ($15.1 million). The UAE is particularly interesting, since it is the top non-democratic donor in the study. The “vast majority” of the UAE’s donations went to “the Aspen Institute, the Atlantic Council, and the Brookings Institution, all of which received at least $4 million from the UAE.”

 

An official example

Name
The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies

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