Institutes and Think Tanks

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
http://www.aei.org
This “think tank” in Washington, D.C., is dedicated to the principles of “limited government, private enterprise, vital cultural and political institutions, and a strong foreign policy and national defense.”   A monthly newsletter and a variety of reports and papers are available online.

American Foreign Policy Council
http://www.afpc.org

“The American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing information to those who make or influence the foreign policy of the United States and to assisting world leaders, particularly in the former USSR, with building democracies and market economies.”   Some full-text resources online.

ANSER Institute for Homeland Security
http://www.homelandsecurity.org/
ANSER is a nonprofit public service research institute.   From the ANSER Web site: “It is our belief that the 21st century will present the American people with far different national security challenges than the 20th century.   Preparing for these new challenges will require a determined, integrated effort at every stage of the process: deterrence, prevention, preemption, crisis management, consequence management, attribution and retaliation.”   Researchers can also access the Journal of Homeland Security and a weekly e-mail newsletter on the site.

Atlantic Council of the United States
http://www.acus.org 
The council “promotes constructive U.S. leadership and engagement in international affairs based on the central role of the Atlantic community in the contemporary world situation.”   Full-text resources available at this site include policy papers, speeches, and reports.

Brookings Institute
http://www.brookings.org
Foreign policy, economics, and government research, analysis, and scholarly thought. Publications include the Brookings Review, Brookings Policy Briefs, and more than 30,000 pages of online books.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  http://www.ceip.org
Site contains news, publications, programs, and events related to advancing cooperation among the nations of the world.

The CATO Institute
http://www.cato.org
“ The Cato Institute seeks to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets and peace.”   Extensive online resources, including the “CATO Policy Report”

Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
www.upmc-biosecurity.org
Links to sites and articles with information on protection against biological warfare attacks

Center for Defence and International Security Studies (CDISS)
http://www.cdiss.org/

An interdisciplinary research center in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom

Center for Defense Information
http://www.cdi.org
CDI, based in Washington, D.C., calls itself “the nation’s foremost independent military research organization.”   This site accesses “The Defense Monitor,” current “hot spots,” and many other topics.

Center for International Policy
http://www.ciponline.org
“Founded in 1975, the Center for International Policy is a nonprofit educational and research organization promoting a U.S. foreign policy based on international cooperation, demilitarization and respect for basic human rights.   In recent years, the Center has worked for the restoration of democracy in Haiti, the adoption of a more rational policy toward Cuba, and the promotion of Central America's peace process.”   International Policy Reports are available online in full text.

Center for Nonproliferation Studies
http://cns.miis.edu
Sponsored by the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California. Searchable topics include Chem/Bio Weapons, Missiles, Nuclear Weapons, and Treaties.   Current topics of interest to the center include Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Project (CBWNP), East Asia Nonproliferation Project (EANP), International Organizations and Nonproliferation Project (IONP), Monitoring Proliferation Threats Project (MPT), and the Newly Independent States Nonproliferation Project (NISNP).

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
http://www.csis.org
Publisher of the Washington Quarterly, the Washington Papers, and a variety of other newsletters and books, CSIS focuses on national and international security issues, governance, and current and emerging global issues.
http://www.csis.org/homeland/
The new Homeland Defense page from CSIS makes many documents available in full text.

Council on Foreign Relations
http://www.cfr.org
“Founded in 1921, the Council on Foreign Relations is a nonpartisan membership organization, research center, and publisher. It is dedicated to increasing America's understanding of the world and contributing ideas to U.S. foreign policy.” The Web site contains an array of resources on topics including arms control, peacekeeping, globalization, intelligence, and terrorism. There are regional links to abstracts from articles in Foreign Affairs, and the Terrorism Resource Center has links to full-text papers and articles.

Federation of American Scientists
http://www.fas.org
Information on intelligence resources, chemical and biological weapons, nuclear nonproliferation, and much more

Heritage Foundation
http://www.heritage.org
“Founded in 1973, The Heritage Foundation is a research and educational institute—a think tank—whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.”   Online links include “key issues” and other information organized by tabs: “for lawmakers,” “for researchers,” “for activists,” “for scholars,” etc.

Hoover Institution
http://www-hoover.stanford.edu
In the words of Herbert Hoover, founder of the Hoover Institution, “The overall mission of this Institution is, from its records, to recall the voice of experience against the making of war, and by the study of these records and their publication, to recall man's endeavors to make and preserve peace, and to sustain for America the safeguards of the American way of life.” Resources include the institution’s online newsletter, digest, and the Policy Review.

Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis
http://www.ifpa.org
“Founded in 1976, the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IFPA) is an independent and nonpartisan research and strategic planning organization that specializes in issues of national security, foreign policy, political economics, and government-industrial relations.”   Online resources include full-text studies and conference reports, as well as excerpts from research reports.

Institute for the Advanced Study of Information Warfare
http://www.psycom.net/iwar.1.html

International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism
http://www.ict.org.il/
The International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) was established in 1996 at the academic Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya (IDC) in Israel.   ICT focuses solely on the subject of counterterrorism.   “All of its efforts and resources are dedicated to approaching the issue of terrorism globally—that is, as a strategic problem that faces not only Israel but other countries as well.”   Features terrorist organization profiles, a terrorist attack database, and information on state-sponsored and nonconventional terrorism (nuclear, chemical, biological, and cyber terrorism).

The Nautilus Institute
http://www.nautilus.org
The Nautilus Institute’s mission is to “solve interrelated critical global problems by improving the processes and outcomes of global governance.”   Areas of particular concern to the institute are nuclear war and global insecurity, unregulated global markets, and coastal ecology and urbanization. 

Potomac Institute for Policy Studies
http://www.potomacinstitute.org/
The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies is a not-for-profit public policy research institute that performs nonpartisan analysis of technology and technology policy to leaders in government, business, and academia.   Some institute reports available in full text.

Rand Corporation
http://www.rand.org
RAND has a long history of research on issues relating to the national security and public welfare of the United States.   Its work involves most of the major disciplines in the physical, social, and biological sciences, with emphasis on their applications to problems of policy and planning in domestic and foreign affairs.   A number of Rand products are available online in full text at this site.

Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies (RUSI)
http://www.rusi.org
Founded in 1831 by the Duke of Wellington and based in London, RUSI is dedicated to the study, analysis, and debate of issues affecting international defense and security issues.   Links to RUSI’s publications, programs, and events

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
http://www.sipri.se/
Includes working papers, press releases, speeches, and lectures

Texas A&M University. Public Policy Research Institute.
Homeland Security: Disaster and Emergency Management Information Network (DEMIN)
http://ccs.tamu.edu/homeland_security/index_home.html
A database of domestic security and emergency management data and bibliographic resources

World Policy Institute
http://www.worldpolicy.org/
Part of the New School University, the institute “ seeks to offer innovative policy proposals for public debate with the goal of developing an internationalist consensus on the measures needed for the management of a world market economy, the development of a workable system of collective security, and the creation of an active transnational civil society.”   Online resources include The World Policy Journal.

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