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Think Tanks - Index

Top Think Tanks World Wide:
1. Brookings Institution (United States) www.brookings.edu
2. Chatham House (United Kingdom) : www.chathamhouse.org
3. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (United States)  www.carnegieendowment.org
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a unique global network of policy research centers in Russia, China, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. Our mission, dating back more than a century, is to advance the cause of peace through analysis and development of fresh policy ideas and direct engagement and collaboration with decisionmakers in government, business, and civil society. Working together, our centers bring the inestimable benefit of multiple national viewpoints to bilateral, regional, and global issues.
4. Center for Strategic and International Studies (United States) : http://csis.org
5. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) (Sweden):  www.sipri.org 
6. Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) (United States) http://csis.org
7. RAND Corporation (United States): www.rand.org
8. International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) (United Kingdom) : https://www.iiss.org/

Think Tanks in Pakistan:
  1. Center for Research and Security Studies
  2. Pak Institute of Peace Studies (PIPS) ; http://www.san-pips.com
  3. Citizens' Group on Electoral Process
  4. Gallup Pakistan
  5. Institute of Policy Studies(Pakistan)
  6. Institute of Regional Studies 
  7. Professional Research & Advisory Council
  8. Social Policy and Development Centre
  9. Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
  10. Pakistan Institute of International Affairs  
  11. Takmeel e Pakistan: Syed Zaid Zaman Hamid
  12. Pakistan Institute of National Affairs
  13. Directory of Pakistani Think Tanks
Indian Think Tanks:
Five Indian thinktanks have made it to the list of top 150 worldwide. At rank 50 is Centre for Civil Society (CCS), at 102 is Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), at 107 is The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) followed by Observer Research Foundation (ORF) at 114 and Development Alternatives (DA) at 140:
  1. Centre for Civil Society (CCS)
  2. Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)
  3. The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
  4. Observer Research Foundation (ORF)
  5. Development Alternatives (DA) 
Top 10 most influential think tanks in China: