Think Tank Links
One key function of the Policy Planning Staff is to act as the State Department's liaison to the think tank community. Below are listed, in alphabetical order, links to a number of think tanks and research institutions whose work on all aspects of foreign policy, we at Policy Planning have found particularly useful.
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
American Foreign Policy Council
Arms Control Association
Asia Society
Aspen Institute
Atlantic Council of the United States
The Brookings Institution
Canadian Institute of International Affairs
Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies
Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The Cato Institute
Center for Defense Information
Center for Global Development
Center for Global Security Research
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Center for the Study of Intelligence
Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales
Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute
Clingendael
Council on Foreign Relations
Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Auswaertige Politik
East-West Institute
Eisenhower Institute
Federation of American Scientists
Foreign Policy Association
Foreign Policy Research Institute
Freedom House
German Marshall Fund of the United States
Henry L. Stimson Center
The Heritage Foundation
Hudson Institute
Institut Francais des Relations Internationales
Institute for International Economics
Institute for Policy Studies
Inter-American Dialogue
International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development
International Crisis Group
International Institute for Strategic Studies
International Peace Academy
Lexington Institute
Middle East Media Research Institute
National Bureau of Asian Research
National Defense University
Naval War College
New America Foundation
Nixon Center
Pacific Council on International Policy
RAND
Royal Institute of International Affairs
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
Strategic Studies Institute, Army War College
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
World Economic Forum
World Policy Institute
United States Institute of Peace | 
