Terrorexpertise:Terrorism Industry and the UK Government List
Below is a list of the 25 think-tanks and private research institutes estimated to be most influential with the UK Government.
Methodology
The list was compiled by first of all compiling a list of all the institutions directly affiliated with the 100 experts from the Major World Newspapers List. This yielded a list of 110 unique institutions. ‘Direct affiliation’ was construed as meaning employment or appointment in an institution, excluding looser affiliations such as personal or social connections, partnership on particular projects, or contractual work. Affiliations to universities, government institutions or the media were not included in this list.
Each of these 111 institutions were then ‘Googled’ at http//www.Google.co.uk for webpages in the UK with a government URL address. The number of results returned, as well as the specific search terms used, are set out in the table below.
Terrorism Institutes ranked according to influence with UK Government
| 1 | Chatham House | "Chatham House" OR "Royal Institute of International Affairs" inurl:.gov | 9,980 |
| 2 | Amnesty International | "Amnesty International" inurl:.gov | 8,040 |
| 3 | Human Rights Watch | "Human Rights Watch" inurl:.gov | 975 |
| 4 | Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies | "Royal United Services Institute" inurl:.gov | 471 |
| 5 | Brookings Institution | "Brookings Institution" inurl:.gov | 389 |
| 6 | International Crisis Group | "International Crisis Group" inurl:.gov | 335 |
| 7 | Defence Academy | Defence Academy | 251 |
| 8 | Risk Management Solutions | "Risk Management Solutions" inurl:.gov | 217 |
| 9 | Foreign Policy Centre | "Foreign Policy Centre" inurl:.gov | 205 |
| 10 | Council on Foreign Relations | "Council on Foreign Relations" inurl:.gov | 165 |
| 11 | International Institute for Strategic Studies | "International Institute for Strategic Studies" inurl:.gov | 139 |
| 12 | RAND Corporation | "RAND Corporation" inurl:.gov | 119 |
| 13 | Centre for Strategic and International Studies | "Centre for Strategic and International Studies" inurl:.gov | 107 |
| 14 | Risk Advisory Group | "Risk Advisory Group" inurl:.gov | 96 |
| 15 | Boston Consulting Group | "Boston Consulting Group" inurl:.gov | 87 |
| 16 | Hoover Institution | "Hoover Institution" inurl:.gov | 56 |
| 17 | Oxford Research Group | "Oxford Research Group" inurl:.gov | 56 |
| 18 | Ditchley Foundation | "Ditchley Foundation" inurl:.gov | 54 |
| 19 | American Enterprise Institute | "American Enterprise Institute" inurl:.gov | 41 |
| 20 | United States Institute of Peace | "U.S. Institute of Peace" OR "United States Institute of Peace" inurl:.gov | 41 |
| 21 | Cato Institute | "Cato Institute" inurl:.gov | 32 |
| 22 | Jane’s Information Group | "Jane’s Information Group" inurl:.gov | 26 |
| 23 | Center for Strategic and International Studies | "Center for Strategic and International Studies" inurl:.gov | 19 |
| 24 | Independent Institute | "The Independent Institute" inurl:.gov | 18 |
| 25 | AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies | "AEI-Brookings Joint Center" inurl:.gov | 16 |
