Terrorexpertise:Terrorism Industry and Major World Newspapers
Below is a list of the 50 think-tanks and private research institutes involved in terrorism research estimated to be most influential within the mainstream media.
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. ‘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. This yielded a list of 110 unique institutions.
Each of these institutions were then searched at LexisNexis's Major World Newspapers group[1] for items published between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2007. The search included the name of the institution as well as any reference to 'terrorism', 'terrorist' or variations of the phrase 'suicide bomb'[2]. The 50 most commonly cited institutions are reproduced in the table below in descending order of the number of items returned.
Terrorism Institutes ranked according to Major World Newspaper citations
| Institution | Search term used | Approx. no. pages returned | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amnesty International | (Amnesty International) | 4,650 |
| 2 | Human Rights Watch | (Human Rights Watch) | 3,506 |
| 3 | Brookings Institution | (Brookings Institution) | 2,712 |
| 4 | Council on Foreign Relations | (Council on Foreign Relations) | 2,225 |
| 5 | Center for Strategic and International Studies | (Center for Strategic and International Studies) | 2,193 |
| 6 | International Crisis Group | (International Crisis Group) | 1,607 |
| 7 | American Enterprise Institute | (American Enterprise Institute) | 1,468 |
| 8 | RAND Corporation | (RAND Corporation) | 1,009 |
| 9 | Cato Institute | (Cato Institute) | 811 |
| 10 | Chatham House | (Chatham House) OR (Royal Institute of International Affairs) | 719 |
| 11 | International Institute for Strategic Studies | (International Institute for Strategic Studies) | 697 |
| 12 | Hoover Institution (Stanford University) | (Hoover Institution) | 582 |
| 13 | Washington Institute for Near East Policy | (Washington Institute for Near East Policy) | 549 |
| 14 | Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies | (Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies) | 532 |
| 15 | Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies | (Royal United Services Institute) | 487 |
| 16 | Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence | (Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence) | 415 |
| 17 | Centre for Strategic and International Studies | (Centre for Strategic and International Studies) W/S (Jakarta) OR (Indonesia) | 313 |
| 18 | SITE Institute | (SITE Institute) | 438 |
| 19 | United States Institute of Peace | (United States Institute of Peace) | 284 |
| 20 | Middle East Forum | (Middle East Forum) | 240 |
| 21 | New America Foundation | (New America Foundation) | 208 |
| 22 | Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies | (Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies) | 182 |
| 23 | Foundation for the Defense of Democracies | (Foundation for the Defense of Democracies) | 171 |
| 24 | MacKenzie Institute | (MacKenzie Institute) | 168 |
| 25 | Jane Information Group | (Jane Information Group) | 129 |
| 26 | Oxford Research Group | (Oxford Research Group) | 116 |
| 27 | Kroll Associates | (Kroll Associates) | 112 |
| 28 | Foreign Policy Centre | (Foreign Policy Centre) | 104 |
| 29 | Gilbert & Tobin Centre of Public Law (University of South Wales) | (Gilbert and Tobin Centre of Public Law) | 104 |
| 30 | Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs | (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) | 99 |
| 31 | Investigative Project | (Investigative Project) | 98 |
| 32 | International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research | (Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research) | 92 |
| 33 | Foreign Policy Research Institute | (Foreign Policy Research Institute) | 87 |
| 34 | Jamestown Foundation | (Jamestown Foundation) | 80 |
| 35 | Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies | (Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies) | 79 |
| 36 | Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies (Johns Hopkins University) | (Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies) | 75 |
| 37 | Kissinger Associates | (Kissinger Associates) | 73 |
| 38 | Defence Academy | (Defence Academy) | 69 |
| 39 | Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs | (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs) | 61 |
| 40 | Combating Terrorism Center (West Point Military Academy) | (Combating Terrorism Center) | 60 |
| 41 | Independent Institute | (The Independent Institute) | 60 |
| 42 | Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies | (Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies) | 59 |
| 43 | Australian Homeland Security Research Centre | (Australian Homeland Security Research Centre) | 56 |
| 44 | Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy | (Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy) | 54 |
| 45 | Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism | (Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism) | 52 |
| 46 | Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism | (Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism) | 51 |
| 47 | Gulf Research Center | (Gulf Research Center) | 49 |
| 48 | Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs | (Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs) | 48 |
| 49 | Committee on the Present Danger | (Committee on the Present Danger) | 43 |
| 50 | British American Security Information Council | (British American Security Information Council) | 41 |
Notes
- ↑ The LexisNexis Major World Newspapers group file which was used for the search contains over 40 full-text newspapers from around the world. According to LexisNexis the papers included “are generally regarded by the reading public as those giving the most comprehensive and reliable coverage”. A full list of the sources is below.
Major World Newspapers Sources
- ABIX - Australasian Business Intelligence
- Asia Africa Intelligence Wire - Selected Publications
- Belfast Telegraph
- Brisbane News
- BRW Abstracts (Australia)
- Business Day (South Africa)
- Countryman
- Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday
- Daily News (New York)
- Daily Record & Sunday Mail
- Daily Telegraph & Sunday Telegraph (Sydney)
- Financial Mail (South Africa)
- Financial Post Investing
- Financial Times
- Global News Wire
- Herald Sun & Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne)
- Het Financieele Dagblad (English)
- Hobart Mercury/Sunday Tasmanian
- INEWS/ITHSUN
- INEWS/THESUN
- Information Bank Abstracts
- International Herald Tribune
- Kiplinger Publications
- Korea Herald
- Korea Times
- Los Angeles Times (most recent 6 months)
- Mainichi Daily News
- Miami Herald
- Moscow News
- National Post
- Newsday (most recent 6 months)
- New Straits Times (Malaysia)
- Northern Territory News (Australia)
- South China Morning Post
- Sunday Times (South Africa)
- Sunday Tribune
- The Advertiser/Sunday Mail (Australia)
- The Age (Melbourne, Australia)
- The Australian
- The Australian Financial Review Abstracts
- The Boston Globe
- The Business
- The Business Times Singapore
- The Canberra Times
- The Courier Mail and The Sunday Mail (Australia)
- The Daily and Sunday Telegraph (London)
- The Daily Star and Sunday Star
- The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo)
- The Dominion (Wellington)
- The Dominion Post (Wellington)
- The Express
- The Express - Most Recent Two Weeks
- The Globe and Mail (Canada)
- The Guardian (London)
- The Herald (Glasgow)
- The Independent and Independent on Sunday (London)
- The Irish Times
- The Japan Times
- The Jerusalem Post
- The Jerusalem Report
- The Kalgoorlie Miner
- The Mirror and The Sunday Mirror
- The Moscow Times
- The Nation (Thailand)
- The News of the World
- The New York Times
- The New York Times - Biographical Materials
- The New York Times - Government Biographical Materials
- The New Zealand Herald
- The Observer
- The Philadelphia Inquirer
- The Prague Post
- The Press (Christchurch)
- The Scotsman & Scotland on Sunday
- The Straits Times (Singapore)
- The Sun
- The Sunday Express
- The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
- The Times & Sunday Times
- The Toronto Star
- The Toronto Sun
- The Washington Post
- The Washington Post Biographical Stories
- The Washington Times
- The West Australian
- USA Today
- Wall Street Journal Abstracts
- Xtreme Information
- ↑ The specific details of the search are as follows: General Search - Major World Newspapers (English) [Name of Institution] AND terrorism OR terrorist OR suicide bomb* and DATE(>=2000-01-01 and <=2007-12-01)
