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 US 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