The Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program ( TTCSP ) was a non-profit program at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , that operated from 1989 to 2021. TTCSP was originally established at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in 1989. The director was James McGann . The program conducted research on policy institutes around the world, and maintained a database of over 8,200 think tanks from across the world.
6-789: The TTCSP was established at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in 1989. It began with its focus on think tanks in the US. In the 1990s, the program became increasingly global as a result of the political and economic transformation that took place in Central and Eastern Europe. R. Kent Weaver of the Brookings Institution and James McGann of the Foreign Policy Research Institute were asked to help conceptualize what became
12-464: Is an American think tank based in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, that conducts research on geopolitics , international relations , and international security in the various regions of the world and on ethnic conflict, U.S. national security, terrorism, and on think tanks themselves. It publishes a quarterly journal, Orbis , and a series of monographs, books, and electronic newsletters. FPRI
18-858: Is based on a three-phase survey whose participants include politicians, scientists, think tank donors, and think tanks. However, this method of the study and assessment of policy institutes has been criticized by researchers such as Enrique Mendizabal and Goran Buldioski, Director of the Think Tank Fund, assisted by the Open Society Institute . In 2018, this Index listed US the country with the largest number of Think Tanks (1871), followed by India (509), China (507), UK (321), Argentina (227), Germany (218), Russia (215), France (203), Japan (128), Italy (114), Brazil (103), Canada (100), South Africa (93). Foreign Policy Research Institute The Foreign Policy Research Institute ( FPRI )
24-840: The Global Development Network , a World Bank sponsored conference in Barcelona, Spain . This resulted in the publication Think Tanks and Civil Societies: Catalysts for Ideas and Action in 2000. In 2008, the TTCSP moved to the International Relations Program at the University of Pennsylvania. McGann and the Program published the annual Global Go To Think Tank Index . As of 2010, the Index
30-618: The end of the Cold War , the institute has focused on education in international affairs, sponsoring various programs in Philadelphia-area schools as well as conferences and seminars for high school and junior college teachers and lectures for the general public. FPRI manages and sponsors several divisions and programs, including its Program on National Security (chaired by John Lehman Jr.); its Asia Program (directed by Michael Beckley and chaired by Jacques deLisle); its Program on
36-809: Was founded by Ambassador Robert Strausz-Hupé , a Vienna native who immigrated to the United States in 1923. Dissatisfied with the containment strategy of John Foster Dulles and the Eisenhower administration 's foreign policy in general, Strausz-Hupé founded FPRI in 1955 with support from the University of Pennsylvania , an Ivy League university in Philadelphia, and the Smith Richardson Foundation . In 1957, FPRI began publishing Orbis , its quarterly journal. Since
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