2020 Top Think Tanks in Central Asia

User icon Carolina Tobon
7 November 2021
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The Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) of the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania conducts research on the role policy institutes play in governments and civil societies around the world. TTCSP produces the annual Global Go To Think Tank Index that ranks the world’s leading think tanks in a number of categories. This list contains leading institutions in Central Asia and the Caucasus region (Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan).


CRRC-Georgia: Caucasus Research Resource Center
KazISS: Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies
AKF: Aga Khan Foundation
CERR: Center for Economic Research and Reforms
AREU: Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
ERI: Economic Research Institute
CIPDD: Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development
ACNIS: Armenian Center for National and International Studies
IPS: Institute for Policy Studies