Distributed Presses

The Bertelsmann Foundation in Gutersloh, Germany aims to promote innovation, to provide impetus, to bring about solutions to existing problems and allow for a more widespread discussion of important questions.

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace was established in 1910 by Andrew Carnegie. The Endowment conducts research, discussion, publication, and education programs in international affairs and American foreign policy. Activities cover a broad range of military, political, and economic issues. Carnegie is the publisher of Foreign Policy magazine.

The Center for Global Development is dedicated to reducing global poverty and inequality through policy-oriented research and active engagement on development issues.

The Center for Transatlantic Relations is an integral part of the Nitze School of Advanced Studies (SAIS) at the Johns Hopkins University. Its aim is to improve the understanding of US-EU relations.

The Centre for Economic Policy Research, based in London, is a network of over 200 research fellows, based primarily in European universities. The Centre coordinates its fellows’ research activities and communicates their results to the public and private sectors. Established in 1983, CEPR is pluralist and non-partisan, bringing economic research to bear on the analysis of medium and long-run policy questions.

The Centre for European Policy Studies, based in Brussels, is an independent policy research institute dedicated to producing sound, authoritative research leading to constructive solutions to the challenges facing Europe today. Founded in 1983, the Centre builds collaborative networks of researchers, policymakers, and business leaders across Europe and disseminates its findings through publications and public events.

The Century Foundation (formerly the Twentieth Century Fund) is a research foundation undertaking timely analyses of economic, political, and social issues. Not-for-profit and nonpartisan, it was founded in 1919 and endowed by Edward A. Filene.

Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs) was set up in 1920 as a result of discussions between the British and American delegates to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Its aim is to promote the study and understanding of all aspects of international relations.

The Committee to Protect Journalists is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization founded in 1981 to monitor abuses against the press and promote press freedom around the world. The Committee was created by a group of U.S. journalists in response to the often brutal treatment of their foreign colleagues by authoritarian governments and other enemies of independent journalism.

The Council on Foreign Relations is a nonprofit and nonpartisan membership organization dedicated to improving understanding of American foreign policy and international affairs through the free exchange of ideas. The Council takes no institutional position on issues of foreign policy. The Council publishes books, as well as the leading journal, Foreign Affairs. Designed for the interested citizen and specialist alike, the Council’s studies cover topics ranging from economics to regional conflict.

Economica, founded in 1971 and based in Paris, is a leading French publisher on economics, management, and strategy.

The Institute for the Study of the Americas, based at the School of Advanced Study of the University of London, is dedicated to the study of Latin America and North America.

The International Labor Office is the research body and publishing house of the International Labour Organization. The organization was founded in 1919 to promote social justice and, thereby, to contribute to universal and lasting peace. Its tripartite structure is unique among agencies affiliated to the United Nations: its governing body includes representatives of government, employers, and workers’ organizations.

The Jamestown Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 1984 that provides analysis of security trends in Eurasia, extending from Russia, the former Soviet Union, and into China.

The Japan Center for International Exchange, founded in 1970, is an independent, nonprofit, and nonpartisan organization dedicated to strengthening Japan's role in international networks of policy dialogue and cooperation.

The Migration Policy Institute (MPI) is an independent, nonprofit, and nonpartisan think-tank that grew out of the International Migration Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. MPI provides analysis, development, and evaluation of migration and refugee policies at the local, national, and international levels.

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) groups 29 member countries in an organization that, most importantly, provides governments a setting in which to discuss, develop, and perfect economic and social policy.

The Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University produces interdisciplinary research on Asia-Pacific issues. Its mission is to influence U.S. policy toward the region and to guide Asian nations on key issues of societal transition, development, U.S.-Asian relations, and regional cooperation.

The Trilateral Commission was formed in 1973 by private citizens of Western Europe, Japan, and North America to foster closer cooperation among these three regions on common problems. It seeks to improve public understanding of such problems, to support proposals of handling them jointly, and to nurture habits and practices of working together.

The United Nations University Press, headquartered in Tokyo, is an organ of the United Nations, established by the General Assembly in 1972 to be an international community of scholars engaged in research, advanced training, and the dissemination of knowledge related to the pressing global problems of human survival, development, and welfare.