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THINK TANKS ARE INDEPENDENT, OR PRIVATE, POLICY RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS PRESENT IN INCREASING NUMBERS AROUND THE WORLD. MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, THINK TANKS ARE ESTABLISHED AS NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS. WHEN THEY OPERATE INTERNATIONALLY, THEY ARE USUALLY CATEGORIZED AS NON-STATE ACTORS IN GLOBAL AND REGIONAL POLITICS. THIS ESSAY ADDRESSES WHETHER OR NOT THE NON-PROFIT FORM IS ADVANTAGEOUS TO THINK TANKS WHEN COMPETING AT TRANSNATIONAL LEVELS IN A BATTLE OF IDEAS TO INFLUENCE STATES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS. IT EXAMINES THE TRANSNATIONALIZATION OF THINK TANK ACTIVITY AND THE MANNER IN WHICH THESE ORGANIZATIONS RESPOND TO EMERGING SOURCES OF DEMAND IN GLOBAL AND REGIONAL ARENAS. IT IS LESS FOCUSED ON THE ISSUE OF THINK TANK INFLUENCE, AND MORE CONCERNED WITH THE PRIOR QUESTION AS TO WHY THESE ORGANIZATIONS BECOME ESTABLISHED AND SPREAD TO BECOME A PART OF GLOBAL SOCIETY.

THE AUTHOR TRACES ANTHONY MARIO LUDOVICI'S IDEOLOGY FROM ITS ROOTS IN NIETZCHE AND EDWARDIAN POLITICS THROUGH THE RANGE OF HIS INTELLECTUAL AND POLITICAL PURSUITS OVER THE DECADES UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1971. HE ARGUES THAT LUDOVICI'S THINKING MOVED BROM BEING ON THE FRINGES OF MAINSTREAM BEFORE 1914 TO EXTREMIST AND OUTCAST BY THE POST-1945 PERIOD. NOT ONLY DOES LUDOVICI DEMONSTRATE THAT BRITISH EXTREMISM DID NOT SIMPLY LOOK TO THE CONTINENT FOR INSPIRATION, HE SHOWS THAT STUBBORNLY CLINGING TO IDEAS WHICH INITIALLY FUELLED THE BRITISH FAR-RIGHT ALSO ULTIMATELY BROUGHT ABOUT ITS DEMISE.

Provides an initial classification of think tanks or, to be more precise, independent policy planning institutes. The defining features of policy institutes are established and a classification of IPPIs is built and applied selectively against some think-tanks. Investigates how the different characteristics of think-tanks, and their operating environment, impinge on their potential as agents of policy influence. (SJK)