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Introduction: Think tanks, policy advice and governance / Diane Stone -- pt. 1. The international dimension. Institutes of international affairs: their roles in foreign policy-making, opinion mobilization and unofficial diplomacy / Inderjeet Parmar -- Think tanks beyond nation-states / Diane Stone -- European Union think tanks: generating ideas, analysis and debate / Heidi Ullrich -- pt. 2. European think tank traditions. Think tanks in Germany / Martin Thunert -- Italy: think tanks and the political system / Sonia Lucarelli and Claudio M. Radaelli -- French think tanks in comparative perspective / Catherine Fieschi and John Gaffney -- Think tanks, post communism and democracy in Russia and Central and Eastern Europe / Mark Sandle -- pt. 3. Think tanks in democratic development and economic transition. The Chinese tradition of policy research institutes / Ming-Chen Shai with Diane Stone -- Think tanks in Japan: a new alternative / Makiko Ueno -- Think tanks and Malaysian development / Su-ming Khoo -- Think tanks in developing countries: lessons from Argentina / Miguel Braun, Antonio Cicioni and Nicolas J. Ducote -- pt. 4. The Anglo-American tradition. The business of ideas: the think tank industry in the USA / Donald E. Abelson -- A 'hollowed-out' tradtion? British think tanks in the twenty-first century / Andrew Denham and Mark Garnett -- Australian think tanks / Ian Marsh and Diane Stone -- Three decades of Canadian think tanks: evolving institutions, conditions and strategies / Evert A. Lindquist -- Afterword: soft power, global agendas / William Wallce -- Appendix: think tanks and their web sites / Diane Stone.