Carnegie Council Ranked Among Top Twenty Think Tanks in USA

NEW YORK, Jan. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- According to the "2012 Global Go To Think Tank Index," Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs ranks number 19 in the list of 55 top think tanks in the United States.  

Prepared by the University of Pennsylvania's Think Tanks Civil Societies Program, this annual index is the authoritative ranking of the world's top think tanks and is based on a global survey of scholars, policymakers, journalists, and regional and subject area experts.

Carnegie Council ranked number 32 in 2010 and 29 in 2011.

To see the full report, go to http://www.gotothinktank.com/2012-global-goto-tank-index-report/.

Founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1914, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs is an educational, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that produces lectures, publications, and multimedia materials on the ethical challenges of living in a globalized world.

Most of the Council's output is available free of charge online. Recent multimedia products include:

Political scientist Ian Bremmer on top risks for 2013 (Ethics Matter series)

Ambassador Seyed Hossein Mousavian on U.S.-Iran relations (U.S. Global Engagement program)

Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka on Nigeria and Mali (Public Affairs program)    

Global Voices cofounder Rebecca MacKinnon on our digital lives (Thought Leaders series)

Other resources from Carnegie Council:

Ethics & International Affairs, quarterly journal published by Cambridge University Press

Policy Innovations online magazine       

Global Ethics Network social media platform

iTunesU multimedia supplement to best-selling textbook, "World Politics: Trend and Transformation:" www.ir101.org/kb

For all this and more, go to www.carnegiecouncil.org.

Contact:
Madeleine Lynn
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
(212) 838-4120 ext. 219
[email protected] 

SOURCE Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs