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BESA Center Again Ranked Top Mideast Think Tank

By January 27, 2014

The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies has again been ranked one of the top ten think tanks in the Middle East and North Africa by the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program at the University of Pennsylvania.

The other think tanks in the Middle East ranked high were the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies (Egypt), Brookings Doha Center (Qatar), Center for Economics and Policy Studies (Turkey), Carnegie Middle East Center (Lebanon), Institute for National Security Studies (Israel), Al Jazeera Centre for Studies (Qatar), Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (Turkey), Gulf Research Center (Saudi Arabia), and Arab Thought Forum (Jordan).

Other Israeli think tanks ranked highly were the Harry S. Truman Institute for Advancement of Peace in Jerusalem (#17), Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies in Tel Aviv (#20), International Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya (#31), and the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (#40).

Over the past 20 years, the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies has produced over 250 original policy papers and 25 best-selling books, including the recent Arab Spring? (Yediot Ahronot and Routledge, 2013). It has run more than 300 symposia for defense, military industry, intelligence and foreign policy specialists, as well as diplomats, businessmen, academics and politicians. Eight times over the past 20 years, Benjamin Netanyahu has chosen the BESA Center podium as the venue from which to elucidate his key diplomatic policies, both as Opposition Leader and Prime Minister.

Download the 2013 Global Go To Think Tank Index.

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