Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The GDN and knowledge for development. The genesis of the GDN / Erik Johnson, Diane Stone
  • Scan globally, reinvent locally : knowledge infrastructure and the localisation of knowledge / Joseph Stiglitz
  • The instrumentalisation of development knowledge / Knut G. Nustad, Ole J. Sendung
  • Part II. Civil society engagement. Think tanks in independent Belarus : catalysts for social transformation / Oleg Manaev
  • New partnerships in research : activists and think tanks. An illustration from the NCAER in New Delhi / Ratna M. Sudarshan
  • Building productive partnerships for the promotion of reform : the APOYO Institute in Peru / Gabriel Ortiz de Zevallos, Alejandro Salas
  • Part III. Reform and reconstruction. The challenges of intervention for Cambodian think tanks / Kao Kim Hourn
  • Post-communist think tanks : making and faking influence / Ivan Krastev
  • Influencing government policy making / Simon James
  • Part IV. Knowledge across borders. Southeast Asian research institutes and regional cooperation / Helen E.S. Nesadurai, Diane Stone
  • Globalisation, think tanks and policy transfer / Stella Ladi
  • Think tanks and the ecology of policy inquiry / Evert Lindquist
  • Conclusion. Knowledge, power and policy / Diane Stone.