Measuring the influence of think tanks and the military industrial complex on us foreign policy : (comparative study)‎ after 9 2001

Abstract EN

After the globalization era, the world is affronting a huge complex relations, interference, and interactions, in which the environment is characterized by danger and opportunity.

The genre of the Nation-State has shifted and policy making process has given the opportunity to other socio-political players to be more interacted and influential, those socio political players are NGOs, Think tanks, lobby groups… those groups gained a great opportunity to be part of decision making process, engaging in the public debate concerning security, education, law, economy.

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etc this study highlights the role of two major non-governmental actors in the US foreign policy making.

The US foreign policy has been affected by different governmental and non-governmental actors, which compete with each other in order to have a deep influence on US decision making regarding different issues in different regions.

Therefore, the US foreign policy reflects the interests of many actors; this study focuses on two main actors, which are the think tanks and the military industrial complex, because for a long time these two actors tried to influence the US foreign policy by various means and mechanisms.

Moreover, each of them has distinct mechanisms and varying degrees of influence, therefore, the study aims to identify and to measure the power of think tanks and the military industrial complex on this process.