Hudson Institute

The Hudson Institute is a US think tank that "challenges conventional thinking and helps manage strategic transitions to the future through interdisciplinary and collaborative studies in defense, international relations, economics, culture, science, technology, and law." While it is officially non-partisan, it tends to be more associated with American conservatism and the U.S. Republican Party, but, regardless of ideology, it emphasizes future studies. It was founded, in 1961, by the futurist Herman Kahn.

Its public statements emphasize "In the 1970s, Hudson’s scholars helped turn the world away from the no-growth policies of the Club of Rome; in the early 1990s, we helped the newly-liberated Baltic nations become booming market economies; at home, we helped write the pioneering Wisconsin welfare reform law that became the model for successful national welfare reform in the mid-1990s. Today, as part of our research agenda, we are developing programs of political and economic reform to transform the Muslim world."