Institute Thomas More

Institute Thomas More
founded in the year	2003
City	Brüssel
Country	Belgium
Website	http://www.thomasmoreinstitute.org.uk/
address	Büro in Brüssel: Rue de La Fauvette, 92, B-1180, Brüssel
Networks	Stockholm Network, Think Tank
Virtual Networks A "Virtual Network" is a group of Think Tanks identified by certain semantic and normative (ideological) commonalities (e.g. climate change scepticism). Such a virtual network constitutes a research field that differs from the study of formal networks. Formal networks are real in the sense of officially acknowledged and immediately open to empirical validation. Virtual networks on the other hand display shared ideas. Social network analysis tools can be applied to find out if or to what extent virtual networks are real networks that display linkages (membership in networks, personnel, resources etc.). Unconnected think tanks in turn can be considered special cases in need of explanation independent from network structures (unless we have to assume invisible, hidden or covered ties).	Austerity politics
Last revision	9.06.2015

Organizational Structure and Funding

Address

• Büro in Brüssel: Rue de La Fauvette, 92, B-1180, Brüssel

People

Advisory board

People advising the Think Tank (mainly in scientific questions)

• Jean-Pierre Schaeken Willemaers

• Marwan Lahoud

• Paul Goldschmidt

• Hervé Mariton

• Chantal Delsol

• Xavier Fontanet

• Rémi Brague

• Gérard Dussillol

• Gérard-François Dumont

• Sébastien Aguettant

• Charles Beigbeder

• Françoise Thom

• Salomé Zourabichvili

• Wolfgang Glomb

• Michael Von Liechtenstein

• Sabine Roux De Bézieux

• Élisabeth Lefebvre

• Leopold D’Arenberg

• Anne Coffinier

Supervisory board

People supervising the Think Tank (mainly in economic questions).

• Michael Von Liechtenstein

• Jacques Barbier

• Robert Gillespie of Blackhall

• Philippe Maze-Sencier

• Christian Boon Falleur

• Daniel Durca

• Stéphane Buffetaut

• Amaury Nardone

• Enguerrand Delannoy

• Christiane de Livonniere

• Jean-Thomas Lesueur

• Pascal de Roubaix

• Marwan Lahoud

• Philippe de Noüel

• Georges van Erck

• Charles Thibaut de Maisieres

• Charles Millon

Experts

Experts are not permanently employed at the Think Tank. They are paid for contract research when their expertise is needed. Some Think Tanks call a database of hundred or even more experts their own.

• Michel Vaté , Expert

• Jean-Baptiste Buffet, Expert

• Jérôme Pigné, Expert

• Marc Nabeth, Expert

• Jean-Sylvestre Mongrenier, Expert

• Alban Girard, Expert

• Anna Kuzmina, Expert

• Jean-Pierre Schaeken-willemaers, Expert

• Jakob Höber, Expert

• Gérard Dussillol, Expert

• Patrick Sevaistre, Expert

• Frédéric Bizard, Expert

• Paul Goldschmidt, Expert

• Jean-Thomas Lesueur, Expert

• Antonin Tisseron, Expert

• Emmanuel Dubois de prisque, Expert

• Olivier Pinot de villechenon, Expert

• Nicolas Franchinard, Expert

Topics

We used the DGs of the EU to generate a basic list of topics. This list is going to be steadily extended. However we try to preserve a persistent list of topics.

Semantic Fields

What we call here a semantic field is the idea to categorize think tanks in a two level system. The first levels are so called 'Virtual Networks' and the second are the semantic fields. Accordingly every semantic field entered here has to be attached to a virtual network. If you would like to follow a special phenomenon among think tanks please contact us and we are going to add a new virtual network. Semantic fields are topics that promote a virtual network. Lets take climate change as an example: 'climate change skeptics' is the virtual network and 'adaption instead of mitigation' would be one possible semantic field.

• Austerity measures (Austerity Politics): Arguments for austerity measures such as lower work costs, increasing retirement age