Theoretical perspectives on think tanks in the European Union

The complex nature of the European Union has mainly been theorized through the governance process. In a global perspective, the concept of governance refers to an interdependence between State and non-State actors. The aim of this article is to investigate theoretical perspectives about actions of think tanks in a governance process. I shall be focused on think tanks, analyzed as knowledge organizations. Therefore this article shall investigate the stratégies developped by think tanks in order to create a power dependency in the European governance.