Think Tank Watch: Covering The Think Tank Scene in the United States and Beyond. Specializing in Think Tank News and Gossip.
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Seems an interesting new think tank has started in the UK focussed on metascience and making a better science. Founded by two Cambridge graduate students-great sign.
Change will come from new generation, not status quo institutions.
@BetterScienceUK
betterscience.co.uk
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For our new 'Spotlight on Think Tanks' blog series, we'll be exploring how think tanks are influencing policy, one country at a time.
In the first of these posts, we're looking at the picture in the UK👇
blog.overton.io/spotlight-uk…
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Leaked Council on Foreign Relations members-ballot reveals the influential think tank is poised to appoint Jim Taiclet, CEO of the world’s largest weapons company, Lockheed Martin, to its board.
CFR isn’t answering ?s re: potential conflicts of interest. responsiblestatecraft.org/20…
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The Board of Trustees of IISS, chaired by @bill_emmott, is delighted to announce that following a global search it has appointed Dr Bastian Giegerich as the next Director-General and Chief Executive of the IISS.
Dr Giegerich will assume the role on 1 October 2023, in succession to @chipmanj who will move to a newly created part-time post as Executive Chairman of the IISS.
Read the announcement in full. iiss.org/press/2023/05/appoi…
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The shifting narrative themes of global think tanks tells you a lot about the world. #narrativeintelligence #thinktanks
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🪧 Ever wonder what #China's intellectual elites are reading?
Here are the top 4 books under the theme "global race for #chips" recommended by CICIR – one of China's most influential think tanks:
(Hint... Their top choice is from an 🇺🇸 author and is a best seller in the West)
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In the 1960s, the founders of the Hudson Institute think tank attempted to predict the 21st century. Count how many things they got wrong six decades ago—and how many aspects of our world they got amazingly right.
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In the service of "financial transparency," the @AtlanticCouncil lists its donors on its website, including:
▶️Anonymous: $250k-$500k
▶️Anonymous: $250k-$500k
▶️Anonymous: $250k-$500k
▶️Anonymous: $50k-$100k
▶️Anonymous: $50k-$100k
▶️Anonymous: $10k-$25k atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth…
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The IISS Trustees and Dr Chipman have agreed a succession strategy. iiss.org/press/2023/01/iiss-…
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New study reveals rampant conflicts of interest at think tanks
responsiblestatecraft.org/20… my latest for @RStatecraft #Thread 1/
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EXCLUSIVE: Classified documents from Joe Biden’s vice-presidential office were discovered by the president's personal attorneys at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank in Washington, D.C. cbsn.ws/3XcQFpw
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The head of the #FARA unit said, "think tanks could draw scrutiny if they are advocating policy positions in line with foreign governments or principals and there is an agency relationship—monetary or otherwise—between the parties."
2022 was a big year for the U.S. DOJ’s enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), though not always in ways that DOJ expected. Read MoFo's roundup of key FARA-related developments: bit.ly/3Wc3rod #DOJ #FARA
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It’s not every day you find a government document calling for @CatoInstitute employees to be charged with treason...
It seems we’ve touched a nerve.
A #CatoTrade 🧵...
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I am signing up to a German think-tank's online event, and this is a compulsory registration field.
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Find this edition and our entire archives at cato.org/regulation, or subscribe for physical copies at store.cato.org/collections/a…. And, of course, look for us on bookstore shelves!
Spotted in the wild: @CatoInstitute’s Regulation journal (@CatoRegulation), one of the few think tank products you can find at a physical bookstore these days. It was 1st published in 1977 by AEI and acquired by Cato in 1989.
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Our new president and CEO, @JasonGMatheny, is cautiously optimistic about the future of humanity.
"We're on a really good trajectory," he says, "if we can just avoid any threats to our existence." bit.ly/3bBHYmq
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A #FARA lobbyist explains his strategy of "partnering with Inside the Beltway think tanks and media organizations to create echo chambers of support that reverberate back to key policymakers." bhfs.com/people/policy/nadea…
Oh the thin line between foreign funded think tanks & #FARA
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Microsoft says “strategic espionage” by state-backed Russian hackers has targeted government agencies, think tanks, businesses and aid groups in 42 countries supporting Ukraine. Microsoft says in a report that hacking has been successful 29% of the time.
apne.ws/hiOGFiI
