Monday, April 8, 2013

Think Tank Quickies #51

  • On what former NAF President Steve Coll will bring to his new job at Columbia U.
  • Anne-Marie Slaughter will take over as NAF's new president effective Sept. 1, 2013.  Rachel White, Executive VP and Director of External Relations will serve as Interim President in the meantime.
  • Currency War author James Rickards discusses think tank participants in Pentagon's 1st ever financial war games.
  • Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) to speak at Cato University 2013. 
  • Atlantic Council's Iran Task Force calls for Iran outreach.
  • CFR President Richard Haass's new book: "Foreign Policy Begins at Home."
  • With only 108, Japanese think tanks "underrepresented." 
  • Who is responsible for a think tank's influence? 
  • Margaret Thatcher, "Patron" of The Heritage Foundation, dies.