Think Tank Quickies #80
- World's think tanks increasing attention towards Azerbaijan; 1st Forum of Think Tanks of Member States of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) kicks off in Baku.
- Stimson Center launches website for Indo-Pak dialogue.
- RAND Corp. study evaluates airpower options for Syria intervention.
- Frederick Pardee, a former RAND researcher, contributes $3.6 million to support the Pardee RAND Graduate School and to create its Pardee Initiative for Global Human Progress.
- Former Principal Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Kathleen Hicks named CSIS Senior Vice President, Kissinger Chair, and International Security Program Director.
- Marc Jarsulic, former chief economist of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, named CAP's Vice President for Economic Policy.
- James Hasik becomes new Nonresident Senior Fellow for Defense with the Atlantic Council's Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security.
- George Lopez appointed to lead USIP's Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding.
- New America Foundation (NAF) has a new magazine: The Weekly Wonk.
- Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK): "I pay no attention to Heritage Action...it is destroying the Republican Party."
