Friday, March 21, 2014

Think Tank Quickies (#115)

  • Secretive Pentagon think tank knows no bounds.
  • Think tank director at CER: US and EU think tank failed to predict Russian takeover of Crimea.
  • Nominees for 2014 Chatham House Prize announced.
  • Recommendations of six think tanks on Iran, via National Security Network.
  • When think tanks are in the tank: Pressured to tow the White House line at CAP?
  • CAP urges President Obama to reject Keystone XL pipeline.
  • Former AEI scholar David Frum, who now sits on the boards of US think tank R Street and UK think tank Policy Exchange, named Senior Editor at The Atlantic. 
  • Cheng Li named Director of the John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings. 
  • William Wilson, former Chief Economist at Ernst & Young, tapped as Senior Research Fellow at Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center.
  • AEI Adjunct Scholar Ioana Petrescu to become Romania's next Finance Minister.