Think Tank Quickies (#119)
- SIPRI says that military spending continues to fall in the West but rises everywhere else. World military expenditures totaled $1.75 trillion in 2013.
- Advisory Council announced for Hutchins Center for Fiscal and Monetary Policy at Brookings.
- Qi Ye named Director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center (BTC) for Public Policy.
- Heritage Foundation hires John Mitnick as General Counsel.
- Charles Lake (Aflac), Phillipa McCrostie (EY), and former World Bank President Robert Zoellick named to Board of Directors at PIIE.
- CSIS hosts video conference with President Ma Ying-jeou of Taiwan.
- Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel among those receiving Atlantic Council Honors; John Herbst, former Ambassador to Ukraine and Uzbekistan, named Director of Eurasia Center at ACUS.
- Wilson Center: Will a Mouse Find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?
- Wilson Center's Asia Program to work with Japan's Waseda University.
- Future Tense - a partnership of New America Foundation (NAF), Arizona State University, and Slate magazine - and Tsinghua University, launch new US-China Green Electronics Competition.
